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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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…
read nowStudy: 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…
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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…
read nowUS 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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
read nowYum 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…
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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…
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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…
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Commodities: Supply prices up, stock prices mixed
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
It got more expensive to stock the shelves for pizza restaurateurs last week, but most brands still got a lift in trading over the week.
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Commodities: Pizza stocks fall, gas rises
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The afterglow of a profitable Thanksgiving week of trading on the pizza marketplace is all but gone this week after pizza stock prices returned to a lower…
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Commodities Report: Thanksgiving week gives pizza traders a lot to be grateful for
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza stocks traders were clearly overjoyed at the news last week of a federal injunction halting enactment of the federal overtime pay laws that were set to…
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Last-minute federal injunction halts OT rules
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Less than a week before the overtime regulations were to kick in, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the rule that would have made an estimated 4 million…
read nowStudy: Restaurant traffic slow on Black Friday
November 22, 2016
Although many retailers look to Black Friday as the most successful shopping day of the holiday success, restaurants should not be among them, according to…
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Commodities: Most pizza stocks see bump, supply prices mixed
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Commodity prices were truly a mixed bag this week with the cost of some of the most commonly used items in pizza restaurant operation truly varied, although…
read nowMod Pizza gets $42M investment
November 16, 2016
Mod Pizza has raised an additional $42 million of equity, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and PWP Growth Equity. This is the second round of…
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