Pizza Inn pins 60th birthday giveaways on loyalty, social media

January 16, 2018

Pizza Inn is celebrating its 60th birthday by hosting a year-long celebration with giveaways including a 1958 Ford Skyliner hardtop convertible for one of…

RedBrick serving all-organic wheat dough

January 16, 2018

RedBrick Pizza Kitchen Cafe is offering an organic wheat dough option for its Neopolitan pizzas.

Blaze Pizza opening NY, California and Illinois locations

January 15, 2018

Thursday is a big day for Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza when the chain opens the doors to three units across the country. Locations include a 2,500-square-foot unit…

Commodities: Somebody must have hit replay ... but no complaints

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

It was another nice week of pizza stock trading and largely lower commodity prices last week, almost an exact replay of the previous week's financial stats.

7 ways tech can ease managers' employee management efforts

Some forward-thinking brands are already using comprehensive workforce management solutions to automate time-consuming, error-prone efforts related to time and…

Restaurateurs will see 'immense operational changes' in 2018

January 12, 2018

Operations platform, Fourth, sees what it calls "immense operational changes" happening across the restaurant industry as tech of all kinds is deployed…

LevelUp launches broadcast service to drive restaurant discovery

January 11, 2018

LevelUp has launched a broadcast service to help restaurant brands reach consumers within a network of highly trafficked digital channels, including Facebook…

Toast partners with SpeedETab to offer white label app

January 11, 2018

Restaurant technology providers Toast and SpeedETab have partnered to offer restauranteurs a white label app solution with order-ahead technology. "In our…

Freshii CEO, founder keynoting 2018 Restaurant Franchising and Innovation Summit

Early bird registration ends Friday.

Diebold Nixdorf launching order-taking kiosks

January 11, 2018

Diebold Nixdorf has created the K-Two Kiosk, which provides order-taking capabilities at QSRs and fast casual restaurants. It also automates routine tasks and…

Blaze makes leadership changes

January 10, 2018

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza today announced the addition of four key members to its leadership team in support of the company's goal to exceed $1 billion in…

Domino's CEO leaves a chain reborn, flying high

January 10, 2018

Domino's President and CEO J. Patrick Doyle will step down in June from the top spot at a chain he led from its "cardboard crust" and "ketchup" sauce days to…

Columbus, Ohio, the test market capital, to open 1st food hall

January 9, 2018

The restaurant test marketer's dream city of Columbus, Ohio will soon house the city's first-ever food hall in the 102-year-old Budd Dairy building in the…

Domino's Australia gives vegans the pies they want

January 9, 2018

Domino's Australia is launching a range of vegan pizzas that use vegan mozzarella — including the vegan avocado veg, vegan spicy trio and vegan margherita — at…

Pizza Hut/Toyota pair on self-driving car that might cook, too

January 8, 2018

First it was Ford and Domino's pairing to further the interests of each in autonomous delivery vehicles, now comes Pizza Hut and Toyota, who this afternoon…

Commodities: Stock prices pumped up, but pump prices siphon gains

Pizza brands did well as the market soared on Wall Street last week, but the highest New Year's pump prices since 2014 stole back some of the profits.

Russo's launches "on-the-go" brand

January 5, 2018

Russo's New York Pizzeria has launched a pizza and pasta-focused concept — Next Generation Pizza & Italian. Founder and CEO Anthony Russo said he designed…

Profit-saving pre-planning pointers for mobile order/pay systems

by Christopher Sebes — president, Heartland Commerce

Pizza restaurateurs stand to gain a great deal for mobile ordering and payment apps, but only if operators pre-plan well in advance for the operational changes…

Nominations open through Jan. 31 for FastCasual Top 100 Movers & Shakers

January 4, 2018

The deadline to nominate brands is Jan. 31.

Labor Department rule would open large group health insurance to small restaurateurs

January 4, 2018

The U.S. Department of Labor this morning proposed a rule that it says will allow more small businesses to offer health insurance through what it is calling…