Uno chases $5 price point for 'National Deep Dish Pizza Day'

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March 29, 2010

Uno Chicago Grill has deemed April 5 National Deep Dish Pizza Day. The "holiday" was first designated in 2009 to celebration the iconic Chicago-style…

Flippers Pizzeria poised for expansion with help of Chute Gerdeman

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March 29, 2010

Flippers Pizzeria, known for its handcrafted pizzas fired in authentic brick-ovens, is taking its 23-year-old concept to the national franchise market. …

NRA seeks 2010 Restaurant Neighbor Award nominations

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March 29, 2010

More than nine of 10 restaurants are actively involved in community service activities, and the National Restaurant Association is now accepting applications…

'Best-in-Class' advertisers targeted Hispanics more in 2009

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March 28, 2010

Facing a bleak 2009, the top 500 advertisers allocated 5.4 percent of ad dollars during last year's recession to reach and connect with Hispanic consumers…

Peter Piper Pizza aims for comeback with digital makeover

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March 25, 2010

Peter Piper Pizza has tapped Santy Integrated, an award-winning full-service marketing communications agency, to revitalize and grow its well-known local brand…

How to leverage a relationship with your Foursquare mayors

Your best customers and word-of-mouth-marketers can be found on this hot location-based service.

Chorus tracks online buzz's conversion to word-of-mouth marketing

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March 23, 2010

Social media consultancy Converseon and word-of-mouth analytics firm ChatThreads have joined to create Chorus, the first system to comprehensively fuse…

Local, search-targeted marketing solutions for smartphones to launch

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March 22, 2010

Multiplied Media Corporation, a provider of mobile local search services, has announced an agreement with US-based Ping Mobile, provider of mobile marketing…

Burke blog lauds guerilla marketing

March 18, 2010

In its March 19 edition of "Out of the Oven Blog," Burke, a premiere meat and pizza toppings supplier, demonstrated some guerilla marketing tactics for…

Pizza crawl pairs with Chevy

March 17, 2010

Popular pizza-centric site WorstPizza.com founder Craig Agranoff has started a pizza tweetup program that lets participants "crawl" and tweet to different…

NakedPizza a 'must follow,' says biz mag

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March 11, 2010

Entrepreneur.com listed NakedPizza's Twitter feed as one to watch in its "10 Essential Tweets" piece. The Twitter account for the New Orleans-based healthy…

Marketers ignore growing Hispanic population, survey says

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March 9, 2010

The 2010 U.S. Census is expected to find that Hispanics number more than 50 million in this country, and they command $1 trillion in buying power. Yet 5…

Commentary: Faking it on Facebook

An institutional foodservice giant is using social media to bring its mascot to life — literally. But will it work?

Little Caesars teams up with Cell Phones for Soldiers

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February 28, 2010

Little Caesar Enterprises Inc. has announced it will be a proud sponsor of Cell Phones for Soldiers during the months of March and April. Little Caesars will…

Hunt Brothers Pizza favored in saturated c-store market

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February 25, 2010

For the fourth consecutive year, Hunt Brothers Pizza has come out on top in the Convenience Store Decisions Readers' Choice Award. Hunt Brothers beat out all…

Pizza food truck looks to blanket Midwest

Streetza Pizza is perfecting a business model for a fleet of mobile kitchens.

Hughes launches LMS iPhone app

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February 23, 2010

Hughes Network Systems LLC, a global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced the the development of a key Apple iPhone application…

Allergyeats.com debuts

New site lets customers rate restaurants' food-allergy-friendliness.

Dawn Professional to award restaurant makeover in contest

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February 23, 2010

Dawn Professional has launched a sweepstakes offering a $20,000 restaurant makeover in its Dawn Make Your Restaurant Shine Contest. The contest is open to U.S.

Schwan's positions frozen pizza with new social media strategy

February 22, 2010

After an extensive review of local and national resources, Schwan's Consumer Brands named Bolin Marketing to help shape and then execute the company's social…