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Here Is The Greatest Christmas Gift You Can Give! Compliments! Heart Felt Compliments!

Why do we wait for funerals to talk about how much we love our family and friends?

Tell them TODAY. Tell them OFTEN. Let’s practice..

• You’re such a great Mom/Dad!

• You’re such an amazing friend!

• I appreciate you so much!

• I’m proud of you!

• You always make me feel important!

• I love your positive energy!

• I’m thankFULL for you!

• You make me happy!

• You always have a smile on your face!

• I love you so much!

Merry Christmas and Be Incredible!

To learn more about Perfect Crust’s pizza liners and other products, visit perfectcrust.com or email Eric Bam at Eric@perfectcrust.com

About Eric Bam:

A Boston native now living in Tulsa, OK, Eric Bam is VP of sales and marketing for Perfect Crust, with 20 years of experience in the foodservice industry. A powerful force in the workplace, Bam uses his positive attitude and tireless energy to encourage others to work hard and succeed. He has three children and loves helping the men and women of the pizza industry grow their businesses.

install an automated chef/kitchen called Pizzaiola at its new stores and has an aggressive expansion plan built around the tech from Nala Robotics. Pizzaiola, which can be leased for $7,000 a month, reportedly makes up to 50 pies an hour in a variety of styles, including Slice Factory’s specialty jumbo pizzas. “This partnership…will help us improve production exponentially as we expand locations and service areas,” Slice Factory founder/ president Dom DiDiana said in July. “What’s really exciting is that we now have the capability to run fully autonomous pizzeriastyle restaurants with lots of menu items” while maintaining consistency at all locations.

PizzaHQ in Totowa, New Jersey, has even grander ambitions. It’s currently just a one-store operation with human pizza makers working alongside an automated pizza station from Picnic. But co-founder Jason Udrija said Picnic will become PizzaHQ’s “automation backbone” as more locations open in the region. With the Picnic system, Udrija said, “we can automate pizza assembly and free up our staff to do important jobs around the kitchen while focusing on the customer experience.”

PizzaForno, a pizza vending machine manufacturer, is taking a different approach. In cities like New Orleans and Houston, PizzaForno’s licensees have been positioning these automated pizzerias in high-traffic areas such as college campuses, hospitals and entertainment complexes, PizzaForno cofounder Les Tomlin said. “There are so many great places for a PizzaForno [machine], because there are three options, from the smallest unit (60 square feet) that’s about the size of an ATM—perfect to add to an existing business—to an indoor kiosk (75 square feet), which is perfect for dining halls, cafeterias, hospitals and dorms, to the outdoor mobile unit (80 square feet) that is virtually