My 2016 Oscar Predictions
My crack staff and I have spent the last several weeks working through our nominees. I’m proud to announce my picks for this years Oscars. Drum Roll please…. BEST PICTURE:...
People Are The Main Ingredient
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,...
The REAL First Toppers Store
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...
Pizza IS a Growth Industry (for some)
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...
Leaders Don’t Sandbag
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...
Core Values
Toppers Pizza is incredibly special to me. I know it is the same for many of you. What makes it special is not the logo or the breadstix or the...
Restaurant Proud!
I started in the restaurant business making $2.30 per hour in 1978 when I was 15 years old. Though I studied Engineering and eventually got a degree in Psychology, I...
