Pizza

Emerging Brands

This New Jersey startup wants to disrupt the ice cream truck business

Scream Truck allows customers to summon its ice cream trucks via text. The high-tech concept plans to expand nationwide, and into other cuisines like pizza.

Financing

Papa Johns puts the focus back on its pizza, and sales improve

The pizza chain’s same-store sales fell 3% last quarter, but the company is seeing improving results through the current period while transactions turn positive. The company’s stock took off.

The pizza chain cut its debt, focused on its core product and found life beyond the mall, all of which helped it thrive despite two bankruptcy filings.

Marketing Bites: The “Survivor”-esque parody has racked up millions of YouTube views, with contestants vying for one of the fast-food pizza chain’s returning pretzel crust pies.

The fast-food pizza chain reported slower-than-expected sales and cut staff amid a continued difficult environment. But it also found a winner with its new stuffed-crust pizza.

A Deeper Dive: This week’s episode of the restaurant finance podcast features an interview with David Karam, CEO of the venerable pizza chain, which has found life outside the mall.

The Bottom Line: Sales at fast-food pizza chains have stagnated for the past three years, according to the Technomic Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. Blame the rise of DoorDash and Uber Eats.

The casual-dining chain created some buzz this week by unveiling a bold new look, only to reverse course with the help of actress and superfan Busy Philipps.

College basketball fever goes beyond sports bars and wing joints this year, as steakhouses, pizza chains and Asian concepts compete to score big.

After a year of re-energizing marketing, simplifying operations and closing 13 restaurants, the 46-unit fast-casual pizza chain now hopes to reach 300 mostly franchised units by 2030.

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