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Donatos puts 3 more in Virginia
August 10, 2017
Donatos is expanding its footprint in Virginia with an agreement this week for three more locations there, this time in the Virginia Beach market, a news…
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Little Caesars Pizza Portal opens door to 'people-less' QSR experience
August 9, 2017
Little Caesars this week announced it's testing a new tech that basically melds mobile ordering, automatic pick-up and vending to create a new way for…
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Papa John's gluten-free crust goes national ... and back to prehistory
August 9, 2017
Sometimes you have to go way back to get ahead in today's restaurant business. That's exactly what Papa John's has done with its new gluten-free, wheatless…
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Commodities: Domino's recovers ... some
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The first full week of the dog days of August found most pizza brands wagging their tails, particularly Domino's and Papa John's, which saw bumps in value over…
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NRA urges Supreme Court to reverse Labor Dept's 'anti tip-pooling' policy
August 3, 2017
The NRA has taken another step toward fighting The Labor Department's regulation barring tip pools that include kitchen staff. The organization's Restaurant…
read nowYum Brands Q2 financials steady as company accelerates Pizza Hut improvement plans
August 3, 2017
Yum Brands Q2 financial results, for the term ending June 30, show the company's three brands all had worldwide system sales growth, including a 7 percent…
read nowDomino's makes using Alexa to order pizzas even easier
August 1, 2017
Domino's Pizza is expanding the Amazon Alexa ordering platform added last year to include customized ordering without customers needing to have a saved account…
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Commodities: Domino's definitely do fall ... and fast
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The news in pizza stocks last week was Domino's. The brand watched its stock do a peregrine falcon-style dive Tuesday, dropping 8 percent from the previous…
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Chipotle and the 'elephant in the dining room'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The restaurant industry and its players are exhaling today after news that Chipotle might be able to overcome its food safety woes of last week and the…
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Denver pizza chain gets a slice of the Shark Week pie
July 26, 2017
The longest-running cable TV event in history, Shark Week, is upon us and one pizza restaurateur isn't going to miss out on this now 29-year-old event…
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New way to 'try on' best new bottom line-building restaurant tech
July 25, 2017
POS device provider ParTech has partnered with cloud-based API software developer Omnivore to bridge the gap between restaurants and the tech developers and…
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Commodities: Markets yield midsummer merriment for pizza brands
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
It was an especially nice week for pizza stocks, with all four brands monitored here showing healthy gains over the course of the trading week.
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Pizza Hut changes its 'DNA' ahead of adding 14,000 new drivers
July 19, 2017
Pizza Hut wants to add a few ... well, actually 14,000 ... good drivers to its ranks over the next few months, so today the Yum brand's leadership said it will…
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It’s a jungle out there, all right, and its name is Amazon
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
There may never be a more fitting name than that of Amazon, the mega online retailer that has come to demonstrate what the term “It’s a jungle out there…
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Commodities: Last week was 'all mixed up'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
For pizza operators, last week was a grab-bag of results on the commodities and stock markets, where prices paid for public brands and essential operational…
read nowBlaze moves beyond US with biggest deal ever, announces minority owner
July 14, 2017
After officially becoming the fastest-growing brand in U.S. history earlier this week, Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza today said it's moving beyond North American…
read nowGoing UP in a 'Blaze'of glory: Chain now fastest starting in history
July 13, 2017
Blaze Pizza is fastest-starting chain ever, according to Technomic. That's what stories in both Forbes and Quartz are reporting this week, after the chain …
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Domino's moo-ves in to milk some action from 'Cow Appreciation' events
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
What do you do when a competitor has a really good annual promotion that they thought of first? If you're Domino's, you apparently tell the competition to…
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Everything's bigger in ... China?
July 12, 2017
China's restaurant industry is one of the nation's main economic growth drivers, according to a report released by Meituan-Dianping, a foodservice-focused…
read nowStudy on independent brands: Only the strong survive, but they also thrive
July 11, 2017
Staying independent is a pretty rough game for U.S. restaurateurs. Still, survival is not only possible but also relatively profitable for solid concepts with…
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