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Oven Size and Throughput

Jul 16, 2012

After posting about oven size and throughput and receiving a couple of email messages with questions on how oven size impacts throughput, I had an idea — I decided to lay out a series of simple drawings that show just how many pizzas you can fit into each size oven. Here is a spreadsheet with the results and a couple of sample layouts. Oven size 11” pizzas 24” 1 28”... Read More

Pizza Oven Size and Throughput

Jul 14, 2012

How many pizzas can you put in a wood-fired oven at a time? How many pizzas can you make per hour? This is useful information whether you operate a restaurant or throw parties for friends and family. In general, throughput is based on concurrent places in the oven and the number of pizzas you can bake in each place per hour. I think it is fair to say that there... Read More

More Food Truck Numbers

May 14, 2012

From WCTV in Tallahassee—Food Truck Boom in Tallahassee. They are riding the wave of the fastest growing business in Florida. According to Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, there are 60 food trucks registered in Leon County alone. That has more than doubled since 2008. “It’s growing tremendously. Statewide in 2008 about 2500, now about 3,000 and we are seeing people embracing this new business model and they are reaching... Read More

Food Trucks by the Numbers

May 09, 2012

From BusinessWeek. The new model being set by Porc Mobile in Washington and Rickshaw Dumpling Bar in New York has moved beyond hot dogs and ice cream to miso soup, lobster rolls and crepes. Mobile food- preparation businesses increased 15 percent over five years to make up 37 percent of the $1.4 billion of U.S. street vending revenue in 2011, according to researcher IBISWorld Inc. “They’ve grown aggressively,” said Nima... Read More

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