Two weeks ago the owner of our favourite eating place told us he wanted to go back to Italy. He was looking for someone to take over his Pizzeria. To be honest, it did not take us long to decide. The first restaurant in town with excellent foreign food was about to disappearfrom Fort Portal! This is really an emergency. Our only consideration was if we would manage time wise. Pierluigi convinced us that the place hardly needs any time to run it. The pizzeria is a small place with 16 tables and a small bar. The location is right in the main street in an old building . The building is known for the oldest bar in Fort Port The Glue Pot (since 1960). The interior of the place could definitely improve, but the pizza’s are great. Pierluigi build an wood oven, specific for pizza. The people who come there are wasungu (whites), mohindi (Indian) and Ugandan. The Ugandans come for the meat with chips, the bar and football. The wasungu have their special night Wednesday and especially eat pizza and spaghetti. The mohindi prefer quite evenings so they get quick service and they come for pizza, chips masala, fruit juices and Indian tea. We really have to learn a new type of business. The pizzeria has 6 staff members: 3 in the kitchen, 2 in the restaurant, 1 in the bar. The new name will be Glue Pot Bar and Pizzeria. The pizzeria is of the few places that does take away and they even deliver by motorcycle!
If you want to see the flashy website of the pizzeria you can look at pierpizzeria.com
Also important is that the pizzeria is using 40 kilo of mozzarella per week. We have taken over possibly the biggest client of our cheese factory.
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Congratulations! You're in business.
ReplyDeleteBut it won't be easy in the beginning. So there's a tough period ahead. But you can do it.
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Philip
Thanks. We are looking forward to eating pizza and spaghetti every day. Can things get more tough?
ReplyDeleteHeleen
Wat een gave ontwikkelingen allemaal :-) Heel veel succes en plezier ermee!
ReplyDeleteMagiel
Wow! You certainly are entrepreneurs. One question, though, why is the website www.pierpizzaria.com and the new name of your restaurant Glue Pot Bar and Pizzaria? Shouldn't you register www.gluepot.com quickly as well? It is still free...
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Hi Michel and Heleen,
ReplyDeleteHow nice to hear from both of you again (I was beginning to get afraid that the blog-inspiration had run out).
Good luck with your new ventures!
Joost
First days at the pizzeria. Pierluigi was not right, it takes a lot of time and energy, but the staff is great and is helping us a lot. No time to change the website yet. www.pierpizzeria.com, was set up by the former owner. We are juggling now between the construction site, the pizzeria and making cheese at home.
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