Month: December 2007

According to a news report from shelbynews.com, “Chad Hart and Bruce Keener just didn’t have the stomach for it Monday afternoon – eating all of that pizza, that is.”

According to a news report from www.itnews.com.au, “A YouTube video highlighting the “small offerings†of some Australian pizza chains has attracted more than 23,500 viewers in less than 72 hours, making it the seventh most viewed clip in Australia this week.”

This week we’ll be speaking to Rosemary Black, food editor for the New York Daily News. Rosemary will tell us about a online contest administered by her paper in which readers were asked to name the best pizzeria in each of New York’s five boroughs. Tune in to hear about some classic local pizza favorites […]

All the hottest pizza news for the week before Christamas, 2007.

According to a news report from wwsb.com, “Grant Setsma is turning 8 years old Saturday. Instead of presents and toys, he’s asking for money to help his friend Anthony Negrin. Anthony is diagnosed with a potentially fatal, rare blood disorder, fanconi anemia.”

According to a news report from www.stuff.co.nz, “A hungry American tourist bit off more than she could chew when she tried to cook lunch in her hotel room.”

According to a news report from chicagotribune.com, “There was a time when a younger, considerably thinner version of me made regular pilgrimages to Uno, or to my other favorite, Lou Malnati’s. (This makes sense, as the two pizzerias have a common history–Rudy Malnati, Lou’s father, managed Pizzeria Uno in its formative years.) My wife and I held our wedding rehearsal dinner at the Lincolnwood Lou Malnati’s.”

The first state final in the 2008 Dairy Farmers Best Of The Best Pizza Challenge will be the Queensland State Final. It will run in two parts over two days during Fine Food QLD. Day One will focus on the Traditional Category and Day Two, the Gourmet Category.

Ask anyone what makes a great pizza, and chances are they’ll name the major challenge that each restaurant or food services faces in attempting to create a memorable signature pizza – the crust. All the exotic toppings in the world cannot make a signature pizza out of a lifeless crust.

All the hottest pizza news for the second week of December 2007.

Mike Wick is president of On Hold Messages, a Houston, TX -based company that offers customized messages to play for your customers while they’re waiting to place a phone order at your store. Mike will describe the benefits of such a system and tell you how it can increase your ticket totals.

The National Restaurant Association will release its 2008 Restaurant Industry Forecast and unveil its public policy agenda for the coming year at a press conference on Wednesday, December 12 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.