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Domino's dips, as competitors, commodities trade up

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

Last week was a bit depressing for Domino's investors as the stock price for the pizza powerhouse dropped almost $10 over the week's trading. But all other…

Mercato Partners launches $90M investment fund to fuel up-and-coming brands

June 4, 2020

Mercato Partners, an investor for growth-stage companies, has developed Savory, a $90 million fund to help scale up-and-coming restaurant concepts. To create…

Instant pay: An essential for restaurant delivery drivers?

by Steve Barha — Founder, Instant Financial

A lot of pizza brands are considering deploying directly employed delivery drivers in the current delivery-heavy pizza environment, if they have not already…

Pleased pizza investors pump up prices of publicly held brands

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

The pandemic has proven that people will get their pizza come hell or high water, and that's continuing to prompt pizza company investors to take positive…

Digital Advertising Trends: Taking your Brand’s Message to the Streets

A new, innovative and patented digital Out-Of-Home (DOOH) media promises to reshape the way brands deliver marketing messages within the urban landscape.

COVID-19 pandemic coverage on Pizza Marketplace

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

We've gathered all the ongoing coverage across our food service websites here in one story, which will be added to on a daily basis as news breaks.

Dominos early Q2 performance slowed by choppy international sales

May 27, 2020

Domino's Pizza Inc. reported a 14% rise in U.S. same store sales during the first eight weeks of the fiscal second quarter this year.

Winner, winner, PIZZA dinner: 5 pizza brands land in Top 100 list

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

Five astute and innovative pizza brands took home top honors in this year's Fast Casual Top 100 Movers & Shakers awards. Their accomplishments over the last…

Cheese, wheat, gas prices climb, as year's top pizza stocks fall

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

All the staple ingredients that pizza restaurant companies depend on were trending up in price last week, indicating the industry's increasing pace forward on…

Stoner's opening 3 Georgia stores

May 22, 2020

QSR, Stoner's Pizza Joint, will expand its footprint with three new Georgia locations that will be operated by existing South Florida franchisee, John Stetson.

Cheese prices soar as restaurants seek more

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

As restaurant pandemic restrictions ease nationally and pizza restaurants continue to add business, cheese producers are getting significantly higher prices…

Survey: Only 1 in 12 would dine in a restaurant today

A Denver-based market research firm's latest poll shows Americans are still -- for the most part -- very uncomfortable with the idea of either eating out or…

Latest dine-in data tells story of cautious customers, vanishing workers

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

Restaurant sales data shows the return to dine-in will be a slow and cautious one for customers, according to data and insights provider, Black Box…

Improving Margins with Advanced Reporting

Data is a difference-maker if, of course, it’s used effectively.

KKR leads $43M funding round for Slice independent pizzeria platform

May 13, 2020

Pizzeria ordering and marketing tech platform, Slice (MyPizza Technologies, Inc.) has raised $43 million in Series C funding. KKR led the round with…

QSR online ordering shifts show more older adults orders, desktop user visits

Stay-at-home orders of the last two months have brought about some significant changes in the way Americans order food and which service categories they buy it…

Papa is pleased: Good week for pizza trading is great week for Papa John's

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

Last week's positive Q1 earnings report for Louisville, Kentucky-based Papa John's made for very happy investors, as the brand posted a pick-up in value over…

Golden Chick president promises 500 stores, Netsurion on speeding up contactless pickup

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

Although just 189-stores in size now, Golden Chick is planning a lot of hatchlings for the future, with a goal of 500 stores nationally by 2030, according to…

Papa John's Q1 results reveal turnaround, despite pandemic

May 7, 2020

Despite the many business pressures caused by COVID-19, Papa John's has nearly rebounded from the troubles that beset the company in recent years when it was…