Ron Varela is a consultant with Lloyd Industries, Inc. INTRODUCTION For years, pizza has been America's fun food - a quick, informal, yet complete meal served in easy-to-eat slices that is affordable …

CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Valley Food Services (VFS) has teamed with local pizzeria, Bungo's Pizza, to create a whole-wheat pizza crust as a healthy alternative for diabetics. According to the Cleveland …

At least one pizza maker says standardizing pizza is impossible in Italy, much less the world.

While high-quality frozen dough is making inroads in the pizza industry, some say it will never totally replace fresh dough.

The American Institute of Baking's annual pizza production seminar draws operators and novices from all around the world.

The class of fall 2002 reaps -- and tests -- the fruits of its labor in a marathon bake-and-eat session.

Finally the students get what they've been waiting for: hands-on lab time.

Nearly twenty pizza companies sought their slice of the c-store business during the convenience store industry's premier tradeshow.

A nine-way ownership team foregoes profits and freebies from its business to ensure Fairfield, Idaho, has a pizzeria.

CHICAGO -- Harold Atwood, founder of AM Manufacturing, died of heart failure at his Crete, Ill., home on Sept. 6. He was 84. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago native held patents on …

MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- A traveling load of yeast-filled pizza dough expanded, breaking out the back of a semitrailer truck and creating a 25- to 35-mile oozing traffic hazard in upstate Chippewa Falls …

AMES, Iowa -- A pizza crust developed by Iowa State students took first prize in the NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center (FTCSC) product development competition. According to a report by …

When it comes to test-marketing a pan pizza, few know more about it than Frank Carney, Pizza Hut co-founder. And as a Papa John's franchisee, he's getting to do it again.

WICHITA, Kan. -- Papa John's International Inc. (Nasdaq: PZZA) is testing deep-dish pizza in its Wichita stores. According to Dow Jones Newswires, the Louisville, Ky.-based company's most famous …

While pizza makes the most dough for operators, sandwiches do a fine job pulling in their own bread.

Will self-rising crusts impact the pizza industry, or just the grocery?

LOS ANGELES -- California Pizza Kitchen has expanded sales of its frozen gourmet pizzas to supermarkets in Florida, New York and Texas. CPK rolled out its line of frozen grocery-store pies in 1998 …

Want proof that the cold war is still on? Just glance at your grocer's freezer case. The frozen pizza market, long dominated by Red Baron, Tony's and Tombstone, is growing more crowded by the …

Pizza, as the world's consumers are coming to know it, resembles the American version more than its Italian forbearer.

Family-owned Teeny Foods may have to change its name after it moves to a new, state-of the-art baking facility early next year. The automated baking operation, which produces hundreds of custom pizza …