Yum sails through Q2 with sparkling performance that beats predictions

August 1, 2019

Multi-brand QSR powerhouse, Yum Brands, reported equally powerful Q2 system sales growth of 10% with same-store sales and GAAP operating profit both up 5% and…

Blaze tops Papa Murphy's, Marco's in 2019 Market Force customer ratings

July 30, 2019

Pasadena-based brand-on-growth-hormones, Blaze Pizza, topped Market Force's 2019 survey of best QSR brands as chosen by consumers. Early results of the study…

Pizza Hut parent Yum Brands' stock value continues climb

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Aside from cheese, pizza commodity prices last week were mostly lower -- and yes, that includes vehicle fuel prices which also trended downward, But the best…

Taco Bell, Pizza Hut name new CEOs

July 26, 2019

Former adidas Group North America President Mark King will take the reins as Taco Bell CEO, and Yum sister brand, Pizza Hut, has promoted its U.S. President…

Pizza Hut Hollywood pilots 'frictionless' storefront with automated pickup cubbies

July 24, 2019

In still further proof that it's all happening on Sunset Boulevard, the Pizza Hut at that Hollywood California location at 6660 Sunset Blvd. is testing the…

Domino's stock value dives, but so do cheese, wheat, natural gas prices

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Pizza chain investors showed Domino's their disappointment with the brand's lackluster Q2 financials last week, reining in the brand's stock value to the tune…

Domino's, Yum stock prices push up

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

Pizzeria operators probably suspected those lower gas prices wouldn't last. Now tight supplies are pushing auto fuel prices up, while wheat prices also rose…

Commodity trading hands some pre-Independence Day 'duds' to pizza operators

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

You might call last Friday the "Day of the Dud" for pizza operators, after they watched the price for their needed restaurant commodities like wheat and cheese…

Yum Brands puts PepsiCo exec in CFO role

June 27, 2019

Chris Turner (Photo provided) Yum! Brands has named a former PepsiCo executive to be its new CFO, effective Aug. 8. A news release said that…

Commodities: Fairly flat week, except for Papa John's stock price tumble

Great gas prices continued to turn frowns upside down for delivery-centered pizza brands across the U.S., but it was likely not enough to erase the worry…

Leading Canadian Burger King, Pizza Hut franchisee names CEO

June 19, 2019

Major Canadian Burger King and Pizza Hut franchisee, The Redberry Group, has named former Recipe Unlimited Corp. and Boston Pizza executive, Ken Otto, as its…

Are cracks developing in domestic cheese market?

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

While gas prices prove to be the pizzeria's "gift that keeps on giving" -- thanks to plentiful supply, despite equally plentiful demand -- there are signs…

June starts on high note: Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's values up, gas prices down

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

How do you make a pizza brand leader croon a little at the start of summer? Push up their brand's stock values and keep things like the price of gas low.

Pizza commodity prices tick up, amidst tornadoes, flooding

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

With reports of some 500 tornadoes ripping mostly across the nation's farmland-rich mid-section in May, prices on some pizza commodities, including wheat, are…

KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr workers striking in New Zealand

May 17, 2019

In New Zealand, hundreds of KFC, Carl's Jr. and Pizza Hut frontline workers are striking this weekend through 2 a.m. local time. The workers are employees of…

Domino's, Papa John's stocks tick up, possible good news en route for gas prices

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

While stock values on the big brands played out their drama on the trading floor last week, crude production soared to levels not seen in nearly two years…

Nation's 5th biggest restaurant operator shifts payroll, other key functions to cloud

May 1, 2019

The world's biggest Pizza Hut and Wendy's franchisee, NPC International, is rolling out a new digital multi-function payroll and HR management program that…

Domino's, Yum, Papa John's, Papa Murphy's investors all up for bigger slices of the pies

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

With tax time behind them and warm weather ahead, U.S. investors sent some spare change into pizza stocks last week, giving all four of the major publicly…

Pizza Hut pulls out all the stops for NFL draft

April 22, 2019

Pizza Hut is promoting its second year as the NFL Official Pizza Sponsor by giving customers a code for half off its pizzas for a limited time. The 2016's…

Papa Murphy's stock soars post-acquisition announcement

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

The stock value for Papa Murphy's soared up to late 2017 levels last week after Wall Street learned of the chain's pending $190 million acquisition with MTY…