Rob & Ali's commercial/pizzeria build thread

[rob546454]

My name is Rob and my current colleague/soon to be business partner Ali are looking to open a small pizzeria.

This is a especially important for me as I have jut turned 23; my career hasn't turned out as well as I had hoped but I have seen the light and this is really the first thing I have ever been sure about.

We are going to use a wood burning oven and its going to be quite upmarket.

We have both worked with a wood burning oven before but Ali has got the food side expertise. While I will be handle the business side and logistics.

I am going to document my venture from the start to our opening day, not just the oven, I hope you will all follow with interest, I am not by any means an expert so all help will be greatly appreciated.

Just as a teaser I am going to upload the current oven we are currently using. This is a modular oven. We want ours to really look the part, probably by bricking round it into a nice oval shape with the wood on display.





The next pictures will hopefully be our property if we secure the deal!

[cannyfradock]

Hi Rob

I wish you and Ali all the best in your business venture. Great pictures of the Modular oven that you're using at the moment btw.

I believe you are looking to build a 2 meter internal hearth dimension, fire-brick Pompeii oven.....Wow. That will be the largest oven build shared on this forum. The logistics for working out the number of fire-bricks needed is also tricky as the construction of such a large oven will differ greatly to say....the 90cm Pompeii ovens that I build. i.e....my hearth bricks are laid flat...3". Yours need to be laid "on edge"....4". Also my dome walls are 4 1/2" thick.....yours need to be 9 thick.....plus extra thickness of refractory concrete over the dome.

I'm looking forward to following this build and please shout out with any questions.....we'll do our best to help.

Terry

[tonyb]

Wow, a 2m dia diy wfo really looking forward to seeing this build.

Good luck with the business

[bookemdanno]

Good Luck chaps!
Its taken me until 43 to realise that i need a change, and its a lot scarier the older that you get!

You get back what you put in, and you'll enjoy the journey a lot more as its all your own.

I too will enjoy watching this one take shape, and will of course keep it in mind that whenever i'm in the vicinity of your pizzeria to make sure that i can nip along!
All the best ones seem to make the oven a major visual feature of the restaurant, as it gives a real "show" to the procedings also.

regards, Danno