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He tried bringing in food trucks, but that didn't seem to work. Instead, he started his own pizzeria using the best ingredients he could find.</p><p>"We run a full pizza kitchen in all of our stores and it's really a full pizza restaurant by every measure, but being a brewery, we call it a taproom, and the majority of our taproom sales is pizza," Keegan said.</p><p>To learn more about beer and pizza sales, listen to the podcast in its entirety.</p><div class="video-16x9"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3XVmBrXo6ic"></iframe></div><p></p></div><div class="media-tags ac"><a href="/topics/operations-management/">Operations</a><a href="/topics/business-strategy-and-profitability-2/">Business Strategy and Profitability</a><a href="/topics/customer-service-experience/">Customer Service / Experience</a><a href="/topics/equipment-supplies/">Equipment & Supplies</a><a href="/topics/food-beverage/">Food & Beverage</a><a href="/topics/leadership/">Leadership</a><i impr="8261:8"></i><a href="/companies/media/tailgate-brewery/">TailGate Brewery</a></div><hr/><h5><a class="cu" href="/contributors/mandy-wolf-detwiler/">Mandy Wolf Detwiler</a></h5><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-3"><a href="/contributors/mandy-wolf-detwiler/"><img src="https://nmgprod.s3.amazonaws.com/media/user_avatars/884160_MandyWolfDetwiler_500x500.jpg.160x160_q85_crop.jpg"/></a></div><div class="col-sm-9"><p>Mandy Wolf Detwiler is the managing editor at Networld Media Group and the site editor for PizzaMarketplace.com and QSRweb.com. She has more than 20 years’ experience covering food, people and places.<br/> <br/> An award-winning print journalist, Mandy brings more than 20 years’ experience to Networld Media Group. She has spent nearly two decades covering the pizza industry, from independent pizzerias to multi-unit chains and every size business in between. Mandy has been featured on the Food Network and has won numerous awards for her coverage of the restaurant industry. 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