Your Pie franchisee on the power of an empowered staff

Your Pie franchise owner, Bob Rosato, relays his lessons learned about finding, hiring, and keeping great restaurant staff motivated and moving your brand…

Mod Pizza opening 4 units in Dallas-Ft.Worth

June 20, 2018

Mod Pizza is growing its Texas footprint with two Dallas/Fort Worth locations opening this summer and two others by year's end. The first store opens in the…

Donatos to build 3 in Savannah

June 20, 2018

Donatos Pizza has signed an agreement to build three restaurants in Savannah, Georgia, over the next several years, a news release said. The Ohio-based company…

Kotipizza net sales up 12 percent this quarter, new brands in works

June 20, 2018

Things are singing along nicely at European pizza superpower, Kotipizza, where comparable net sales grew 12 percent, and EBITDA grew 19 percent this year for…

Top food trends now: The 'women' have spoken

June 20, 2018

The women have spoken, and they have some interesting ideas about where food is going in the years ahead. Les Dames d'Escoffier International — 2,300 women…

RDI: Why restaurant leaders should know what that means today

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

Where there is a will there's a way and in the restaurant industry consumers "will" take the easiest route to getting food delivered to their doors, one reason…

There may never be a better time for breakfast pizza

June 19, 2018

The time may never be better for pizza restaurateurs to get in on a little breakfast action, which has long been unfamiliar territory for such brands. A recent…

Pizza Hut to cut medically important antibiotics from wings by 2022

June 19, 2018

In less than five years, Pizza Hut said all the chicken it serves will be from animals raised without antibiotics important to human medicine. This includes…

Domino's plants flag in Kosovo with Pristina store

June 19, 2018

Domino's Pizza has opened its first Kosovo store through a partnership with ICSG in the Balkans, Anatron, a news release said. The flagship store in Pristina…

HMSHost CEO elected to NRA board

June 18, 2018

HMSHost President and CEO Steve Johnson was elected to this year's National Restaurant Association board of directors, exclusively representing the airport…

Hunt Brothers brings back chicken bacon ranch pizza

June 18, 2018

Hunt Brothers is bringing one of its' big sellers back as an LTO beginning this week. The brand's Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza is returning for its fourth year…

New York welcomes 11th Blaze Pizza location

June 18, 2018

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza is opening its 11th New York location June 21 at 11 Clifton Country Road, New York,  according to a company press release,

Commodities: Gas demand up, some grades' prices down

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

Despite an all-time high consumer demand, there was downward movement over the last week in some gas prices. Unfortunately, the same trend was in effect for…

FDA holds July 12 public meeting on foods made with animal cell technology

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is holding a public meeting in Maryland on July 12 around the food industry's increasing interest and use of animal cell…

Blaze moves into southern Indiana

June 15, 2018

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza is opening a new location in Clarksville, Indiana in the Metro Louisville area on Monday, June 18, a news release said. The Veterans…

Meatless: It's not just for vegans anymore

June 14, 2018

NPD Group said data shows a clearly higher demand for plant-based proteins today, evidenced by 19 percent growth in cases of such proteins shipped from…

D-min-'s pizza wants your [Type O] blood

June 14, 2018

Domino's will "86" the two "Os" in its name through June 24 to help the American Red Cross tell Americans its Type O blood stores — along with those for the…

Historic Pepe's Pizzeria enters tomato market

June 14, 2018

The 93-year-old New Haven-style pizzeria brand, Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana, is undertaking a very modern-day business launch by producing its own retail tomato…

Slices and 'suds': A match made in beer wall heaven

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Beer on tap. Beer by the pitcher. Beer wall. What's the difference? Well, according to one California pizza restaurateur, the difference is sales.

Blaze opens Northern California store

June 13, 2018

Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza is opening a location Thursday in Vacaville, a news release said. The 2,300-square-foot open kitchen restaurant seats 58 in the…