Pizza Hut taps Aaron Powell as division CEO

August 27, 2021

Aaron Powell, formerly the president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation's Asia-Pacific Consumer Business, has bee named global Pizza Hut division CEO.

Pizza Hut brings back fan-favorite limited time offering

August 24, 2021

Pizza Hut is bringing back its popular Detroit-Style pizza just a few months after its initial debut. It's the fastest comeback of any of the company's…

Pizza Hut partners with Beyond Meat for Beyond Pepperoni pizza

August 11, 2021

Pizza Hut has partnered with Beyond Meat to introduce the Beyond Pepperoni plant-based pizza. The pizza will be available at 70 locations in Albany, New York…

Pizza Hut teams with Contentsquare to boost digital customer experience

August 6, 2021

Pizza Hut is leveraging Contentsquare's customer behavior capabilities to discover how consumers interact with certain areas of their website in the quest to…

Pizza Hut brings back The Big Dinner Box

August 4, 2021

The Big Dinner Box from Pizza Hut is back in time for back-to-school season, offering pizza, breadsticks and choice of OR wings or pasta. Guests can customize…

Pizza Hut drops 1st 'streetwear' collection

July 28, 2021

Pizza Hut is coming is launching its first limited edition capsule collection, Pizza Hut Tastewear, the brand's take on streetwear like track suits and slides…

The 'Domino's effect': Company's stock price surge sets off 'chain' reaction

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

Domino's better-than-expected earnings report last Thursday morning set off a wave of optimism among investor in its competitors too.

Domino's share price still soaring, along with US gas prices

Domino's share price — up almost $100 since January — continues to leave a contrail as it soars upward, but now it has company in gas prices.

Domino's price pumps up, as pump prices dip down

A bit of happier news related to those recently escalating gasoline prices came to delivery-centered pizza operators this week in the form of slightly lower…

Domino's, Papa John's, Yum stock prices up ... as are pump prices

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

Major pizza restaurant companies fared well, for the most part, in trading last week. But their gains in stock prices are being eaten into by increasing losses…

Lofty gas prices flatten out, still gobble up pizzeria profits

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

With gas prices a hefty 10 cents more a gallon than just a month ago, pizza operators may be feeling a slight sense of relief in hearing those…

Pizza Hut brings back 'The Edge' to lighten things up a bit

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

With a crisp, light crust and slightly sweet sauce, The Edge pizza — first introduced nearly a quarter century ago — returns to Pizza Hut stores nationally…

Taco Bell, Pizza Hut , KFC parent moves to buy Dragontail tech/AI provider for $72.4M

May 27, 2021

Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut parent, Yum! Brands Inc., has completed a binding agreement to acquire the Australian-based foodservice tech provider, Dragontail…

Domino's, Pizza Hut score on brand reputation, stock value

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

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack is sucking cash out of pizza operators' pockets in the form of higher gas prices, but generally lower prices for other…

Pizza Hut Canada launches brand's 1st plant-based offerings

May 17, 2021

Pizza Hut is working with plant-based "meat" supplier, Beyond Meat Inc., to offer a plant-based pie topping and three related menu items at some of its Canada…

National infrastructure issues wreak havoc with wheat, gas prices

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

A bridge crack in Tennessee and a major Eastern gas pipeline infrastructure attack last week are hitting pizzeria owners in the pocketbook this week, as vital…

Pizza Hut opens 1,000th delivery-based store

May 13, 2021

Pizza Hut International has opened it thousandth "fast casual delivery" location (FCD) with franchise partner Food Delivery Brands.

Chicken wing prices fly on tight supply as major pizza player prices push higher

That pizzeria income adjunct of chicken wings are in tight supply, raising prices on the commodity, just as most major pizza brand players are also…

Wing supply wanes as commodity prices gain

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

Those percolators of pizza brand sales nationally, known as chicken wings, are running short of demand, causing prices paid for the favored edibles to go up as…

Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's stocks inch up on short trading week

Cheese prices trended higher, as did most publicly traded U.S. pizza brands over the four days of buying and selling last week, when stock and commodities…