This is the 2nd article in a series exploring Toppers’ sustainable competitive advantage In the late 90’s when tech companies were first the rage, I scribbled out a few of my own ideas for tech oriented businesses, and off-handedly told...
Pizza is the best food on earth! Unfortunately the big chains and every gas station on every corner are giving pizza a bad name. Great pizza has great fresh ingredients, is made with love and delivered fresh, the way we...
Toppers’ first and oldest franchisees are Andy and Caro Johnson. You can’t tell, but I just paused for a couple minutes and stared at that first sentence. It means a lot; they mean a lot – to me personally and...
This is our kick ass General Manager in Indianapolis representing all of us on a great TV segment. I love the way she dissed the big chains and strutted our fresh food. Thanks Holly! Toppers Pizza on WISH – Indianapolis
The first Toppers Pizza store opened on August 9, 1991. My then wife Carol and I had lived like paupers for about 8 years saving nearly everything we’d made working like dogs. We had saved $30,000, which I still have...
This is the first article in a series exploring Toppers’ sustainable competitive advantage. Growth oriented business investors study various industries and their segments for emerging growth opportunities. Even casual business observers recognize potential high growth (high risk) opportunities in emerging industries. Mammoth...
When I was little, maybe 10, my Uncle Al pulled me aside and said something like “if you want to be rich, then you shouldn’t have a family.” Yikes. I don’t remember the context of why he said that to...
From time to time someone asks me what the “key to my success” has been. I always assume they’re asking me about my success growing a thriving business, but the answer I typically give is really the reason for nearly...
It drives me crazy to sit in a long line of traffic on the highway and eventually come to the front of the line and see that it was an accident on the other side of the highway that caused...
Toppers has an ass-kicking franchisee in Minnesota that recently called me out. He told me that one of his people read something I’d written in which I claimed that we would have several hundred stores in the next few years...
