Blaze opens 20th Canadian store

July 22, 2019

Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza is opening a store Thursday in Oakville in Ontario, Canada. The Win Park Drive restaurant has an open kitchen, so diners can watch…

SOCi's Google My Business integration puts brands where the online search action is

July 19, 2019

SOCi took another step toward providing its clients chains better capabilities to localize messages system-wide. The chain social media management platform…

Domino's Australia launches proprietary plant-based beef pies in September

July 18, 2019

Domino's Australia is again making headlines by announcing today that it will be that nation's first pizza chain to offer a pizza with plant-based "meat…

Pizzeria idea of the week: Pizza boxes as pet savers

July 18, 2019

A small New Jersey pizza shop is garnering national attention today after Angelo's Pizza in Matawan last week began using their pizza boxes to do some…

Upserve teams with OnDeck to speed financing to restaurants

July 17, 2019

Upserve, a restaurant management platform, will provide online financing options from OnDeck, an online lender to small businesses, under a partnership between…

Biggest Chinese delivery provider launches national charity for riders'/drivers' children

July 17, 2019

The biggest foodservice delivery provider in the world's biggest restaurant delivery market of China is doing something pretty big for its so-called "delivery…

Domino's US same-store sales up just 3%, misses estimates

July 16, 2019

The world's biggest-selling pizza brand was watching its stock value drop at the time of this writing after reporting its Q2 U.S. same-store sales failed to…

Blaze launching crust for keto dieters

July 15, 2019

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza is hoping to attract health-concsious customers by launching a cauliflower crust as well as a ketogenic-approved crust, which contains…

Grubhub calls Schumer's 'fake fee' accusations 'flagrantly inaccurate'

by Cherryh Cansler — Editor, FastCasual.com

July 15, 2019

Grubhub isn't backing down from New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's accusations that it has been charging delivery fees to New York restaurants for orders that…

Domino's AI pizza checker boosts customer quality scores 15% a month in

July 15, 2019

Domino's Australia said its AI/machine learning order accuracy tool — the so-called "DOM Pizza Checker" — is turning in some pretty amazing results, just…

Domino's cashless store test underway in Australia

July 12, 2019

Domino's Australia is testing a new "Tap & Take" payment model at five of its stores, which Domino's will take most other forms of payments, aside from…

Villa Italian Kitchen lives life on the edge with new 'crusts-only' side

July 12, 2019

The fact that some pizza-eaters prefer the crust to the "meat" of the slice itself is finally getting some long overdue attention by New Jersey-based pizza…

The weather effect: Report tracks weather trends related to dining traffic

July 12, 2019

Rain tends to spawn traffic at noodle and ramen QSRs, while so-called "indulgent" brands — along the lines of bakeries and frozen yogurt shops — are nearly…

HotSchedules teams with Fourth on restaurant/hospitality management solutions

July 10, 2019

HotSchedules, a provider of workforce and inventory management solutions for the restaurant industry, and Fourth, a provider of a hospitality workforce…

Rapid Fired barbecues the pie in July

July 10, 2019

Rapid Fired Pizza introduced two July LTOs that capitalize on barbecue flavors. The Luau pizza returns with Applewood-smoked barbecue sauce topped, mozzarella…

&Pizza opening on Wall Street, adds to executive team

July 9, 2019

Washington D.C.-based &pizza, which has 36 locations across the East Coast, is opening its newest unit Wednesday in New York City and has hired or promoted…

Mountain Mike's reopens rebuilt Santa Rosa location destroyed in Tubbs Fire

July 9, 2019

Mountain Mike's has reopened its Santa Rosa location in Northern California that was destroyed two years ago in the Tubbs Fire that burned parts of Napa…

Former McDonald's COO named Papa John's chief restaurant operations officer

July 9, 2019

A veteran McDonald's executive will take the reins of guiding Papa John's North American corporate and franchise restaurants when Jim Norberg steps into the…

Blaze Pizza adding to Canadian portfolio

July 8, 2019

Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza is opening Friday in Toronto at Vaughan Mills outlet shopping destination, according to a company press release.

Consumers say, 'Summertime 'n' the eatin' out's fine

July 4, 2019

Think consumers have totally traded eating out for ordering from home and eating in? Think again. A recent Lightspeed survey of 2,000 U.S. and Canadian…