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Q3 comps jump 7% at California Pizza Kitchen
October 10, 2005
LOS ANGELES — Comparable-store sales at California Pizza Kitchen rose 7.1 percent for the 12 weeks ended Oct. 2. According to a news release, the strong sales…
read nowThe dangers of deep discounts
October 9, 2005
Many claim discounting is a necessary evil in the pizza business, but experts say prices don't have to be dramatically low to be competitive. The numbers prove…
read nowEagle Boys Pizza seeks QSR share via drive-thru
October 9, 2005
The Age: Eagle Boys Pizza doesn't consider itself just a pizza player. It wants a cut of the action long dominated by quick-service hamburger and chicken…
read nowNew promos helping grow Domino's Pizza Australia
October 9, 2005
Australian Business Review: Much of Domino's Pizza Australia's explosive growth in Australia and New Zealand has come on the heels of relentless new product…
read nowJacent voice ordering system automates 1 millionth order
October 6, 2005
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jacent Technologies announced its flagship product, Jacent Voice Center, has automated its 1 millionth phone order.
read nowYour Bag Lady intros PizzaHot bag for carryout
October 6, 2005
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Your Bag Lady is introducing a new insulated take-home bag for carryout customers, called the PizzaHot.
read nowSTRANGE NEWS: Canadian official scolded over $118 pizza tab
October 5, 2005
Reuters: If only every pizzeria had this kind of a check average!
read nowThree nab 5 prizes in Long Island pizza festival
October 5, 2005
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Three pizzerias took home five prizes in the third-annual Best Pizza on Long Island Festival and Bake-Off.
read nowSex scandal forces Picurro to sell pizza company
October 5, 2005
KOLD.com: Amid charges he solicited sex from minors over the Internet, Peter Picurro has sold his six-unit Tucson, Ariz., company, Picurro Pizzeria, to a…
read nowPizza dough acrobats to dazzle on Discovery 'Short Takes'
October 5, 2005
NEW YORK — Members of the World Pizza Champions acrobatic dough-tossing team will appear in multiple segments of the Discovery Times Channel Short Takes series.
read nowFormer Domino's exec, Connie's Pizza, partner on vending machine
October 5, 2005
The Detroit News: Former Domino's Pizza executive, Don Vlcek, and Connie's Pizza, a multi-unit Chicago chain and frozen pizza manufacturer, have partnered to…
read nowVocelli Pizza sued over connection to defunct Italian Oven
October 4, 2005
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A handful of Vocelli Pizza franchisees are suing the pizza company for not disclosing that some of its executives filed for bankruptcy…
read nowPapa Gino's celebrates Pizza Month with free Rustic slices
October 4, 2005
DEDHAM, Mass. — Twenty-two Papa Gino's units will celebrate National Pizza Month (October) by giving away free slices of the chain's new thin-crust Rustic…
read nowFigaro's Pizza promotes Mills to ops EVP
October 4, 2005
SALEM, Ore. — John Mills has been promoted to executive vice president of operations at Figaro's Italian Pizza Inc.
read nowPizza Hut comps slip 3% in September
October 4, 2005
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Yum! Brands, parent of Dallas-based Pizza Hut, reported a September comparable-store sales decline of 3 percent at the chain's 1,76…
read nowCheese price plummets 19 cents
October 3, 2005
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The price of cheddar blocks traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange finally took a long-awaited 19-cent nosedive to trade at $1.6050 on June…
read nowNorthStar and Revention form POS-check recovery alliance
October 3, 2005
TULSA, Okla. — NorthStar Technologies and Revention have teamed up to combine Revention's turnkey point-of-sale solution with NorthStar's check recovery…
read nowA POS with a memory for numbers
October 3, 2005
Most every operator has suffered this mistake: You just completed a phone order on your POS and you're ready to hit the Send button to move it to the kitchen…
read nowThe price is right
October 3, 2005
The scenario is all-too-common: A customer presents a coupon for a $9.99, three-topping pizza, but he only wants one topping. The order-taker rings up the…
read nowTime saver or work maker?
October 3, 2005
Though they're technologically marvelous, automated ordering software in POS systems sometimes generate more work than they save. Their time will come, experts…
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