Showing posts with label Brick oven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brick oven. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Revolving Brick Oven for Pizza Franchise
Pizza Franchising or expanding to your next location will be much easier with a Revolving Brick Oven . People run into many barriers when trying to get to next level of success. There are many good reasons to use a revolving or rotating brick oven when you want that authentic stone hearth flavor and bake quality. First and foremost is the training time in a Pizza Franchise for unskilled employees. Working a regular old fashioned fixed deck brick oven requires weeks of training and months of working it to get a mastery and the ability to work a Friday night rush. With a revolving brick oven, the training is reduced to minutes with the oven doing all of the work. How can that be?
Well, on a revolving oven the pizzas are placed on the stone as it slowly revolves. Then all you have to do let them bake and remove them right at the front of the oven where you loaded it. This in contrast to needing a long pizza peel(more floor space) and having to reach in the oven. Since the floor is moving all the time it is constantly being reheated(no more oven fade-cold floor). Plus you don't have to constantly spin the pizza or move it around to cook it evenly. You don't have to have a pizza man just on the oven since he can work on the next order as the pies bake(reducing labor costs). A big reason to avoid old school brick ovens is the hot spots and cold spots that can kill your production and pizza quality. Now when you add no longer having to monitor oven temperature and not losing floor heat you get the ability to bake at incredible rates as demonstrated at Pizza Expo where the Pizza Schol of New York and friends demonstrated baking 201 pies in 52 minutes for a world record.
See why revolving ovens will make your life, Pizza Franchise and expansion much easier call 1-800 Oven 053 now!
Thursday, April 21, 2016
The Evolution of Neapolitan Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza has been around for a while and has become a big trend lately in America due the internet, food shows and the millennials desire for the latest trend and a movement for a return to foods that are more environmentally friendly. Pizza in it's most basic form is a very natural product consisting of flour, water, cheese, tomatoes and seasoning. This puts it in the category of natural when made fresh with wholesome ingredients. Unfortunately many chains in bottom dollar, high production, food control, labor and a need for a standard recipe began prepackaging pizza sauce and shipping frozen pre-stretched dough shells. Now if this is the only pizza you have ever eaten it is probably better than a TV dinner(a heat and serve dinner in an aluminum tray with compartments for things like chicken, potatoes and the ever popular cinnamon apples that was popular in the 60's and 70's). There is nothing as delicious as an artisan pizza made with fresh mozzarella, a really good tomato of the San Marzano type on a hand stretched dough and cooked at high temperature in a brick oven. Now when you add the smell of a wood fire and some tasty toppings you have a meal fit for a king or as the legend goes a queen hence the name Margarita pizza. My first taste of these incredible pizzas was as a boy growing up in Brooklyn and visiting Coney Island with my brother and grabbing a pie at Tortono's. Who knew it would inspire us to start Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza and become world champion pizza men training people from all over the world to make pizza in a revolving deck brick oven at the Pizza School New York. I really appreciate the the skill and art of a good pizza man working a brick oven. The Italians that brought the skill to America opened the door for the current artisan pizza craze in America and the explosion of great pizza places all across this country of ours. The evolution of Neapolitan pizza is our current gourmet, fast casual build your own pie trend. When my brother Scot and I began Making pizza we payed homage to the old school but put a spin on it by creating things like the "Vodka Pie" which won a national contest and became a national trend itself. Adding a semolina recipe and squares with a mushroom sauce or brandy were non-traditional ideas that we incorporated into the menu evolving the Neapolitan Pizza to what we like to call a New York Brick Oven Pie. One of the points Lead Instructor from Pizza School New York, Andrew Scudera stresses to his successful students from all over the world is to be creative, try different things and see what your customers like and incorporate local favorites into the menu. America was founded by Revolution and it will take all kinds of entrepreneurs developing their own style of pizza to compete in the ever evolving pizza market. We pay tribute to the early pioneers as we eagerly await the latest creations of our friends. Happy pizza to you. Marc Cosentino
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Who will be the Chipotle of Pizza?
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Saturday, November 7, 2015
If your starting a pizza shop-read this.
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Opinions are like
bellybuttons, everybody’s got one. The thing that always drove me crazy in
school was the teacher explaining things to me that I knew he had no experience
with and no real world understanding of. Examples are most prominent when it
comes to art or business but it applies to everything. A most recent example
was my son telling me about his class where they are starting a businesses and
the teacher was giving a class on how it is done and that a farmer may be
better to shut his farm down and start a new business if it isn’t working out on
paper. I said ” a lot easier said than done” and then I heard my son
regurgitating the teacher’s justifications for this. Makes me want to puke to
hear this holier than thou armchair quarterbacking from a guy that never ran a
successful business or even had the nerve to try to run his own show. It seems
that school has become a place where “teaching” is more important than learning
how to do something. Titles, diplomas, certifications decide who gets paid most
to talk the most. Well the real world is something a lot of people are trying
to discover and the popularity of reality TV shows is a bit of an indicator of
this. I think people in general are tired of phony “experts” and want to
see the blood and guts of life. Whether it is a successful pawn shop like the
one featured on Pawn Stars, an auto mechanic and sales place like Gas Monkey
Garage or the big players interacting with up and coming little players on
shows like Shark Tank or The Aprentice, your average Joe knows the truth
when he hears it and is tired of posers. The reason I make this statement is
that if your looking to open a business the guy teaching you how do so better
have some real world success and better not be a textbook hero who never
stepped into the arena of life. Even a guy who failed miserably can teach you a
lot about what not to do. If you want successful teachers and advice go people
like Scot Cosentino and Andrew Scudera at the Goodfella’s Pizza School New York because
THEY DID IT and have created very successful students and have helped create
very successful concepts. Statistics and actual production are the only true
measure-not words and formal titles. Can they do it? Have they taught it? Can
you see the results in the physical universe? These are your only questions and
when you have someone that can’t answer them-move on and try again. There is
lot of false data on business and the food business in general. There are
some shoddy products passing as pizza for sure but that is slowly changing as
your average customer is learning about gourmet brick oven pizza and expecting
more. Whatever it is you are endeavoring to do, know that is more than the
average guy will ever try. Stepping into the arena requires guts and daring and
a dream. Don’t dare sell yourself short by following bad or incorrect advice.
Do your homework, see what is true for you and be a big success! Happy pizza to
you.
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Friday, October 30, 2015
Of Course Fast Casual Pizza
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Along with so many new concepts arriving on the scene such as Pie Craft, Lotsa Mozza, Genaro's, Fire Pie, Revolve, Cucinova and a an ever growing list of incredible pizza places there is a trend spreading across the country for Fast Casual Pizza.
Spin
Neapolitan Pizza is a prime example of the hottest trend in the fast casual
segment. Pizza can now be prepared in a very consistent and fast manner, with
each pie individualized for the customer baked to order. This has brought pizza
to the forefront as a lunch option. In the past your only choice was to pick up
a quick slice of whatever has been laying around but those days are gone. Enter
the Chipotle concept of fast, fresh casual at a reasonable price and you can
see that the pizza industry was ripe for the picking. What was holding it back
was the long bake times and inability to produce a quality product very
quickly. Enter the brick oven and moreover, the revolving brick oven which has
taken all the great attributes of the brick oven and removed virtually all the
downside by making it easier, faster and more consistent with less skill.
Taking a great and well-loved food item such as pizza and making it so much
easier to deliver is the answer. What are the main components? A casual
environment that is trendy, a pizza assembly line where your customers can see
and choose their own toppings, a visible revolving brick oven where the pizza
man bakes the customers hand assembled pizza and gets it to him in just a
couple of minute vs. the usual 15-20 minutes for a deck oven pie. When you add
locally grown produce, organic toppings and dough made on premise each day with
a tasty recipe, it’s hard to lose.
So join the revolution and get your slice of the pie. Happy Pizza!
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
5 Top Pizza Success Tips
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There are
several areas that are key to success and while all these areas are important
any one is not the end all and be all to a successful formula. I’m sure you can
think that local chain that has the worst pizza in town and yet you see their delivery
vehicles everywhere you go. My own personal mystery was a pizza place in
Brooklyn that was run by a guy with no personality that I am sure inspired the
soup Nazi years later with his disrespect and rudeness to his customers. Aside
from the pizza makers smoking while they made pizza, he would tell you to eat
the unburnt part of the pie if you dared to complain. How about the places that
are so far off the beaten path you need a guide to find them or better yet they
have no name on the joint? You can’t make this stuff up but it gives one hope
that there is room for all of us to succeed. I want to qualify this as my own
personal opinion from working with, knowing and visiting with hundreds of pizza
men and women all over the country. By no means is this THE BIBLE OF PIZZA or
to be taken as law but it will give you a pretty good idea of what to concern
yourself with if your new to the game, stale or in deep trouble.
1) Location, Location, Location-the best
way is to be the only game in town or be in a tourist location where there are
no other options available or the ones available are of no consequence due to
being very expensive or a different and specialized category like a fish
house. Some the most successful places specialized
in malls, theme parks, schools, military bases or small town USA.
2) Make the best pizza known to man or
there about. If you are making a really top notch product people will find you
and not only that, people will talk. Word of mouth is the best advertising it
has been said. The reason for this is that people will trust the opinion of friends
and family over silly unfounded claims of the best pizza in town and such
advertised in the local paper.
3) Be unique. Examples of this are
everywhere but they may not seem apparent. Like making a Chicago pie where
there never was one, having a wood burning brick oven, using insects as a
topping or having a pizza drive through like OL Jose’s in Pineville West
Virginia where they are using a revolving brick oven.
4) Be a social maniac. Take pride in
being part of your community. Before there was social media, there were social
men and women. These wonderful people actually cared about the people they met
and considered customers as friends to share joys and sorrows with. One very
moving example of this is when people would come to Goodfella’s Pizza in Staten
Island on their way home from work in the days after 911 just to get out of the
house and be with people who cared in a friendly and safe environment. There
are many examples I can think of; like the guy who coaches the local little league,
the girl who hosts local heroes with pizza parties, the place that supports boy
scouts, the place that sponsors Special Olympics or the guys that collect
donations for slices to feed the homeless. There are so many ways to build good
will in a community and give back while earning respect and loyalty that I
could write a book about it but you get the idea.
5) Service. Run a tight ship that gives
service and shows genuine care for the customer’s experience. I don’t know
about you but when I am ignored, the host is not pleasant, the server acts like
he is doing me a favor, the table is dirty when I am seated or my unfamiliarity
with ordering and the menu is treated with impatience, you have lost me, and more
importantly, any future income my patronage may have brought. This may seem
like a given but if you are not on top of this and setting a good example for
your crew it will never happen. A little thing like a smile or help and
directions can go a long way in building a relationship with your customers.
One terrible example I won’t forget was having my little daughter with me in a
new town when she had to use a bathroom so we walked into a place and we were
treated so rudely I swore I would never visit that place. I understand the old “Bathrooms
are for paying customers” routine but sometimes being human and having
discretion can earn you a great deal of loyalty. In other words, if it isn’t
costing you anything to be kind-always be kind. Believe it or not but this also
includes salesmen wasting your time. Those salesmen are not only people but
potential customers with family and friends that also eat.
While no list
will guarantee your success, if you follow these points your odds will greatly
be increased and if you earnestly follow point 5 you will contribute to a
better world by treating your fellow citizens with courtesy. Happy pizza my friend
and best wishes.
Friday, August 21, 2015
Opening a Fast Casual Pizza Concept?
Many people
about to embark on the Fast Casual Pizza adventure are wondering should I or shouldn’t I? When
asking opinions remember that:
Opinions are
like belly buttons-everybody has one so the best advice is to do it your way
and follow your own vision. Ultimately you are the person putting in your
monies and sweat equity so being the chief cook and bottle washer gives you the
final say-good or bad.
A couple
things to look at though are as follows:
1) Does your location have enough
potential traffic to warrant a fast casual concept? In other words, is it in a
place with people that need to eat fast and (usually) inexpensively?
2) Is there a potential for foot traffic
and a lunch crowd verses a destination location that people will have to drive
up to? If they have to drive to your location, is there ample parking?
3) Is the size of the space conducive to
fast casual and laid out to facilitate easy entry? Service? Exit?
4) Do you have the proper oven and
recipes for fast production?
5) Is your potential customer base and
product in sync?
6) Do you have a trendy design?
7) Is your pizza any good or is just
something to fill up on?
8) Is your model workable without wait
staff?
If you have
already looked at these questions you are way ahead of the game and stand a
good chance of competing in the fast casual race. If you haven’t then you may
want to consider speaking to someone with experience or going out and making
the rounds to see what is and what is not working in different areas and
environments. Personally I feel that a quality product delivered in a nice
environment by a pleasant, courteous, professional staff will always find an
audience if you can promote and survive long enough for word to get out. However
most people are looking for the elusive “sure thing” which is mystical and not
real because most of the successful places have had huge research, trial and
error before they found the “formula” for success. Persistence, hard work and
the ability to think and change on your feet will get you far but following
what the big boys are doing and have already figured out will eliminate some of
the trail and hopefully most of the error. For those about to jump in the
arena-I salute you.
Here are
some places you may want to visit in your quest and some contacts you may wish
to make:
Revolve
Pizza, Blaze, Pizza Locale, Spin Neapolitan, Pie Five, Piology, Fired Pie, Fuel
Pizza, Goodfella’s Pizza School New York, Cucinova, 800 Degree, Papa Pancho,
Pizza Studio and a host of others. The reason I mention Pizza School New York
is for those who have no idea about pizza or brick oven pizza and want a first-hand
view of a live pizza operation featuring the Mack Daddy of ovens from the NewYork Brick Oven Company for training. Many roads lead to Rome but as any
tourist can tell you the easiest and simplest direction is best for strangers.
Happy Pizza! May you roll in the dough and enjoy the adventure.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
How to Stretch Pizza Dough
Pizza Stretching!
How to stretch a pizza dough is a fantastic introduction to making pizza by the New York Pizza School
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Fast Casual Comes to New Jersey with a Twist
Papa Poncho of Edison New Jersey has just opened it's doors to rave reviews from from the pizza eating community. This is evident by the lines of new patrons and the number of pizza's flying out of their "Revolving Brick Oven". That's the new twist and the center of the operation- a revolving brick oven which brings new meaning to the term Fast casual.
No doubt it's a sure winner, especially with guidance from Andrew Scudera of the World Champion Goodfella's Pizza School of New York and design hints from Scot Cosentino of the New York brick Oven Company. If your over in Edison New Jersey check it out.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Fast Casual Pizza and Revolving Brick Ovens
Friday, January 3, 2014
2014 Tips for Success -New Years Resolutions
Each year millions of people start the year with resolutions and a great many of us are quite sincere when we make them, so what happens that we don't keep them or start off strong and quit. Usually the target is unreal, meaning the person making it doesn't have the tools, information or ability to keep it. Secondly many of us charge in with fantastic enthusiasm only to hit a wall and fail.
My suggestion is make smaller incremental goals toward your overall goals. Some examples could be hiring new staff, losing 25 lbs. or writing a book. Well the first one could be overwhelming if you just fire all the dead wood and have to handle your whole business by yourself so maybe it would be a little easier to sit down and decide who needs to be replaced as a first DOABLE step. Look at overall performance and decide on one person you want to retrain(yes that is a possibility and always a first choice at Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza) or replace, then work out a plan to do that and have a win doing so. Losing weight is a killer for most because it is a slow process and requires patients and will power. Well what if you set the goal for 1 lb. in three days and then figure out exactly what you have to eliminate from your diet or where you could reduce portions to attain the goal? Once you have made the 1 lb. goal you set your sights on 2 lbs. and so forth winning as you go. Writing a book is another big target and having wrote Routine Patrol I found that years went by until my friend Dan suggested I just write what comes to mind and complete one idea or chapter. This was much easier to do and led to next and so on until I had enough material to start arranging, editing and putting it together. The small win of seeing the first chapter completed was the inspiration needed to continue. You can take this idea and apply it to any goal or project you can imagine. the key is attainable targets that lead toward your goal. Yes there will be obstacles and set back but just re-evaluate and start fresh. I wish you great health, prosperity and success in this New Year! Best wishes. Start!!!
Friday, December 6, 2013
Pizza School for the New Year!
If you have been considering making a move to the exciting world of pizza making then you should consider training for your new career with the best. The Pizza School of New York has intensive classes designed to make you a confident pizza maker regardless if you have been making pizza for years and want a fresh approach or if your band new to the game and want to see first hand what is all about. Andrew Scudera and Scot Cosentino are International Pizza Champions with several world titles between them and have been making pizza at the original world famous Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza of New York for over 20 years.
They will take you though all the steps from making the dough to cooking in their state of the art industry leading wood fired Revolving Deck Brick Oven. Not only that but you will get invaluable experience in an actual restaurant environment as opposed to the sterile and unreal environment of a classroom. You will be making great pizza within a couple days and be confident doing so.
People from all over the USA and the world have taken advantage of this rare opportunity to train under true world renown pizza men right in their own place, an experience most pizza men would tell you is invaluable when your staring out and usually have to go through the school of hard knocks with less than agreeable teachers with less than agreeable knowledge, experience or products.
They will take you though all the steps from making the dough to cooking in their state of the art industry leading wood fired Revolving Deck Brick Oven. Not only that but you will get invaluable experience in an actual restaurant environment as opposed to the sterile and unreal environment of a classroom. You will be making great pizza within a couple days and be confident doing so.
People from all over the USA and the world have taken advantage of this rare opportunity to train under true world renown pizza men right in their own place, an experience most pizza men would tell you is invaluable when your staring out and usually have to go through the school of hard knocks with less than agreeable teachers with less than agreeable knowledge, experience or products.
Aside from the pizza aspect you'll have a chance to the brain of men who have opened successful restaurants across the country and around the world, years of hard won knowledge is at your fingertips so call and book now for the new year and may you too be rolling in the dough.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Speedy Pizza from the World Champs!
How about 52 pies in 19 minutes? The guys from the original Wold Champion Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island New York demonstrate the InfernoSeries Revolving Deck Brick Oven model 140 from the New York Brick Oven Co.
As you can see from the video, you would be hard pressed to keep this oven filled for any length of time because it is that fast. More importantly it cooks each pie to perfection without having to spin the pies as they cook. This is an amazing way to save time, labor and ensure a consistent product.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Revolving Deck Brick Ovens and Hot Rod Coffee

Friday, November 1, 2013
Latest Pizza Trend: Revolving Deck Brick Ovens
The New York
Brick Oven Co. company introduces its Inferno Series Revolving Deck Brick
Ovens. Pizza has become one of the fastest growing segments in the Fast Casual market
with gourmet brick oven pizza leading the way. Industry leaders such as 3 time
International Champion Goodfella’s Brick oven Pizza of Staten Island New York
is at the forefront of this new technology, replacing their existing 8 Ft.
traditional brick oven with a revolving deck oven. Goodfella’s co-owner AndrewScudera said “This oven out produces a regular brick ovens hands down. Not only
that but it saves labor and makes a consistent product every time which is very
important in a busy place. This is the biggest innovation I have seen yet in
the pizza industry during the last 20 years”. The Inferno series comes in a
wide range of sizes and configurations to suit such places as a small pie
making bistro to a high volume location featuring pick-up and delivery in
addition to dine-in. The main draw to these new ovens is that they eliminate
the need for skilled labor to constantly rotate pizza and understand the
mechanics of cooking in a traditional fixed cooking surface brick oven. Once
the pie is placed on the rotating brick surface it spins around the oven and is
cooked completely and consistently. The innovative patented design feature of
an electric heating element below the cooking surface ensures the surface is
always hot and augments the wood or gas fire capabilities of the oven while
reducing initial start-up time to reach the ideal cooking
temperature.
Contact: New York Brick Oven Co. www.brickovensforsale.com
Monday, October 28, 2013
Revolving Deck Brick Oven is the new "Easy Bake Oven"
The New York Brick Oven Co. is offering what is now the industry leader in brick ovens with their Inferno series. Fast casual, Brick Oven, Neapolitan and traditional New York Style Pizza are all being cooked in the new Revolving Deck Brick Ovens which are super user friendly and cost effective since they do not require a skilled pizza man to work the oven, manage the temperature and constantly rotate and re-position the pies as you would have to do in a fixed cooking surface brick or deck oven. Once the pie is placed on the revolving brick cooking surface(think turntable) it slowly revolves and is cooked to perfection on all sides without any further attention. The Pizza School of New York uses one of these ovens to train it's students from around the globe on the latest trend in the pizza industry so that they can be ahead of the curve with latest technology. Look for these amazing ovens in the new fast casual pizza chains springing up across the country.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Giant slice of pizza is now the sexiest apparel.
It seems the best dressed girls are now lining up for pizza! Yes as the old saying goes " the way to man's heart is through his stomach" is now being taken to new levels. Maybe a pizza scented perfume is not that far off. One of my favorite dates was when my girl showed up at the door with a suasage and mushroom pie but maybe I'm a little predjudice having been in the pizza industryfor many years. Honestly though you can't go wrong on a first date with a fantastic pizza from a local place and if you girls are thinking about winning over a man why not ask him out yourself, even if you end up getting stuck with the bill in this politically correct era it shouldn't be too bad. For those of you lucky enough to be in the New York area you may want to check out the 3 time international pizza champs at Goodfella's In staten island afeter a romantic ride on the Staten Island Ferry and a great view of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. They have an incredible Rotating Brick Oven, full service bar and restaurant. Happy pizza.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Pizza School or How to Make Pizza 101
There are over 69,000 pizza places in America not to mention the places serving pizza such as bowling alleys, delis, convenience stores and so on. This number is easily over 100,000 with at least double that number of pizza makers. That being said it is no easy feat to make it to the top the pizza industry which has fierce competition and millions in corporate backers. When a local family place gets to such a position you can bet that it took some serious hard work and know how. Goodfella's Brick Oven Pizza on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island New York is just such a place and now they are giving you the opportunity to learn how to make the World's Best Pizza. So many people from around the world were inquiring for help in making a "better pizza" that Scot Cosentino decided he would share his hard won knowledge and start the Pizza School of New York. Here you will learn pizza. All the basics, from dough to sauce to cooking in the industry leading revolving brick oven. Gooodfella's pizza school is not some sterile artificial classroom, it is hands on, real world cooking in an actual restaurant under real world conditions. You get what it takes and see how it actually works from open to close and all the needed steps to make that perfect pizza. This is a priceless experience for any one in the industry or wanting to make pizza.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
What is pizza school?
Pizza School is a hands on way to learn how to make pizza and cook pizza taught by the pros Andrew Scudera and Scot Cosentino in an actual working restaurant. These men have personally made hundreds of thousands of pizzas over the years and are super qualified to take you through the steps from dough making to baking in an authentic brick oven. All your questions will be answered and you will be spreading the dough, making sauce and baking award winning pizza in no time flat. Not only that but you will get valuable insight as to how to run a restaurant, save time and save money. Don't try the hit or miss method and end up kicking yourself after you realize-there is a better way. Call them today and be a happy pizza maker.
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