Commodities: Fairly flat week, except for Papa John's stock price tumble

Great gas prices continued to turn frowns upside down for delivery-centered pizza brands across the U.S., but it was likely not enough to erase the worry…

Blaze opening in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

June 24, 2019

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina will open a new Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza location Thursday, June 27 on Shoremade Road near Greenwise Market. The…

Canada's Pizza Pizza claims launch of '1st all plant-based pizza'

June 24, 2019

Canadian QSR and pizza chain, Pizza Pizza is bringing what it said is the first plant-based pizza to market starting today thanks to a partnership with the…

Chicken Salad Chick + Steritech on scooping up accolades for menu simplicity, food safety

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

This week, the presidents of Chicken Salad Chick and Steritech take the microphone to relay the components of everything from a great scoop of chicken salad to…

Bertucci's, Buca di Beppo partner with Slice app

June 21, 2019

Pizza-ordering app, Slice, has partnered with pizzeria chain's, Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizza & Pasta and Buca di Beppo, to make ordering items from those…

Papa John's to dole out $80M for marketing, US franchisees

June 20, 2019

Beginning in the third quarter of this year, Papa John's said it will push out another $80 million in contributions to its National Marketing Fund and…

Mici noodles around with zucchini

June 20, 2019

Denver-based pizza and pasta brand, Mici Handcrafted Italian, is taking advantage of that tubular green harvest of summer, the zucchini, by using it in…

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Launching a more lucrative pizza brand through tech-assisted recipe costing

by Andrew Rosenbloom — Director of Marketing, Consolidated Concepts

How often do you recipe cost and what factors do you take into consideration? Today, with the proliferation of online ordering tools, POS integrations and…

Leading Canadian Burger King, Pizza Hut franchisee names CEO

June 19, 2019

Major Canadian Burger King and Pizza Hut franchisee, The Redberry Group, has named former Recipe Unlimited Corp. and Boston Pizza executive, Ken Otto, as its…

Crazy Dough's Pizza rebrands a year after GFG acquisition

June 18, 2019

Crazy Dough's Pizza said it is rebranding now, a bit less than a year after it was acquired by Atlanta-based franchisor, Georgia Franchise Group. Rebranding…

Albertsons Companies deploys Toshiba’s self-checkout systems

June 18, 2019

Albertsons Companies is deploying Toshiba's self-checkout systems to reduce wait time, enable faster payment, improve operational throughput and reduce…

Are cracks developing in domestic cheese market?

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

While gas prices prove to be the pizzeria's "gift that keeps on giving" -- thanks to plentiful supply, despite equally plentiful demand -- there are signs…

Shaquille O'Neal puts 'Size 22 footprints' down on 9 Atlanta-area Papa John's

June 17, 2019

Papa John's International Inc. board member and sports icon Shaquille O'Neal has closed on a deal for nine Atlanta-based Papa John's restaurants, including one…

'R2' asks 'R U ready for driverless Domino's delivery, Houston?'

June 17, 2019

The biggest retail pizza seller has partnered with robotics company, Nuro, to bring autonomous delivery with an unmanned vehicle to Houston later this year for…

Is Amazon already back in the food delivery game?

by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com

June 14, 2019

Although Amazon announced earlier this week that it was closing its 4-year-old Amazon Restaurants delivery service, it's not quite out of the food delivery…

KFC US CEO on building a better bucket of chicken + Chowly CEO on streamlining third-party delivery

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

This week we go inside that heavenly scented bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken as we pull back the curtain on the 89-year-old KFC brand with the help of KFC…

Hungry Howie's fires up in Little Rock

June 13, 2019

Hungry Howie's Pizza opened a Little Rock, Arkansas location this week, as part of a multi-unit deal with franchisee, Zac Deem, signed last year. As part of…

Restaurant index: Traffic dips in April, same-store sales post a gain

June 12, 2019

U.S. restaurant traffic declined in April despite restaurant operators reporting a modest net increase in same-store sales, according to the National…

Time is running out to nominate your brand for the 'Perfect Pitch'

June 12, 2019

The deadline is June 14.