OPERATIONS: In the pizza business, your telephone line is your lifeline

April 13, 2004

As Jim Moran writes, you treat customers right when you greet 'em right on the telephone.

Store closures signal trouble at Paradise Pizza

April 12, 2004

MODESTO, Calif.—Paradise Pizza, a 23-unit operation formed seven months ago from a group of Round Table Pizza restaurants, has closed at least three units.

Will 2004 be the year the pizza industry finally raises prices?

April 6, 2004

As Senior Editor Steve Coomes reports, many operators are countering high cheese and gas costs by raising pizza prices.

Thinking 'round the box

It's clearly innovative, but is there a need in the pizza industry for the Presseal round pizza box?

British Pizza Hut cancels deliveries to 'problem' neighborhood

April 5, 2004

LONDON—Drivers for a Pizza Hut here have refused to deliver the Boundary Way neighborhood because they say it's too dangerous.

Pizzerias not alone in refusing delivery to Muncie neighborhood

April 1, 2004

MUNCIE, Ind.—Denise Dollison can't get pizza delivered to her home in the Parkview Apartments public housing complex in Muncie. And according to the Star…

UPDATE: Teen charged in murder of Philly pizza delivery driver

April 1, 2004

PHILADEPHIA—Homicide detectives charged a 16-year-old boy on April 1 with murder in the March 29 shooting death and robbery of pizza delivery driver Abraham…

Stick up! Thief pinches $1,000 during pizza workers' bank drop

March 31, 2004

CLAIREMONT, Calif.—A man stole about $1,000 from two Domino's Pizza employees as they attempted a bank drop at around midnight on March 30.

JU$TCHEX adds one-click customer refund function for pizza operations

March 31, 2004

OXNARD, Calif.—JUSTCHEX, LLC, a provider of Web-based electronic check recovery processing for returned checks, announced the addition of customer refund…

PIZZA EXPO COVERAGE: Attendees sing the cheese price blues

March 30, 2004

Despite the pizza industry's current rebound, skyrocketing cheese prices are the talk of the town at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas.

NEWS OF THE WEIRD: Pizzeria robbed once, but owner nails second thief

March 30, 2004

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.—The old saying of going to the well one too many times proved true for at least one thief, who broke into the Pro Pizza and Grill…

UPDATE: Pizza delivery driver dies from gunshot wound

March 29, 2004

PHILADELPHIA—Abraham Cisse, a 26-year-old pizza delivery driver for Papa's Perfect Pizza, died on March 29, after being shot in the head by at least one gunman…

Ambush! Philly pizza delivery driver shot in the head, robbed

March 28, 2004

PHILADELPHIA—Philadelphia police are looking for two gunmen who called for pizza delivery and ambushed and shot the driver in the head when he arrived.

Incredible Pizza swallows up 96,000 square-foot abandoned Kmart

March 25, 2004

TULSA, Okla.—Springfield, Mo.-based eatertainment outlet, Incredible Pizza Company, is turning a former Kmart store here into its second outlet—using all…

Pizza delivery driver knifed in Montreal

March 24, 2004

MONTREAL—Montreal police are investigating a March 22 robbery that left a pizza delivery driver hospitalized with stab wounds.

Pizza Pizza offering trans fat-free and whole-wheat pizza menu

March 23, 2004

TORONTO—Pizza Pizza, a 450-unit chain based here, announced it has eliminated trans fats from all its pizza dough and soon will roll out a new whole-wheat…

Gunned down! Pizza delivery driver hospitalized after shooting

March 18, 2004

GREENSBORO, N.C.--A Domino's Pizza delivery driver was shot during an apparent robbery on March 18.

Pizza profits to get a pounding as cheese price may exceed $2

March 17, 2004

In only nine trading days, the block cheese market rocketed an astonishing 32 cents, and at least one analyst believes it will exceed $2 before turning around.

Caught on tape

March 16, 2004

Is buying a video surveillance system for your pizzeria a way to deter criminals from coming in, or a means of catching the ones on your staff?

True Value

March 16, 2004

When selling or buying a pizza business, these rules of thumb will help you pay--or receive--a fair price.