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Domino's increasingly dominates the fast-food pizza market

 By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 17, 2025

Despite a host of challenges, Domino’s has only tightened its grip on the quick-service pizza market. Its recent performance has solidified that status.

Financing

Domino’s paints a dim picture of the current environment

 By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 14, 2025

Domino's posted its best sales in nearly two years with a winning $9.99 pizza deal, but even the pizza giant's CFO warns that the broader restaurant industry slowdown is intensifying—and things could get uglier from here.

Financing

Domino's delivers another hot quarter as value pricing sizzles

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 14, 2025

Domino's delivered another strong quarter with 5.2% same-store sales growth, proving that aggressive value pricing and stuffed crust can still move the needle in a brutal pizza market where most chains are struggling to find their footing.

Financing

Papa Murphy's franchisees are not the chain's biggest problem

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 13, 2025

The Bottom Line: The CEO of the take-and-bake pizza chain’s parent company MTY Food Group blamed its problems in part on franchisees’ lack of marketing. But the company faces value concerns and competition from grocery stores.

Financing

A volatile environment and intense competition take a bite out of Papa Murphy's

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 13, 2025

Papa Murphy's continues to close underperforming stores as parent company MTY Food Group works to turn around the struggling pizza chain amid intense competition and declining same-store sales.

Marketing

Domino's unveils its first brand refresh in 13 years

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 08, 2025

The fast-food pizza chain has a new jingle from singer-songwriter Shaboozey, along with new branding featuring bolder colors and typeface. Premium pizzas will get a new black-and-gold box.

Consumer Trends

Pizza menu mentions are up, but so are prices

By Patricia Cobe on Oct. 07, 2025

New research reveals 35% of consumers are ordering pizza less often due to rising prices, with carryout now outpacing delivery. Discover the hottest pizza trends beyond hot honey, from fig jam to smoked Gouda, and learn how operators can win back customers with innovative toppings and strategic value offers in 2025.

Financing

Round Table Pizza franchisees investigate Fat Brands' use of marketing funds after the chain loses advertising for months

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 06, 2025

Operators of the 400-unit pizza chain are probing the company's financial transfers and accounting after its parent company missed a payment to a marketing vendor.

Food

Papa Johns new pizza format dips into a top trend

By Patricia Cobe on Oct. 02, 2025

Behind the Menu: The chain just launched the Papa Dippa, a pizza cut into strips for easy dunking into four dipping sauces, all packed together in a specially designed box.

Emerging Brands

Square Pie Guys is at a crossroads

By Lisa Jennings on Oct. 01, 2025

This Detroit-style pizza concept out of San Francisco will double in size to six units this year. Now the big question: Where to from here?

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