Food Fair

   With our new found confidence from the Hay festival weekend we entered the Petersfield food festival with high expectations and a general feeling that we were invincible- like James Bond. Consequently we hiked up our prices and arrived with lots of dough and sauce of which we sold under half! Compounding problems were my rather soggy batches of dough (trying to copy Jesses proficient effort the week before); our new super woman Nick managed to flour them up with great effort so we could make a few pizzas at least, Ed then decided that a quarter of the volume demanded a half effort; pizza quality was emerging somewhat varied and at times the oven was not being stoked to the required heat by my good self. Front of house Liv was popping pain killers willy nilly for the board em but failed to stave off the outer appearance!
   Petersfield food festival turned out to be a strange one with punters perversely not really in the market for food; instead opting for the 'cake shake' or an ice cream once they had tried all the samples along the stalls. The idea of a cake blended with ice cream and milk was to good an opportunity to pass up so everyone in the stall par toke; myself opting for the black forest gateau! This, coupled with the competition selling lack lust-re cheap food, was the general vibe of the festival. It was with little sorrow that we decided to pack up at 7.15 having pulled a 12 hour day of not doing a lot and being on our feet all day; just as the live music picked up and a little atmosphere started to enter the arena!
   On reflection we have surmised that like an F1 car we struggle going at half speeds without encountering problems. As a result we are going to make 60 pizzas an hour regardless at any event and sell them on an open market based system. Liv is going to be our floor trader and adjust prices according to market demand. Bartering each pizza out at a min of £2 to shift units and a maximum of £10 when folks can't get enough. She'll get paid on a percentage of the sales she makes. Boom! It's all going 80's style go gettem pizza making at Piu Pizza.

Wise thoughts:
   When one has a dish washer instead of putting plates on the side put them straight in to the dishwasher.