Papa John's FY2016 good, though some disappointed

February 22, 2017

The last quarter of 2016 was relatively good for Papa John's, though there is some indication that investors are disappointed with the company's quarterly and…

Commodities: Mostly positive week for all but Papa Murphy's

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

Last week's stock market and commodities trading action was relatively positive for most pizza brands, which grew in value in overall trading and had some good…

Fake news on McDonald's and Chipotle stopped in its tracks

February 15, 2017

Fake news is again causing problems for the foodservice industry, this time inolving McDonald's and Chipotle. The event also involved reporters at USA Today…

Commodities: Markets show pizza some love

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

February 15, 2017

As we approach the annual day of love this week, traders were obviously getting in the mood last week toward pizza stocks, which got a nice bounce in value…

Yum China tramples expectations; profit up 31%

February 8, 2017

Yum China's first earnings report as an independent company proves that sometimes breaking up can be a very beautiful thing. In fact, its first report since…

Rave Q2 results show Pie Five, Pizza Inn struggles

February 8, 2017

With a new CEO in place now in the form of former Smashburger CEO Scott Crane, Rave Restaurant Group today reported its relatively downbeat Q2 2017 financial…

Commodities: Heavy trading week brings a mixed bag of results

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

In last week's heavy trading, pizza stocks and pizza commodities were all headed in different directions as far as overall value is concerned.

Finnish pizza chain finishes FY up 16.3 percent

February 6, 2017

Finnish pizza chain Kotipizza has reported a 16.3-percent increase in cumulative chain sales for the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31, 2017, for a total of 89.…

Commodities: Stock values rebound, supply prices flatten

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

The bottom line improved last week for pizza restaurateurs as stock prices for four major brands rebounded in value, and commodity prices overall either fell…

Commodities: A painful week for pizza stocks

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

It was a fairly excruciating week for publicly traded pizza brands last week with prices in free fall from the start of trading last Monday.

New York City Domino's: We pay more

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

At a time when the incoming administration in Washington shows little support for increasing the federal minimum wage or putting programs in place to assist…

Study: Small businesses travel bumpy road to make payroll

January 18, 2017

Employment issues continue to create volatile financial hurdles for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, according to news release about a study published…

Commodities: Prices for pizza-makers rise, but so do most pizza stocks

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

The overall production tab for pizza restaurateurs took a hit last week in commodities trading when just about every basic need in the pizza-making and…

US foodservice 2016 Q4 wage growth among best of all industries

January 10, 2017

PayScale Inc. said its latest numbers indicated that food service and restaurant wages grew by 3.6 percent over the past year, far outpacing the national…

Commodities: A (kinda) Happy New Year for pizza prices

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

The first week of trading for 2017 brought mostly better news for pizza restaurateurs, who had a brutal end-of-year week on the markets for 2016.

Commodities: A rocky 2016 ends with pizza stocks falling

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

The last week of 2016 was brutal for pizza stocks, which bled off significant value before the close of trading on Dec. 30.

Commodities: Down, down, down … for all but Domino's

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

Commodities traders were invoking Johnny Cash's lyrics during trading in the week before Christmas, as prices on all pizza chain commodities except auto fuel…

Yum declares 1st dividend after split from China business

December 22, 2016

In its first dividend declaration since separation from its China business, Yum Brands Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share…

Commodities: Little joy to the world in pizza commodity prices

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

Papa John's was the only pizza chain that reported a markedly profitable week, while the other three brands monitored here remaining essentially flat or…

2 studies yield 2016 and 2017 chain winners and losers

December 13, 2016

As the year that was 2016 heads into the history books, year-end awards and year-beginning trend predictions have begun in earnest. For instance, Technomic has…