Posted on 02/26/2018 10:59:29 AM PST by Morgana
When I took a break from Active Duty to finish my college degree my wife (still Active Duty) was stationed 185 miles away from where I lived/attended college. She would drive down to see me every Friday and on Sundays (the cafeterias on campus were closed on Sundays) we would host a cheap dinner for my AFROTC students.
Since we didn't have much money ourselves and the others had less my wife and I would make a ton of pizzas using cheap Pillsbury dough, some inexpensive canned pizza sauce, and mozzarella cheese, and then add whatever vegetables we had on hand.
We probably made six or seven pizzas nearly every Sunday and never had any complaints.
That is true in some cases. I know some “old money” people. Third generation and beyond type “old money.”
Some are about a nice and sensible as you could want. Some are not. I think the first and second generation is the on-the-bubble period.
“One thing I learned early on by working for a family business, is that few businesses are successfully passed on to next generation. The founders manage to stay on until they die and their children seldom have the desire, skills, or knowledge of the founder to carry on with the family business. There are exceptions but it easier for the children to take the money and sell the business to new owner(s).”
Yea that’s really sad too. This kid could have taken the business to new heights had he tried. Well you know what they say talent skips a generation so maybe his kids will be sharp as tacks.
“Their pizza isn’t bad. Nothing to write home about, but they use fresh dough, fresh mozzarella and munster cheese, and bake it fresh. If course you can get a better pizza for three times the price, but it’s good for something quick and cheap. Add a good soup or salad and you’ve got a decent meal.”
I call it crappy but I ate there last week! The lowest of the low is Billy Bob’s or Chuck E Cheese hands down. That pizza I would not feed to my dog!! If I had my choice I’d eat at Gino’s or Pizza Hut but When you are really hungry and only have 5 bucks their pizza is not bad.
You are a freaking doll !!!
Hugs!!!
(And I have never tried Little Caesars but Pizza Hut tastes like marinara sauce on a shortbread cookie.)
If he had the desire he would have taken over the business or became more involved at an earlier age maybe.
To the best of my knowledge, the children of Dave Thomas, Ray Kroc, and others who were founders of fast food businesses never passed the business in it’s entirety to their children. Some children of the founders did serve on the board of directors but never participated in any major way except to draw a paycheck or dividends for their shares.
I watched a third generation company go down the tubes when the new owners (second generation owner’s children) tried to upgrade and improve the business against the advice of long time employees. In their efforts and despite the best consultants money could buy, they stepped on the goose that laid the golden egg. Yes, they sold out the business for a small profit, but it was the employees that had built the company that lost the most.
I still believe at 61 y.o. it is time to start winding down a bit and planning for retirement, not taking over a business. But that’s my opinion given the circumstances in this case.
Not much west of the Hudson, according to this map?
Death by drugs, alcohol and suicide have reached epidemic levels.
It has, hasn’t it? :)
The parents did not teach them from a young age how to run the business.
The family that made Coors beer did this.
The Hilton family? Yea not sure Paris can manage she’s better sleeping on the beds if you know what I mean.
The water is important but flower is not flower. NE pizza crust is made with high gluten flower. Many places outside of the NE use all-purpose flower. Big difference.
Exactly. Look into the flour they use in Italy. Same thing - high gluten.
BTW - I've made several thousand pizzas over the course of my lifetime.
I have my own dough recipe (thick crust) from the place I worked in college.
I stole the Pizza Hut sauce recipe and enhanced it. They have packets that you add to the #10 cans of tomato sauce/paste.
I analyzed one of the packets. The secret ingredient?
Parmesan cheese. :)
Turn it over to store it, especially if you're storing it in a plastic container. :)
I like to let it go overnight (in the fridge, covered with Saran wrap, or in a quart Ziploc).
thick crusted pizza is okay, but all that bready dough...not good...
When I have to eat Pizza Hut pizza, I order the thin and crispy crust, and order the premium crushed tomato sauce, double cheese, Italian sausage (or what THEY call Italian sausage), and other toppings, then have it cooked well done. It’s not marvelous, but it’s better than nothing, if I can’t have the real thing.
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