DALLAS Competitors Pizza Hut and Domino's used measurements -- including pepperoni count -- in an exchange of press releases Tuesday that debated which chain offered the best value. Pizza Hut is pushing its Pizza Mia deal, in...
MINNEAPOLIS —Ninety seconds. That’s the amount of time it takes for chefs at Punch Neapolitan Pizza to bake fresh ingredients into a pizza that prompted Meryl Streep to proclaim it is the best she has ever eaten. But even though speed...
VANCOUVER Wash. Ann Stone, a former marketing executive with Pizza Hut, Church’s Chicken and International Dairy Queen, has been named chief marketing officer for the Papa Murphy’s International take-and-bake pizza chain. Stone most...
Quick-service restaurant operators that have turned to outside firms to screen job candidates report immediate improvements in worker retention, offering relief from the segment’s notoriously high turnover. Atlanta-based Church’s...
With profit margins shrinking by the minute and loans more difficult to come by, more operators are garnering elusive capital for growth by selling their real estate assets and then leasing them back. Last month, Lone Star Funds, the...
As the competition heats up in a challenging economy, one pizza chain has offered a simple thank you–in written form–to its guests. And the program has been helpful in boosting sales.Gatti’s Pizza of Austin, Texas, kicked off 2008 with a...
SAN DIEGO Starbucks faces a nationwide spate of what it called “copycat” lawsuits, the coffee-house giant’s planned appeal here of a $106 million judgment in favor of some 100,000 baristas is expected to shed light on a gray area in California’s...
