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EXPO SPOTLIGHT

BILL OAKLEY

It's All About the Pizzeria Community

Tentatively: March 16 - 18, 2021 - Las Vegas Convention Center - PizzaExpo.com

nternational Pizza Expo 2021
will be your only chance next
year to join more than 13,000
pizza professionals from across the
country and around the world. With
an exhibit hall the size of nine football
fields, each year Pizza Expo becomes
a giant face-to-face international marketplace for independent, chain and
franchise restaurant owners seeking
show specials and discount pricing on
all the latest ingredients, equipment
and technology.
Your Pizza Expo experience
includes the opportunity to check out
more than 1,400 booths, 550 exhibiting companies, along with 70 seminars, demonstrations and networking
events all devoted to the pizzeria
business. There is so much to learn
and experience you should consider
bringing key employees, so you can
divide up the education program and
exhibitors you want to check out. The
interaction between attendees, exhibitors and presenters is sure to have a
positive and lasting effect on your

pizzeria for years to come.
Having cancelled this year's event
due to the COVID pandemic, we
know many of you are anxiously looking forward to attending next year's
show. In fact, we are expecting yet
another record-breaking attendance.
To that point, in order to maximize
our chances of staging the event,
we are researching the possibility of
delaying Pizza Expo a few months to
perhaps June 2021. Nothing has been
finalized but by this time next month,
we should have made our decision.
Cancelling this year's Int'l Pizza
Expo left a void in the industry. Today
more than ever, the need to share best
practices and ideas amongst yourselves and to research what industry
suppliers are recommending has been
severely limited. Since our launch in
1984, Pizza Expo has stayed true to
its mission of providing solutions and
opportunities to the pizzeria community. Times may have changed, but
our mission continues. In the next

couple of months, we will be launching PizzaExpo365. This new online
platform will provide the pizzeria
community the ability to learn, shop
and connect, 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week and 365 days a year. Seminars
and demonstrations will be available
on YOUR schedule, when YOU have
the time. The ability to view a piece
of equipment in action will only be a
video away. Requesting samples will
take just a click of your computer.
Delivering solutions and opportunities
is critical to the success of the industry
and we are developing a new method
to do so.
So stay tuned! Times have changed
and so have we all. Next month we'll
have more information regarding next
year's show dates and much more
information on the launch of
PizzaExpo365.
BILL OAKLEY is the
Group Show Director for
International Pizza Expo and
Pizza & Pasta Northeast

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