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May 17

BCIS Spring in the City!

Gung Ho! Teamsters Mack and Nancy at BCIS

Gung Ho! Allstars Mack and Nancy at the BCIS Spring in the City event!

Last Saturday Nancy & I set up shop on Beijing City International School’s beautiful campus grounds to sling some pizza slices and spread the word about our new Shuangjing store! It was an amazing event; tons of people were about and the weather was… incredibly cooperative. I mean really. Forecast was for thunderstorms but all we got was non-stop sunshine. Amazing. There was live music, tons of games and events, Gung Ho! buddies Beijing Kids and The Hutong Kitchen were there along with many others. In all we sold nearly two hundred slices of pizza for charity!

Okay, Nancy doesn’t look super happy in the header pic which is weird because she’s basically a ray of sunshine in human form. To the utter surprise of no-one who’s ever ordered from her at Sanlitun, she rocked the stall. It turns out that in college she worked part time at a supermarket pushing samples!

Beijing City International School

BCIS is a not-for-profit day school who’s mission (should they choose to accept it) is to educate and empower students to be compassionate and inspired people, who act for the good of all and for the sustainable development of the world.

May 17

Gung Ho! Allstar: Ronan

Gung Ho! Allstar Ronan Liu

Big Brother Ronan

See that guy there in the white shirt? That’s Ronan. His team call him Brother Liu. He’s been store manager at Gung Ho! from day one and he’s been working with Jade for nearly 10 years. He started off as a chef at Lush and now he’s in charge of getting new Gung Ho! stores off the ground. Not bad eh? He’s a Gung Ho! Allstar.

Gung Ho! AllstarsWe’re crazy about service. If you have any recommendations on how we can serve you better, email us anytime at johnandjade@gunghopizza.com. And remember, if you’re ever not satisfied with your food we’ll give you your money back!

May 9

Happy Mothers Day from Gung Ho!

From the gang at Gung Ho! Pizza, Happy Mothers Day!

Here’s a vid of the Gung Ho! team (all of them) wishing their mothers a happy mothers day! I forget that like me, nearly all of them are quite far from home. It’s a bit long (3 and a bit minutes) but it’ll make you feel warm and fuzzy inside so why not? It’ll also make you want to call your mum so go ahead and recharge your phone first.

Also, this Mothers Day (Sunday, May 13) we’re giving away 4 egg tarts with every large pizza. Yum!

Love you mum!

Apr 27

UPDATE: Vote Gung Ho! at the City Weekend Awards!

Aw! Gung Ho! Kids!

Aw look at his little face!

Update: Just 3 days to go! Also, creator of the crowd favorite Thai Beef Salad, celeb chef Jun Trinh is also nominated for Best Chef so while you’re voting, give him a nudge too!

Atten-shun! Gung Ho! Crew present arms! And legs!

Gung Ho! needs you! There’s just 4 days left to vote in the City Weekend Restaurant and Bar Awards and well, we’d really like to win. So if you like, nay, love your friendly neighborhood Gung Ho! Pizza, then please please please take the time to vote for us! Voting is really simple; after you’ve registered all the categories are listed on one page. Just click on a category and the nominees just pop out. You can vote in as many or as little categories as you like! For example:

  • Best Dressed Delivery Staff
  • Loudest Yelling in a Restaurant
  • Most Effective! Use of Punctuation!!!

But the one we’re really after is of course:

  • Best Pizza

Just click here to vote and thanks again for all your support!

Gung Ho! Pizza

PS We’re also nominated for Best Service!

Jun Trinh has personal appeal

Apr 20

Happy April Fools Day

Congrats, not.

Fool me once…

Haha! Sorry, this is just our idea of a good time. The astute may have recognized Nicole from the Titanic English Class video, the Holmes-ian among you realized that July and Ben stand for Jiao Ban, the Chinese name of our company.

On another note, when did flowers get so expensive?

Gung Ho! fans July Wang and Ben Li tied the knot at the Lido branch yesterday. July and Ben met at the Sanlitun branch a year ago and promptly fell in love with the pizza, and each other. When Ben finally proposed, they decided they wanted to do something different – so July thought they’d have the wedding at the place they met! The ceremony was performed by Gung Ho! intern Pieter Van Herck, who registered as a marriage officiant online for the occasion.

After the wedding it was home on the GHP bikes and then off to the airport for a tour of the world’s most famous pizza landmarks, from the birthplace of laobing in China’s north-east, Napoli, Italy and the leaning tower of Piza, and Des Moines Iowa, where they invented the stuffed cheese crust.

They have no plans yet to start a family, but they’re already thinking about it. Says Ben, “if it’s a boy, we’re going to name him Li Jiao Ban”.

Happy April Fools Day :)

 

Mar 7

Women’s Day Tomorrow!

Happy Women’s Day!

So for Women’s Day we wanted to make another video but Sammi and Clara decided  they would exercise their Women’s Day Free Pass and… not. So Wynn and I had to do it instead. If anything is going to make you appreciate the amazing women in our lives this Women’s Day, this video certainly will.

Women’s Day Special!

Be a woman and order a pizza, salad or pasta this Women’s Day (March 8) and get two egg tarts free! (Limit one per order)

Gung Ho loves all the ladies of the world

Mar 2

Weekly Wrapup

Verne Harnish at Gung Ho HQ

Left to Right: Skott Taylor from New Seed Creative Consulting, Verne Harnish “The Growth Guy”, Josh Lally from our sister company Lush/Pyro, John O and myself from Gung Ho!

Verne Harnish, the “Growth Guy” and author of the Rockefeller Habits has been in town this week to give another seminar. After the show, Michael Wester, Grand Poobah of the Entrepreneurs Organization’s Beijing Chapter (and CEO of The Beijinger) managed to hijack his car and bring him (along with the rest of the EO guys) to Gung Ho HQ for a looksee. Verne Harnish has been a great inspiration to our company – he’s a bloody marvel on stage –  and it was great to show him how many of his tools we put to use.

You can’t tell because I Photoshopped the hell out of myself but I’m quite drunk. Cheers to Campbell Thompson from the Wine Republic! And thanks for Dominic from Plastered 8 for the custom tees!! Caption: “That’s just the light bleed!”

Free Pizza Upsizes!

From last Monday order any medium pizza Monday to Friday between 2pm to 4pm and upsize it free! That’s any large pizza for the price of a medium!

Youku Killed The Video Star

Video: Check out extreme fixie fanatic Ines Brunn school the Gung Ho! Boys on how to really ride.

GHP-TV: The Gung Ho! Girls Trilogy!

Check out the three episodes of the Gung Ho! Girls on the GHP Youku channel! Due to fanboy pressure, there may or may not be a secret fourth installment – not unlike Firefly.

Swing the Vote!

We’ve been nominated for Best Pizza and Best Salad in the Beijinger Reader Restaurant Awards! If you have a minute please vote for us here!

Also, the Time Out Readers’ Choice award is wide open! If you have a second, yes! give us a good nudge!

Feb 27

GHP Bike Safety Training with Ines Brunn

BMX Bandit!

At Gung Ho! Pizza we believe that when riding around Beijing’s dangerous roads safety comes first.

So we got renowned extreme bikie Ines Brunn to show us what not to do.

Don’t try this at home!

Ines Brunn has been riding competitively for over 20 years and owns a fixed-wheel bike and juggling store in Wudaoying Hutong called Natooke. She’s performed all over the world, given a TEDx Talk and even made dumplings while riding on CCTV! Check out her blog here!

Jan 21

Happy Spring Festival 2012

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gung Ho Na Lai!

Hi guys! The team at Gung Ho! would like to wish you all a safe lucky dragon year in 2012! And remember; if you’re messing with fireworks, lay off the baijiu!

And now here’s a video of the Gung Ho! team singing a song about a dragon! Rawr!

FYI, we’re sending a lot of our guys home for CNY so our opening hours will be as follows:

  • January 22, 23, 24: Closed (Sorry!)
  • January 25 ~ 29: 11am ~ 2pm and then 5pm ~ 9pm

And then back to standard operating hours from January 30 (11am to 11pm).

Also, as a seasonal treat (wait ’til you see our Paddy’s Day Guinness Pizza) we’re doing a promo on our pre-paid VIP cards. Purchase any VIP card and get a 100rmb voucher as a kicker!! VIP cards are pre-paid pizza credit and carry a discount depending on the card you get. 1000rmb = 10% off, 2000rmb = 20% off and 3000rmb = you guessed it, 30% off. Offer available until Jan 30. If you’re interested, drop us a line at johnandjade@gunghopizza.com!

Happy Chinese new year! May your VPN never fail!