Rapid Fired Pizza to open 2 more stores

September 25, 2018

Rapid Fired Pizza plans to open two stores later this year, one in the Eastern Kentucky city of Ashland on Central Avenue, and a second restaurant at an…

Cicis opening second Montgomery, Alabama, location

September 25, 2018

Cicis will open its second Montgomery, Alabama, location with a three-day celebration, starting Wednesday, a news release said. 

Commodities: Investors do a U-turn from last week in favored brands

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

The tables turned this week in pizza stock trading as investors shifted their confidence in Papa John's from a week earlier to the three other publicly traded…

Little Caesars masters pizza without the people interface

September 24, 2018

Little Caesars has installed a proprietary Pizza Portal pickup, which offers a heated, self-service mobile order pickup station for customers, in nearly all of…

Oggi's now only pizza brand at San Diego University's stadium

September 21, 2018

Oggi's Sports, Brewhouse Pizza has now partnered with San Diego County Credit Union Stadium to be the only pizza available at the stadium. The brand's pie …

Study: Restaurant brands going public can rake it in with 2-stage IPO

September 20, 2018

Restaurant leadership mulling over the process of taking brands public would do well to listen to some of the recent findings from a Florida Atlantic…

Papa 'Alaura/Brent/Dougie's' new commercial takes emphasis off of 'John'

In a new 30-second video commercial, Papa John's puts the focus on just about everyone involved in the company except its founder, the embattled and all but…

Rave names president, CAO

September 20, 2018

Rave Restaurant Group, parent company of Pizza Inn and Pie Five, has promoted Pizza Inn President Bob Bafundo to president of the entire restaurant group and…

Does your website throw up hurdles for disabled customers?

California employment litigation attorney, Brian E. Cole II sees website accessability lawsuits soaring, and pizza brands are certainly not immune. In this…

Pizza Rev powers up franchise team, adds incentive program

September 19, 2018

PizzaRev has beefed up its franchise development leadership with the hiring of Ed Yancey as franchising director and Brian Durkin as real estate strategist…

FDA videos show restaurant workers 'real-life' consequences of foodborne illness

September 18, 2018

Restaurant leadership and frontline employees hear a lot about food safety prevention, but little is heard about the illnesses and even deaths that some diners…

Florida restaurant non-profit provides free industry course on human trafficking

September 18, 2018

Representatives from the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association announced the launch of an online training course on human trafficking specifically…

Blaze opens in Florida, Oklahoma, Illinois

September 18, 2018

Blaze PIzza announced three more openings this week in Florida, Oklahoma and Illinois. The Viera, Florida, location opening today on Citadel Way will have its…

Pizza, Pizza begins Vancouver expansion

September 18, 2018

Canadian pizza chain, Pizza Pizza, has opened a store in New Westminster, kicking off a planned expansion throughout Greater Vancouver in British Columbia. The…

Squisito back on the Eastern Shore

September 18, 2018

Squisito Pizza & Pasta has opened its fourth franchised location, this one in Queenstown, Maryland, under the leadership of franchisee, Martin Hernandez, a…

Commodities: Down, down, down ... unless you're Papa John's

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

Pizza operators got a break from most commodity prices last week, which turns out to be a particularly good thing since three of the four brands monitored here…

Domino's peps up Pepperoni Day with promo

September 17, 2018

As surely all pizza operators know, Thursday, Sept. 20, is National Pepperoni Pizza Day, and Domino's is promoting a special to cash in on the marketing…

Russo's Dubai store No. 7 opening next month

September 17, 2018

Russo's New York Pizzeria will open its seventh location in Dubai this October with an open-kitchen design and pizza chef station. A news release said the…

Chipotle food safety chief to speak at Fast Casual Executive Summit

by Cherryh Cansler — Publisher, FastCasual.com

Chipotle Executive Director of Food Safety James Marsden will outline strategies that Chipotle is deploying in its food-safety transformation at this year's…

Pizza Hut, Burger King among 23 chains now ending no-poach pacts

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said that eight additional corporate, "fast-food chains" will end no-poach practices nationwide, joining 1…