Stephanie quit. She’s getting married in a couple months and is just spreading herself too thin. She will be available in emergencies, but right now needs to dedicate herself to her wedding and life. We wish her the best, and she will always have a home here.

Friday was the best Friday in 3 months….. great sign that things are on the way back up…. Saturday was just dead-slow though as people were grilling and enjoying the nice weather… and then Sunday was awesome. I wish I could predict things and staff accordingly.

Last Wednesday was our 6 months anniversary…. (and they said it wouldn’t last).  At one point we were up to 24 employees… and now we have 12 and things seem to be far more efficient… A couple weeks ago Jake left and went to Buena Vista to wrestle… Damn hardworking kid. We spread his hours out among the other cooks and decided not to replace him. That worked out well, but we miss him nonetheless.

S’more pies are a big hit… We now do Milk Chocolate and Dark Chocolate…. mmm I actually really like the dark ones…. I’m playing with a peanut butter S’more… I think it will be good… I love peanut butter.

New Menu… We are out of paper menus at the restaurant…. still waiting on the re-designed one… It will be introducing a few new pizzas and overall will be more user-friendly… Sweet Potato crust will be there also…. Which reminds me… we need to get the Taco pizza dialed in. As well as the buffalo chicken….

Double Dough….  OK a new style of pizza will be also introduced… it’s a thicker doughier… pan style pizza (white or sweet potato)….

The Mobster’s re-debut….. I been bringing samples of the Grinder sandwich to the dining room…. getting them out there… they will be available later this week. I’m putting a new spin on them though… They will have a sweet potato roll… We’re dialing those in today I hope… They bring a new dimension to this sandwich.

New hours…. This week we will discuss having later hours.. I’m proposing that we have dining room till 10 and delivery till midnight…. I hope this flies. If we try it and nothing happens then we can always go back.

RIBS: For many years I’ve done these really great ribs that people really like and I’m very proud of. SO… in the next week or so we’re going to do a half slab and full slab rib dinner. I’m looking for a consistent and well priced baby back rib right now… for samples I went to grocery stores… too pricey… I mean I can’t possibly buy ribs in the same volume as hickory park, so it’s difficult to compete with an 18.00 slab, but we are working on it. The dinner will have ribs, slaw and potato salad with 2 of our bread rolls. They are really great and I hope they just take right off… Gives people a nice option.

I have much more to say, but short on time…. so I’m done

We make great pizza…. we love doing it…. we have the best service

until next week

Greg and the Black Market Mobsters