Commodities: Domino's gets in a 'fall' mood, down $25+ in 2 weeks

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

The calendar says fall and most pizza stocks did, with little relief on the commodities price front as well.

Domino's wraps up 99 quarters of worldwide, same-store sales gains

October 16, 2018

Domino's Pizza's  Q3 financial results showed strong growth in same-store sales, global store counts and earnings per share. Domestic same-store sales grew 6.…

Commodities: Fuel prices fire up, most stocks slide down

Fuel continued to push up in value, while most pizza brands tracked on this site trended down.

Commodities: 3 brands get National Pizza Month gifts from investors

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

While commodity trading was a mixed bag last week, pizza investors were in a good mood and plunged some of their cash into three of the four brands monitored…

Rave Restaurant Group reports 6th quarter of growth for Pizza Inn, Pie Five struggles

September 27, 2018

Pie Five and Pizza Inn parent, Rave Restaurant Group, Inc. said its fourth-quarter results indicate comparable store retail sales increased 0.4 percent over…

Commodities: Investors do a U-turn from last week in favored brands

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

The tables turned this week in pizza stock trading as investors shifted their confidence in Papa John's from a week earlier to the three other publicly traded…

Study: Restaurant brands going public can rake it in with 2-stage IPO

September 20, 2018

Restaurant leadership mulling over the process of taking brands public would do well to listen to some of the recent findings from a Florida Atlantic…

Rave names president, CAO

September 20, 2018

Rave Restaurant Group, parent company of Pizza Inn and Pie Five, has promoted Pizza Inn President Bob Bafundo to president of the entire restaurant group and…

Commodities: Down, down, down ... unless you're Papa John's

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

Pizza operators got a break from most commodity prices last week, which turns out to be a particularly good thing since three of the four brands monitored here…

Commodities: Changes ahead?

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

Changing weather, politics and consumer demand could foreshadow equally changing commodity and stock prices in the weeks ahead. This week though values for…

Commodities: The cheese stands alone ... its higher prices week's only down news

Commodity and stock prices gave pizza restaurateurs a very nice Labor Day send-off last week — the unofficial end of summer in the U.S.

Commodities: The 'dog days of summer' toss pizza operators a bone

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

The end-of-summer weather may be sweltering, but pizza operators had little to sweat last week.

Commodities: Papa John's pulls out of nosedive, while Domino's dips

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

In trading, both commodities and stock, it has been a truly up-and-down week for pizza restaurateurs.

Pizza Pizza, Pizza 73 have disappointing Q2

August 9, 2018

The parent company of Pizza Pizza and the Pizza 73 chains shared disappointing quarterly and half-year financials today for the period ending June 30. Pizza…

Papa John’s: 'Actions of 1 person' could cost brand $50 million this year

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

Leadership at Papa John’s took on the woeful task last night of talking to investors about the brand’s devastating second quarter financials, vowing not to let…

Kotipizza's record-breaking July hits $12.7M in sales

August 7, 2018

Kotipizza can do no wrong lately, and that luck held out for the brand in July when it broke a personal best sales record, hitting total monthly sales of 11.…

Commodities: Most brands rebound

Most pizza brands rebounded in value last week, while commodity prices remained fairly tame.

Pizza Hut performance drags down Yum China Q2 results

August 2, 2018

Yum China reported an overall 1 percent dip in same-store sales for the company during Q2 2018, stemming from a hefty 4-percent drop in its Pizza Hut brand's…

Papa John's pays dividend, wins back Texas Rangers

August 2, 2018

Papa John's — which is scheduled to release its financial results next Tuesday — said that it will pay out its quarterly dividend rate of $0.225 per common…

Commodities: Pizza brands take a beating

Last week was a tough one for most pizza restaurateurs as the prices for all essential commodities rose, while all but one brand monitored by this site…