Quote Originally Posted by cmoney View Post
Legit question. What are the start up costs for a pizza place? I am assuming the oven is the most expensive part to it all?
The cost of goods are next to nothing. Which is attractive. But most pizza places around me go out of business. The competition is just brutal. Dominos/Pizza Hut just crush local pizza places nowadays, there are exceptions but they are rare. A couple years ago a local joint went BK and I asked the owner what happened. He said the margins just eroded to the point it was not even worth it. He was packed every Friday and Saturday, but his comment was the Tuesdays and Wednesday were empty, which made him break even, even during football season. He tried everything, but families or Joe Six Pack just is not going out for pizza Monday-Wednesday. You start running crazy specials on those days, and all it does is kill your business long term.