The Boys Go Pro!

It's been a long time coming, but tomorrow it all becomes very real. This weekend is our first 'big one'. We are doing three days on the spin and hope to serve well over 500 pizzas. If we do we will be off and running, ready to take down Pizza Express in no time. If we don't, major rethinks could well be in order. 


The lead up to this weekend has gathered pace over the last few weeks. A house warming pizza party last weekend confirmed that we have a great product. If we can get the production right this weekend we'll be onto something. Doing the sums on 600 pizzas has brought home some realities, so we have taken the plunge and bought a van! I traded in my trusty Fiat Punto, friend and companion for the last 4 1/2 years and am now officially a van man. Just need to get a copy of The Sun and a Big Mac wrapper and the transformation will be complete. After loading it up this evening with two fridges, 48kgs of mozzarella and 500 pizza boxes, we wondered how we thought we could ever cope without one. Hopefully it will serve us well this summer.


More good news and excitement today when our first catering size delivery of ingredients turned up. After many a long night searching for suppliers we finally found one we were happy with. They make their own mozzarella everyday in London and deliver down to the south coast so we are delighted. However, after simply phoning through an order and promising cash on delivery we really were wondering if all our stock would turn up. But it did, and we are currently the proud owner of over 50kgs finest Italian pizza flour, a full fridge of mozzarella, 10kgs of meat products and litres and litres of tomatoes. All we have to do now is turn it all into hard cash. No worries.

So at 9:30pm I'm writing this with a glass of red to take my mind of things with a trailer, car and van all loaded up and ready to go. We leave at 8am tomorrow morning, for a weekend that really could shape the rest of our lives...