Quick post for all my spring/summer Philly heads. Even though our calzones are addicting, I’m actually not going to get in to that just quite yet. Walking around the campuses Saturday got me reminiscing about my days at Drexel (what up class of 2004). Although this time of year does bring many many good things (backyard house parties, trips to the beach, chillin in Rittenhouse…just to name a few), there are some unfortunate downsides. For all my friends stuck in boring internships, stuck in boring spring/summer co-ops, and worst of all, stuck in hot stuffy summer classrooms, check out this little game to help you pass your time until you can get outside to the nice weather. Leave us a comment and let us know your high score

!!!!Click here for the most addicting game ever!!!!

–Scott

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Check our out our photo gallery for pictures from this past Saturday!

All in all it was a great day. We met tons of students from both Penn and Drexel, many who provided some feedback on what DP Dough Philly should focus on. Sadly we forgot that you guys are lucky enough to still be college students so when we showed up around 2 pm, there was a serious lack of activity on the campuses.

Fortunately, you all crawled out of bed around 5 or 6 so we were able to hand out a little over half the shirts we brought with us. 95% of the people we met were cool and stopped to talk with us, most even offering their support; however, to the other 5% we must’ve looked like shady promoters trying to sell them something they didn’t need. That 5% is going to be sorely disappointed once our store opens and they don’t have the limited edition (collectors item even!) shirt that we gave out on the first pass. No worries though, we will have more DP apparel later.

We would like to throw in that the quality of the shirts were great and the graphics/words we chose were exactly what we were looking for, thanks Asher.

Aside from giving away shirts, we got to finally see our site as OFFICIAL tenants. It was a good feeling to say the least since we have been working on this for well over a year now. I took the time to snap some “before” pictures of our newly acquired blank canvas that will hopefully be in stark contrast with our finished product, DP Dough Philly. Scott even managed to figure out the timer on my new camera so there’s a pic of the four of us that looks like it could be our album cover if we were a band. I’m working on getting those pics up right now, but my day job is interfering with play time

Since we still have a decent amount of t-shirts left we’ll take some suggestions on ways to give out the rest to generate more buzz before we open in August (knock on wood).

Hi everybody!

Today is a very exciting day for us because we’re hitting the pavement for the first time to meet all of you students of Philly! We’ll be walking around UPenn and Drexel handing out our “hot-off-the-press t-shirts” in the early afternoon. The forecast says rain but we’ll be out regardless so look for us.

Here’s some background on what it took to get these shirts ready for you. We ordered these super cute Moo cards for our promotional cards and last night, Jason and I punched holes in them then threaded throughthe rubber band/safety pin setup. Jason came up with this ingenius idea so it wasn’t too terrible pinning the cards to the shirts this morning at Scott’s parent’s house.

As for the Moo cards, we ordered them so they would be small enough to fit into your wallet without being obtrusive. We highly suggest that you keep the cards for the next few months because as soon as we open (keeping our fingers crossed for mid-August), there will be a special promotion for all of you lucky first-movers out there who got the card today and the t-shirts.

For those of you who met us today, leave us some comment love and let us know what you think of our shirts! We’ll be giving away more t-shirts in August but if you have a good promotional idea before then, we’d love to hear it. In addtion, we’d love to hear from those in the local student body who have ideas that can help us get more involved in your community and your social organizations.

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We look forward to seeing you all in August!

FYI, we are a four person team but Mikey pulled an all-night shift at the University of Delaware store so we let him sleep in.