"Fate" moves Pizza Factory into the Lone Star State

May 14, 2021

West Coast-based, Pizza Factory is expanding into the Lone Start State by way of its first Texas location in the city of Fate, a news release said.

Artichoke Basille's opening 2nd Arizona store

May 14, 2021

Artichoke Basille's Pizza will open its second Arizona location May 21 on North 16th Street in Phoenix. The store is also the second location for franchisees…

Ledo Pizza leads Maryland vaccination push

May 14, 2021

Localities across the U.S. are deploying all kinds of incentives to get Americans to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, so American's favored food…

Blaze drizzles a little sweet heat on its Canadian store pies

May 14, 2021

Blaze Pizza has launched an LTO pizza topping, Hot Maple Drizzle, created exclusively for its Canadian restaurants, a news release said.

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Hotdog joint invests in Cartwheel

May 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based Cartwheel, an on-demand delivery management platform for restaurants and retailers, has raised a $1 million seed round led by TenOneTen…

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.

Could Grubhub's commission-free offering lead to 3rd-party showdown?

May 12, 2021

Things are heating up on the third-party delivery landscape, where the players are getting much more competitive on pricing and options.

Papa John's share repurchase to give Starboard 9.5% of common stock

May 12, 2021

Papa John's International Inc. has made a deal with Starboard Value LP, and some of its affiliates, to repurchase and convert all shares of Papa John's Series…

Perks package, international employee sponsorship: 2 ways brands are meeting labor shortfall

May 12, 2021

Worker-lacking restaurant brands across the nation are innovating approaches to attracting what has become the elusive restaurant employee to their stores. As…

Russo's signs Fresno multi-unit deal

May 11, 2021

Houston-based Russo's New York Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen has signed a five-unit franchise agreement for Fresno California with husband-and-wife team…

Digital orders soar during pandemic

May 11, 2021

Restaurant delivery orders grew 124% between March 2020 and March 2021, according to The NPD Group, which found that digital orders for carry-out, which…

Solving the 'too many sources of TV audio' problem in-restaurant

May 11, 2021

Pizza restaurants, sports-centered chains and other foodservice businesses that revolve around an assortment of programming on multiple TV monitors just got a…

Why no workers? Answering a prickly QSR question

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

At least one organization is reporting 76% of the many current and former restaurant workers leaving the industry said they are doing so because they're not…

Coffee 'n' pizza: At Klavon's it's a thing

May 10, 2021

A Michigan-based pizza brand is putting itself out there as the purveyor of a whole new and somewhat unlikely pairing: pizza and coffee.

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…

Lee's Famous Recipe overcoming hiring crisis with AI

May 10, 2021

Although many QSRs have reported that drive-thru traffic is now making up 80% of business thanks to the pandemic, unemployment packages have made it…

Ledo's hiring 1K, just in time for Pizza Party Day giveaway

May 7, 2021

Things are happening at Maryland-based Ledo Pizza lately, beginning with the brand's search to hire more than 1,000 employees for its East Coast shops…

Marco's plans 10% growth to 1,000-store system by year's end

May 7, 2021

Marco's Pizza has signed 88 franchise agreements since the start of the year, as well as development deals to bring 20 units to Colorado, a news release said

The big reveal: FastCasual hosting virtual Top 100

May 6, 2021

Since its creation 16 years ago, the Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers list has recognized the industry's most successful brands, and although this past…