5 pizza menu money-making musts

Research shows the average diner spends just 109 seconds scanning your pizza menu, while on average, 80% of your food sales come from a mere 20% of your menu…

Chuck E. Cheese delivers pizza + play

October 10, 2019

Chuck E. Cheese is giving its delivery customers extra incentive to order a pie from the brand, by giving them pizza in a box that can also provide…

Bavaro's: Building a pizza brand on history

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

Any pizza operator who has ever tried to build a location inside a historic or near-historic location can relate to Dan Bavaro, who spent two years and a whole…

Mod goes to Canada

October 8, 2019

Mod Super Fast Pizza Holdings LLC is expanding into Canada via an agreement with V.I. Pizza Inc., led by Jim Hayden, Jeff Jefford and Ken Whitaker, who operate…

DataVan launches customizable POS system

October 8, 2019

DataVan International Corp., a provider of retail and hospitality technology based in New Taipei City, Taiwan, has introduced a series of products built with a…

Kiosks top customer order technology used by restaurants in 2019

October 8, 2019

Kiosks were the largest customer order technology utilized in the past year among a national sampling of restaurants, according to an online survey conducted…

Domino's 0, disabled 1 in Monday Supreme Court action

October 8, 2019

Those with disabilities that make standard restaurant websites inaccessible won a pretty substantial victory Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to…

Domino's misses mark on Q3 expectations

October 8, 2019

Domino's CEO Ritch Allison said, "It was a good quarter for Domino's," during Q3 2019, but some of the company numbers from its financial report for the period…

Panera SVP giving behind-the-scenes look at innovation strategy

October 7, 2019

Karen Kelley, Panera SVP and chief restaurant operations officer, will keynote the Fast Casual Executive Summit, Oct. 13-15 in Austin.

Koomi teams up with Uber Eats

October 7, 2019

Koomi, a Montreal-based POS system, has partnered with Uber Eats to help independent quick-service restaurants and chains streamline and process digital orders…

Domino's, Pizza Hut + cheese prices all up

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

This week's pizza commodity report reveals a relative oddity in the pizza brand stock values report, while cheese prices trend up, but gas prices show signs of…

Domino's slashes pie price for National Pizza Month

October 7, 2019

This week will be a busier-than-usual one for Domino's franchises, where the brand is offering customers a large two-topping carryout pizza for $5.99 as part…

British losing patience waiting in line for food

October 4, 2019

The British are known for their patience, but when it comes to waiting in line at a restaurant, their patience is wearing thin.

The tongue-wagging 'Wow!' power of Dog Haus + fast casual summit preview

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

From the Tae Kwon Dog to the Bad Mutha Clucka, Dog Haus does dogs, sausages and other eats on a whole other plane. Today, Dog Haus Partner for Marketing and…

Rakuten launches dining rewards, but iOS only for now

October 4, 2019

Rakuten Inc. and Rewards Network have launched a dining discount program called Rakuten Dining. Those enrolling in the program are eligible to receive 5% cash…

Product gives smaller pizzerias branded ordering apps

October 3, 2019

Delivery POS developer, SpeedLine Solutions Inc. said it has launched a new online ordering app for restaurants called SpeedDine online ordering, which allows…

Google-Olo partnership makes ordering as easy as a Google voice search

October 2, 2019

Google and restaurant digital ordering platform, Olo, have joined to allow customers at more than 70,000 Olo-connected restaurant locations to order directly…

200+ unit Pizza Hut operator names CEO, acquires 27 Arby's

October 2, 2019

Pizza Hut store owner/operator, Quality Restaurant Group, has named former marketing and communications company executive Matthew Slaine as its new CEO, while…

Diners want restaurants to catch up with off-premise tech

October 2, 2019

Considering about 60% of restaurant occasions are off-premises across all forms — including drive-thru, takeout and delivery —  it's wasn't shocking to learn…

Pizzeria will make sci-fi a reality with AI-powered assembly line

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

The AI-driven automated pizza assembly line made public this morning promises to take pizza brands' make-stations out of human hands and turn them over to a…