Oath Pizza campaign benefits Boston-based LGBTQ nonprofit in Pride Month

May 26, 2020

June is celebrated every year as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer, or LGBTQ Pride Month and Oath Pizza is taking note of that fact by donating 10…

Pathspot raises $6.5M in financing

May 22, 2020

PathSpot, a creator of a hand hygiene management system, has raised $6.5 million in a Series A round led by Valor Siren Ventures I L.P., bringing the company's…

Uno Pizzeria customers 'pie' it forward

May 13, 2020

Uno Pizzeria & Grill has started its "Pay-It-Forward-Pizza" program, which gives customers a way to do just that by partnering with their local Uno's to…

&pizza: Employee engagement key to tripling off-premise 'overnight'

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

Should a pizza chain give its employees help with everything from down-time fun and fitness, to purpose in their work and mental health support? &pizza thinks…

Papa John's founder gives $1M to small business recovery efforts

April 27, 2020

Papa John's founder, John Schnatter, announced that his John H. Schnatter Family Foundation will give $1 million to help small businesses recover from the many…

Can CMO return Pizza Hut to 'center of pop culture?'

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

Former KFC Global Director of Marketing George Felix, who took the marketing reins of sister brand, Pizza Hut, in January, reveals how he'll breathe new life…

Pizza Inn, Pie Five help customers 'pay it forward'

April 21, 2020

Pizza Inn and Pie Five parent, Rave Restaurant Group has launched its "Feed Essential Workers" programs at both brands to donate meals to health care, grocery…

What could possibly be better than pizza? A pizza with Girl Scout cookies, says one brand

A Northern Kentucky-based pizza brand learned the pandemic was stifling cookie sales for local Girl Scouts, so it made a quick move to boost the troops' annual…

&pizza, Pizza Hut give great feeds + reads, to hospital workers, school kids

April 14, 2020

Pizza chains continue to step up to honor, feed and enrich health-care workers and kids in need of meals amid the closures necessitated by COVID-19. Pizza Hut…

Domino's 6,126 stores give communities 200 pies each

April 6, 2020

Each of Domino's Pizza's 6,126 national stores will provide 200 free pizzas to their local communities, the equivalent of what the company said in a news…

Yum Brands CEO relinquishes salary to fund GM bonuses, employee aid fund

March 31, 2020

The CEO of Louisville-based QSR and pizza brand parent, Yum Brands, is contributing his salary for the remainder of the year to fund one-time $1,000 bonuses…

Pizza vs Pandemic site supports pizzerias, care workers

March 25, 2020

Online pizza ordering platform Slice has partnered with the community non-profit Slice Out Hunger and the Pizza to Polls organization to launch the Pizza vs.

Amidst the pandemic's pandemonium, restaurants reach out to help

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

There is no doubt that the current pandemic will have a riveting effect on all business, including restaurants. Despite that, some brands are still reaching…

Heifer International helps pizza brands help world's hungry

by Liz Ellis — Corporate Brand Partnerships Manager, Heifer International

Pizza brand customers today have made it clear: The restaurants they patronize must also be strong citizens of the world. The global hunger-fighting…

Waste not, want not: 5 tips to trimming restaurant food waste

by Matthew Hollis — President, Elytus

Customers now expect it. Your business benefits from it. The planet demands it. Trimming the food waste your pizza brand generates is no longer an option, but…

Papa John's earns top honors for LGBTQ efforts

January 23, 2020

Papa John's International scored 90% in a major survey of LGBTQ workplace equality corporate policies and practices known as the Corporate Equality Index or…

Pizza Hut campaign helps needy kids 'read up' inclusively

December 3, 2019

Pizza Hut is helping to put great books that are inclusive of all types of people into the hands of needy children this holiday through its campaign with First…

Shaquille O'Neal, Miles College pledge to put Papa John's on 39 black college campuses

October 22, 2019

Papa John's board member and investor, former NBA star, Shaquille O'Neal told Black Enterprise that he is working with Alabama liberal arts school, Miles…

5 ways training can help restaurants prevent sexual harassment

Implementing regular, interactive training that’s customized for restaurant operators can help move the conversation from awareness to action to prevention.

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Domino's 0, disabled 1 in Monday Supreme Court action

October 8, 2019

Those with disabilities that make standard restaurant websites inaccessible won a pretty substantial victory Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to…