Pizza/beer

[stadros316]

I'm looking at opening a pizzeria in the Orlando area in Florida, nothing big, maybe 1500 sqft. and wanted to add beer and wine. I will be serving, hot/cold sandwiches/pizza/salads/pasta and deserts and wanted to see if it's a good idea to sell draft beer and wine. I will have a brick oven and wanted to have a custom made bar made around the oven. I will have an open kitchen, so people can watch the pizza being made. Any ideas would be great. Thank You

[salonikios]

i have a full line restaurant in iowa that ill sell you....
www.georgespizzaandsteakhouse.com

[jehallett]

Im looking for a Pizza prep table and a 2-door freezer. Got anything for sale?

[stadros316]

Guys,

I'm not selling equipment and don't want to buy an exsisting business. I want to open a new location in the Orlando area and wanted to know if having beer and wine will be benificial.
Thank You

[wygk]

There are a few small pizza places here that sell slices and don't offer beer & wine. They are usually located in strip malls and survive off the shoppers, or they are located near high schools and survive off the school kids.

All the bigger pizza/sandwich places offer beer and wine. A local deli lost their beer permit (they had minors serving), and folded about three months later.

Think about this: a group of people at work decide to go out for lunch. Somebody suggests your place. If one person in the group says, "no, I want to get a beer," then the whole group goes someplace else.

Without knowing more about your specific location and market, I'd have to say beer & wine are a must.

[stadros316]

Thanks for the great replys, Iowa is too far, and I want to do a start-up. Anyone else's opinion. Thanks

[The Event Guy]

Yes, beer and wine will be profitable.

[drunkenlush]

:confused: No I am not really a drunken lush! I use to be, but I don't drink anymore, and you know what, my life has gotten worse. Drinking is good for you if you can keep it up without dying from it. But anyway, you know I was thinking of the same thing in my area. I am not really a Bartender, and the Bar Buss is not really my cup of tea, but this building I found is really nice, but in a lousy location for a resturant. And since I am no expert in the bar Buss, I really don't know if it is a good location for a Bar. It use to be a Bar, but the owner up and died, and left it to his son. His son is now selling it, and I have thought about buying it, I to thought of the Beer and Pizza (Brickoven) thing. Because there are no Brickoven Pizzas in town, but then again, I wonder if the Pizza would be any better than regular Electric oven cooked pizza. The only way to tell I guess would be to go eat at a Brickoven place and find out. But anyhow, if I were you I might try researching on the Internet. There is a ZA's Pizza and wine place that may be a franchise. Take a look at them. There are plenty of Brickoven, Pubs you can use as a Business Model. There is one thing you want to think about, ask yourself this. What is a Franchise. If you look at Franchises, what do you see? They are all the same. I mean a Dominoes looks like every other Dominoes. A Pizza Hut looks like every other Pizza Hut, and UPS truck drivers look like all other UPS Truck Drivers. If you go into this, make your place look like a Franchise. Well, that is some pretty straight forward thinking from this old Drunken Lush! But you know, I kind of had an idea to, that if the Bar or Pub didn't work out, you could allways sell Pizza, and Vice-a-Versa. One more thing, the fellow selling his place jumped right on you to buy it. So I might ask him. Why is he selling. Is his Business doing lousy.