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'30 or free' offer costs Domino's Pizza India 10k pies
June 21, 2004
NEW DELHI—Domino's Pizza India's "30 minutes or Free" guarantee has boosted the past six weeks' sales by 15 percent, but according to the Financial Express…
read nowMovie tells the story of the pizza delivery "hero"
June 20, 2004
Moviemaker Tim Beideck wants America to see what really goes on in the lives of pizza delivery drivers, so he created "Drivers Wanted." The independent film…
read nowCompetitive eaters face off with pizza in Chicago
June 20, 2004
CHICAGO—Competitive eaters like oysters because they go down easy. Hot dogs are good, too, because you can soak the buns in water for quicker gobbling.
read now''Black Widow' bites competition in pizza-eating contest
June 20, 2004
CHICAGO—Sonya "the Black Widow" Thomas notched her seventh competitive eating title in 2004 at the Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship in Downers Grove…
read nowStrege returns to Straw Hat Pizza as area director
June 20, 2004
SAN RAMON, Calif.—The Straw Hat Pizza Cooperative announced that Allen Strege is returning to the 50-unit company as its northern area director.
read nowTwo injured in Darby pizza shop shooting
June 17, 2004
DARBY BOROUGH, Pa.—Police are looking for a gunman who shot and robbed employees of a pizza shop on June 16.
read nowPizza Hut domestic May/June comps up 4%
June 16, 2004
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Comparable-store sales at U.S. corporate Pizza Hut units rose 4 percent for the four-week period ended June 12, 2004.
read nowSolo 401k plan boosts investment opportunities for self-employed business owners
June 15, 2004
LA JOLLA, Calif.—Third-party administrator 401kBrokers.com has launched its new Solo 401k plan for self-employed businesspersons.
read nowPizza operators using CAPS never see bounced checks
June 15, 2004
MILWAUKEE—Universal Nationwide, a division of Universal Savings BancHoldings, Inc., announced the signing of a deal with a large regional Dominos Pizza…
read nowPress Release: Regional Dominos Franchisee to utilize Universal-Nationwide's CAPS-Check Assurance Protection System!
June 15, 2004
CAPS: Check Assurance Protection System PizzeriasMilwaukee, Wisconsin: May 5, 2004
read nowPizzeria Regina management slapped with sexual harassment suit
June 14, 2004
BOSTON—Four longtime waitresses at Pizzeria Regina filed a sexual harassment suit against three officials at the legendary North End restaurant.
read nowExpect cheese price to soften some, analyst says
June 14, 2004
LYNDEN, Wash.—Dairy market analyst Alan Levitt believes that the $1.80 per-pound price on cheddar blocks traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange may fall…
read nowSalad sales in burger segment should leave pizza ops green with envy
June 13, 2004
Salads sales have boosted profits in the burger segment, and that benefit could be duplicated in pizza. At the very least, it'll take some heat off cheese…
read nowPizza Inn CEO pays off stock option loan
June 13, 2004
THE COLONY, Texas—Pizza Inn President and CEO Ronald W. Parker has repaid the $676,000 balance on a loan given him by the 400-unit chain to purchase its stock.
read nowDomino's Pizza re-enters Wichita market
June 13, 2004
WICHITA, Kan.—Though it left Wichita two years ago, Domino's Pizza wants to return to the market where Frank and Dan Carney founded rival Pizza Hut.
read nowRaises for restaurant CEOs outpace frontline workers' in 2003
June 10, 2004
DALLAS—The 2004 People Report Corporate Compensation and Benefits Survey showed that raises given restaurant industry employees last year were smaller than…
read nowTwo men assault, shoot at pizza employee dumping trash
June 9, 2004
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Two men assaulted and shot at a pizzeria employee in an attempted carjacking shortly after midnight on June 9.
read nowPizza Patron set to tap Hispanic market in Denver
June 9, 2004
DENVER—When Randy Schmidt opens the first of four planned Pizza Patron units this summer, his stores will be staffed with Spanish-speaking workers—serving…
read nowSchnatter, CEO of Papa John's, hospitalized after cycling wreck
June 8, 2004
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John's, was hospitalized following a cycling accident here on June 2.
read nowNew product rollouts shine positively on Pizza Inn
June 8, 2004
Working to reverse its negative sales trends, Pizza Inn is rolling out new products, including the 4 Pack Sampler.
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