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Look out for Bubba's 33, Texas Roadhouse's fast-growing, free-wheeling sibling

 By Joe Guszkowski on May 28, 2025

The 52-unit sports bar chain is applying the Roadhouse playbook to burgers and pizza. It has ambitions to become a major player in casual dining.

Operations

Sam’s Club gets into the pizza delivery business

 By Heather Lalley on May 22, 2025

The warehouse retailer is selling "hot, fresh" pizzas for delivery for $8.98, plus fees that can more than double that price tag. Express delivery takes about three hours.

Emerging Brands

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

By Joe Guszkowski on May 15, 2025

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

By Jonathan Maze on May 08, 2025

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.

Financing

How a second bankruptcy helped Sbarro find the comeback trail

By Jonathan Maze on May 06, 2025

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

Little Caesars spoofs reality TV with ‘Pretzel Crust Island’

By Heather Lalley on Apr. 30, 2025

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.

Financing

For Domino's, Parmesan Stuffed Crust Pizza comes at the right time

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 28, 2025

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.

Financing

How Sbarro survived, and thrived, after 2 bankruptcy filings

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 23, 2025

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.

Financing

Once the dominant delivery providers, pizza chains have taken a back seat to aggregators

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 22, 2025

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.

Marketing

California Pizza Kitchen hopes a fake rebrand will get people talking

By Joe Guszkowski on Mar. 27, 2025

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.

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