‘Dough not’ mess with Burnet 7-Eleven
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BURNET — Here’s pizza in your eye, Los Angeles.
The Burnet 7-Eleven at 109 W. Jackson St. not only reclaimed the nationwide convenience store chain’s record of most pizzas sold in a single day — they smashed it.
“The company pulled the data and we did 185 pizzas,” said local store manager Patty Sharkey Thursday morning. “It was incredible.”
Last December, the Burnet store set the company-wide record with a 113 pizzas sold in a single day. But on Feb. 8, a Los Angeles unit eclipsed that number by heating and selling 123 round pies.
After reading a write-up in the company newsletter earlier this month about the West Coast store’s achievement, Sharkey and her staff just couldn’t let Los Angeles hold the pepperoni bragging rights.
So employees spread the word that on Wednesday, they would go after the pizza record once again.
“This entire town came out for us,” Sharkey said. “Look at the size of the two cities. We’re Burnet. We have, what, just over 4,000 people. Los Angeles has several million.”
Her employees worked hard to return the Texas bluebonnet capital to its status as the pizza epicenter of the 7-Eleven world.
“I truly believe there won’t be another 7-Eleven that will break this record,” Sharkey said.
The only challenge the Burnet store may have faced was a possible claim the Los Angeles unit sold its 123 pizzas in only 16 hours, not 24 hours.
“We went back and looked at our pizzas, which we started selling at 12:01 a.m. (Wednesday), and at 2:40 p.m. we were at 126 pizzas,” Sharkey said. “We did that in less than 16 hours so that still beats their record.”
The pizza-baking frenzy gave the Burnet store a $2,500 boost in sales as well, Sharkey said — a milestone even the corporate headquarters in Dallas noticed.
While some customers purchased several pizza pies, one patron ordered 24.
“Every person who came through that door and bought a pizza counted,” she said. “Our customers, my employees and this town are incredible. We couldn’t do it without them. We’re exhausted, but we’re excited.”