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Financing

MOD looks to carve a slice of Wall Street for fast-casual pizza

 By Heather Lalley on Nov. 23, 2021

The 500-unit pizza chain started the initial public offering process this week, hoping to be a success story in a segment that has struggled during the pandemic.

Financing

MOD Pizza says it plans to go public

 By Jonathan Maze on Nov. 22, 2021

The largest of the fast-casual pizza players has confidentially filed IPO documents. It would be the eighth such industry IPO this year.

Marketing

Why Domino’s gave out gift cards to local restaurants

By Jonathan Maze on Nov. 16, 2021

Operators in several markets handed them out to random delivery customers as part of the company’s effort to highlight high fees for third-party delivery.

Food

Operators target families with holiday bundles and healthier kids’ menus

By Patricia Cobe on Nov. 15, 2021

Taste Tracker: Panda Express upgrades kids’ meals; pizza deals at CiCi’s and Pasqually’s; holiday specials at Chicken Salad Chick, Peet’s, Cinnaholic, Portillo’s and Logan’s; Arby’s does vodka; and more news.

Marketing

Papa Johns ditches the apostrophe

By Jonathan Maze on Nov. 15, 2021

A look inside the pizza chain’s rebranding, including a new logo that distances itself even further from its embattled founder, John Schnatter.

Technology

800 Degrees unveils robotic pizza spinoff, 800 Go by Piestro

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 12, 2021

The 800 Go brand will also feature brick-and-mortar restaurants and ghost kitchens under a new joint partnership with Piestro.

Financing

Papa John’s sales accelerate even as more normalcy returns

By Jonathan Maze on Nov. 04, 2021

The pizza chain's sales improved in September as consumers order more stuffed crust pizzas and Papadias while watching sports and entertainment.

Financing

BurgerFi completes its $157M purchase of Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza

By Heather Lalley on Nov. 04, 2021

The better burger chain said the acquisition is its first in a long-term plan of building a multi-brand restaurant platform.

Financing

Consumers are not necessarily eating more pizza

By Jonathan Maze on Nov. 04, 2021

Instead, more people are eating pizza, at least according to Papa John’s. It dispels a key myth of the pandemic.

Leadership

MOD Pizza hires HR vet Dayna Eberhardt as chief people officer

By Heather Lalley on Nov. 03, 2021

Eberhardt previously spent more than 13 years in various human resources roles at Starbucks.

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