Pizza Hut Australia offering treats via Facebook

December 5, 2010

Pizza Hut fans in Australia can earn a free pizza simply for getting social.

Papa John’s names fantasy football league finalists

December 2, 2010

As fantasy football teams across the country load up for a playoff push, owners in five elite leagues will square off to determine which league reigns supreme.

Jerry's Subs and Pizza founder immortalized in wax

December 2, 2010

Jerry of Jerry's Subs & Pizza has been re-created in wax for display at Madame Tussauds in Washington, D.C. The wax figure honoring the metropolitan…

Papa Murphy launches gift card sweepstakes

December 1, 2010

Papa Murphy's International has announced a sweepstakes via the company's Facebook page. The "Colossally Massive Super Ginormous Sweepstakes" runs…

SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza partners with Nonprofit Connect

November 30, 2010

SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza is launching an exclusive program with Nonprofit Connect to offer its members a 30 percent discount on catering and a reduced delivery…

Pizza Hut’s Cheesy Bites Pizza lights up the holidays

November 30, 2010

Calling all Clark Griswald wannabes: Pizza Hut is searching for America’s best holiday light displays in honor of the return of its Cheesy Bites Pizza.

Huddle Up: MaMa Rosa’s serving football-inspired pizza

November 30, 2010

Are you ready to tackle pre-game get-togethers? MaMa Rosa’s, a leading manufacturer of branded, refrigerated pizza, is distributing a new, helmet-shaped pizza…

Domino’s Pizza fuels up holiday shoppers

November 23, 2010

Thanksgiving Eve may be one of the busiest pizza delivery days of the year, but Domino’s also is gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Zpizza launches rustic line of pies

November 22, 2010

Zpizza is looking to start a pure pizza revolution with its new Rusticas, personal-sized free form crust pizzas, made with 100 percent certified organic wheat…

Papa Gino’s launches customer-interaction solution

November 22, 2010

Conversen Inc., a provider of cross-channel marketing solutions, has partnered with Open-i Media and Papa Gino’s Pizzeria to help the restaurant chain bring a…

Pizza Inn appoints new VP of marketing

November 17, 2010

Pizza Inn Inc. has appointed Kendra Shier to the position of vice president of marketing. A restaurant and marketing veteran with more than 20 years of…

Little Caesars sells new Kid Rock CD

November 17, 2010

In an interesting turn of on-premise merchandising, Little Caesars has announced itself as the exclusive restaurant outlet for Kid Rock’s latest CD, “Born…

Exit41 launches Facebook ordering app

by Valerie Killifer — Editor, FastCasual.com

November 16, 2010

Exit41 has officially launched a new web-based solution that will let Facebook fans of restaurant brands order meals via the social networking site. The app…

Cameras are rolling on Texas Pizza Hut employees

November 16, 2010

Cameras started to roll this week in Dallas for new Pizza Hut spots that feature real employees, according to a story in the Dallas Morning News. It’s part of…

GrubHub: Like Facebook for restaurateurs?

November 14, 2010

Could online ordering be as big as Facebook for the restaurant world? Possibly, now that online ordering outlet GrubHub has secured another round of…

Pizza Hut 'thanks' deal looks familiar

November 11, 2010

Pizza Hut is launching a new deal that looks a lot like Domino's two mediums for $5.99 each promotion. From November 11-20, two medium pizzas with up to three…

Pizza Patron offers '3 for $10' deal

November 10, 2010

Pizza Patrón has launched a new limited-time offer - a "3 for $10 Paquetazo" - that includes three one-topping medium Amigo Pizzas for $10. Now through Dec.

CPK awards $100,000 Thank You Card prize

November 7, 2010

California Pizza Kitchen Inc. has announced that Houston resident Shirley Pope has won the $100,000 online sweepstakes as part of the restaurant chain's…

USDA agency eyed for funding Domino's “Oh Yes We Did” campaign

November 7, 2010

A bombshell front page New York Times article from Sunday characterizes Domino's successful "Oh Yes We Did" as the brainchild of a USDA agency that helped fund…

Two-in-one pizza box offers get trendy

October 31, 2010

The new trend in pizza is a step beyond price bundling. It's product bundling in the pizza box.