The food safety of food tech: An expert's pre-purchase checklists

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

From automated assembly lines, to salad-making robots, food tech is increasingly becoming part of daily life in QSR kitchens. Here, a food tech and safety…

Pizza Hut's new plant-based pie box 'cuts corners'

October 23, 2019

Pizza Hut is ushering in a curvier look beginning today for a limited time with the use of round take-out and delivery boxes on its test of a plant-based pizza…

Papa John's only winner in trading last week

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

Pizza commodity prices trended higher last week, even as traders on Wall Street pulled back their support for all but one of the publicly traded pizza…

Domino's UK 4-nation expansion pulls back, Pizza Hut UK vegan fare pushes forward

October 18, 2019

Pizza action in the U.K. this week, includes some pullback from European expansion by Domino's in the U.K. and extra vegan offerings at its rival, Pizza Hut…

Fancy Foods shows' host rebrands, widens membership

October 15, 2019

The 67-year-old Specialty Food Association — representing 3,800 member companies in the $148 billion specialty food industry — is itself rebranding. The SFA…

Domino's, Pizza Hut + cheese prices all up

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

This week's pizza commodity report reveals a relative oddity in the pizza brand stock values report, while cheese prices trend up, but gas prices show signs of…

Pizzeria will make sci-fi a reality with AI-powered assembly line

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

The AI-driven automated pizza assembly line made public this morning promises to take pizza brands' make-stations out of human hands and turn them over to a…

Domino's takes a hit from traders, while pizza commodity prices fall

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

Domino's was the big loser of the Big Three publicly traded pizza brands in trading the last week of September, but all pizza brands got some breaks from…

Pizza — good for what ails ya' ... if you eat it in Italy

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

The annual Harvard 'Ig Nobels' are out and pizza is in, as long as it's pizza in Italy.

Pizza players see hefty hikes in cheese, wheat, gas prices

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

Last week was harder to swallow than most on the markets for pizza brands, with only moderate gains in some pizza brand values, but steeply higher wheat…

1000 Degrees Pizza on wrangling 25+ delivery providers into better business

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

As third-party delivery platforms proliferate, pizza restaurateurs are challenged to lasso customers' demand into their daily business flow. After all, as…

Circles gets squared when Pizza Hut pies morph into giant Cheez-Its

September 17, 2019

Pizza Hut has partnered with longtime snacking favorite, Cheez-It to introduce the globe's first and only giant-sized version of the cheesy crackers, only…

As cheese prices surge, gas price spike set to also strike delivery-centric pizza biz

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

After weekend drone attacks sliced Saudi oil output in half, the delivery-centered pizza business may soon get a one-two punch from both higher gas prices, and…

Mici's does day for daughters Sept. 25

September 16, 2019

Family-owned Denver pizza brand, Mici's, is setting Sept. 25 aside to honor one particular member of the family: daughters. That Wednesday also happens to be…

Fired Pie, Your Pie add new menu options

September 13, 2019

Two pizza brands are adding menu options this week, beginning with a plant-based offering at Fired Pie, where the chain's plant-based chorizo crumbles are now…

Hurricane season: Failing to plan now, may be planning to fail later

by Andrew Rosenbloom — Director of Marketing, Consolidated Concepts

While Hurricane Dorian has largely passed, after devastating the Bahamas and spurring flooding in North Carolina, the torrential rains and furious winds of the…

Artichoke Basille's founders open 2nd Detroit-style pie brand location in NYC

September 11, 2019

Artichoke Basill's founders said this week they will open a second location of their Detroit-style pizza brand, Lions & Tigers & Squares (LTS for short…

Domino's, Pizza Hut parent see nice stock price hikes

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

As gas prices show signs of starting to stabilize, most of the major pizza players enjoyed higher stock prices last week.

Blaze gets 'large and in-charge'

September 9, 2019

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza is now offering a large pizza, designed for sharing, according to a news release, which said that the menu addition is part of a major…

'There's oil in those grills!' - Turn it from wasteful to useful

Every restaurant brand is working today to cut food waste, and one of the easiest and potentially valuable ways to do that is by giving your stores' used…