615: He Started a Pizza Shop With No Experience. Now He Has 45 Employees.

What's going on, y'all? This is Bruce from Pizza Marketing, and today I'm talking with Dan.

I'm actually in his shop.

Dan from Violet Stone in St. Petersburg, I think it is, near Tampa.

They might be opening another shop in Tampa as we speak.

But this was one of our visits we did, and again, this is a longer version of our in-shop visit.

And if you are watching this, or if you're listening to this on iTunes or any other podcast platform, go to Spotify because you can watch the video there.

He shows us around Violet Stone.

It's a Philly-style or inspired pizza and cheesesteak.

They're doing sourdough pizza and Philly cheesesteak in St. Petersburg, and they're super busy.

And listen, the operation was good, but they have a spot that they grew into, and it's by no means set up the way that I would set it up if we could start from scratch, and we'd talk about that on the video.

It's got a funky setup.

But he's doing a tremendous amount of sales there, so much so that he's opening up a second spot.

And he walks us around and shows us how he does things and how he does the dough and how he operates the business.

And this is a great podcast episode if you want to hear more about that.

I love these conversations because they're in the shops.

And we walk you around and talk about things as I see them and as we are either passing by it or stopping to document it.

It gives you a better behind-the-scenes experience.

What's going on, y'all? This is Bruce from Pizza Marketing, and today I'm talking with Dan.

I'm actually in his shop.

Dan from Violet Stone in St. Petersburg, I think it is, near Tampa.

They might be opening another shop in Tampa as we speak.

But this was one of our visits we did, and again, this is a longer version of our in-shop visit.

And if you are watching this, or if you're listening to this on iTunes or any other podcast platform, go to Spotify because you can watch the video there.

He shows us around Violet Stone.

It's a Philly-style or inspired pizza and cheesesteak.

They're doing sourdough pizza and Philly cheesesteak in St. Petersburg, and they're super busy.

And listen, the operation was good, but they have a spot that they grew into, and it's by no means set up the way that I would set it up if we could start from scratch, and we'd talk about that on the video.

It's got a funky setup.

But he's doing a tremendous amount of sales there, so much so that he's opening up a second spot.

And he walks us around and shows us how he does things and how he does the dough and how he operates the business.

And this is a great podcast episode if you want to hear more about that.

I love these conversations because they're in the shops.

And we walk you around and talk about things as I see them and as we are either passing by it or stopping to document it.

It gives you a better behind-the-scenes experience.