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Jo Jo Macs
300 SW 2nd Ave
(541) 350-5023

Downtown Albany, Oregon

Breakfast, pizza and gourmet hot dogs, all out of one door on 2nd Avenue.

Scratch-made Southern breakfast and lunch, built-to-order pizza, and a hot dog menu that got out of hand in the best way. Four kitchens, one address, and you do not have to know which is which before you walk in. Across from the PX Theatre.

Or get directions. Suites 111 and 112, on the 2nd Avenue side.

Four kitchens, one address

Same building, same block, two suites. Here is which name goes with which counter and which number to call for it, so you are not guessing on the sidewalk.

  • Jo Jo Macs Southern breakfast and lunch, made to order. Dinner Friday and Saturday. Suite 112  /  (541) 350-5023
  • Dough Riot Pizza your way, plus wings, breadsticks and salads. Suite 111  /  (541) 598-4116
  • DogCraft Gourmet hot dogs, from plain and honest to genuinely unhinged. Same counter as Dough Riot  /  (541) 598-4116
  • The Original Cinn Fresh cinnamon rolls made daily, and pastry, until they run out. Suite 111  /  (541) 350-5023

Are you open?

Seven days for breakfast and lunch. Full hours for all four kitchens further down. Two of them do not agree yet, and that is marked.

Where are you?

300 SW 2nd Ave, Suites 111 and 112. Two Rivers Market, downtown Albany, OR 97321. Across from the PX Theatre.

Can I order ahead?

(541) 350-5023 Pickup is up to 30 minutes. Delivery apps are listed at the bottom.

Note for the owner, not page copy

The block above is the one real decision in this whole page, so it is worth a minute. You have four names and one front door. Your own site does a good job of giving each brand its own personality, and that is the right call for the brands. It is a hard read for somebody who has never been in.

So I did not merge them and I did not split them into four pages. I made the address the headline and the four kitchens the answer to it. Every name gets its suite and its phone number attached, in one list, before anybody scrolls to a menu. If a customer only wants a cinnamon roll, they can see in about four seconds where to go and who to call.

Two things in that list I need you to check. I have DogCraft sharing a counter with Dough Riot because they share a phone number on your site, but your site never actually says which suite DogCraft is in. And I have written the four one-line descriptions myself from your menus. Change any of it that is wrong. None of those sentences are yours yet.

What have you got?

Every kitchen, written out as text you can read on a phone without downloading anything or pinching a picture of a menu.

Note for the owner, not page copy

Where all of that came from, so you can check me. Every heading and every dish name above was read straight off your own website on the 31st. Nothing is invented and nothing came off a review site or a delivery app. I fixed one thing: your breakfast menu has a section headed Breakfast Burrito's and I spelled it Burritos. Tell me if you want it back.

There are no prices anywhere on this page, and that is on purpose. I could not find a single price published by you anywhere I could reach. I am not going to put a number in front of your customers that I have not seen you set. Send me the current sheet and every one of these blocks takes a price column without me rebuilding anything.

The reason this section is the argument. Right now the only way to read your food is to open your site and click through four separate brand pages, and two of those pages would not give up their menus even to me sitting here trying. Everything above is ordinary web text. It loads on a phone in the parking lot, a search engine can read every dish name in it, and a customer can copy one and text it to whoever they are meeting.

What does it look like?

Four of your own photographs, off your own website. Two frames are still empty and the note underneath says who can fill them.

A crab cake Benedict under hollandaise on a blue plate, over roasted peppers and onions, at Jo Jo Macs.
A pepperoni, mushroom and black olive pizza from Dough Riot, shot close on the surface.
A DogCraft hot dog in a toasted bun under melted cheese, diced tomato and fresh cilantro.
A tray of bacon-topped cinnamon rolls under maple glaze from The Original Cinn.
05The room, from standing height
06The door from the sidewalk, with enough of the building to recognize
Note for the owner, not page copy

Those four are your own photos, off your own website. The crab cake Benedict, the pizza, the hot dog and the bacon cinnamon rolls. Nothing here was shot by me and nothing here is a stock photo. They hold up fine on a phone, which honestly surprised me a little.

One thing I would rather ask than assume: are they yours to hand on? You published them, which is not quite the same as you taking them. If somebody shot your food and licensed the images to you for your own site, that license is yours and it does not automatically travel to a page I built. Say they are yours and this stays as it is. Say they are not and I will pull them the same day, no argument and no hard feelings.

Frame 06 I will take myself when I come in, and it costs nobody anything. Frame 05 is the one worth doing properly. Four kitchens running out of one room is unusual and there is not a single picture online that shows what that actually looks like.

Is it any good?

A line from a customer

Left empty. I would not write one and I would not lift one I had not read. See the note underneath.

Note for the owner, not page copy

This is the one section I could not build at all, and it is the section that sells food. A page like this normally carries two or three real sentences from real customers. I could not get hold of a single quotable line for you from anywhere I could reach.

To be clear about what that does and does not mean. It does not mean nobody has said anything nice, and I am not telling you your reviews are bad, because I have not read them and I will not pretend I have. It means the good things people have written about you are sitting somewhere I could not open, doing nothing for you.

Two ways to fill it and both are cheap. Point me at the reviews you are proudest of and I will quote them properly, no names attached. Or put a card by the register. A page that shows a stranger somebody else was happy here does more work than another photo of a pancake.

Which door, and when?

300 SW 2nd Ave, Suites 111 and 112, Albany, Oregon 97321.
Two Rivers Market, on the 2nd Avenue side, across from the PX Theatre.

Jo Jo Macs, breakfast and lunch

Published on your homepage

  • Monday to Friday9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
  • Saturday and Sunday8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Jo Jo Macs, dinner

Published on your homepage

  • Dine in, Friday and Saturday5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • Takeout and delivery, 7 days5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The Original Cinn

Published on your homepage

  • Monday to Friday9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
  • Saturday and Sunday8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
  • Your about page says7 days, 9 AM to 3 PM

Dough Riot and DogCraft, version one

Published on your homepage

  • MondayClosed
  • TuesdayClosed
  • Wednesday to Friday, lunch11:30 AM to 2:30 PM
  • Wednesday to Friday, dinner4:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  • Saturday and Sunday4:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Dough Riot and DogCraft, version two

Published on your Dough Riot page

  • Every day11:00 AM to 8:30 PM

These two do not agree. Neither one is printed as fact anywhere else on this page. Tell me which is right and this becomes one clean table.

Note for the owner, not page copy

Open your own site on your phone and read the hours for Dough Riot twice, on two different pages. Your homepage says closed Monday and Tuesday, lunch at 11:30, dinner from 4:30. Your Dough Riot page says open seven days a week, 11 to 8:30.

Both of those are yours and they cannot both be true. Somebody reading the wrong one either drives down on a Monday to a dark counter, or skips you at noon on a Wednesday because they think you open at 4:30. I have no way to tell from out here which is right, so I put both on the page with the source under each. That is the only honest thing to do with it and it is not how it ships. One sentence from you and it becomes one table.

While you are in there. Your breakfast and lunch hours are the one set that agrees everywhere I looked, including on the city visitor listing, so those I trust. And there is a personal email address published on one of your brand pages. I have deliberately kept it off this page. If you want it on, say so, and if you would rather have something at your own domain instead, that is a ten-minute job.

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