Month: May 2010

Four Naperville Coaches Game For New Pizzeria

Four Naperville dads who have coached youth athletics for years are applying their skills to a new team — Coach’s Pizza, a restaurant that recently opened on 1931 S. Washington St. And if their strategy pays off, the new venture is sure to be a winner.

Pizza Patrón thanks Subway for success

According to the Dallas Business Journal, “Pizza Patrón is thanking the Subway Effect — a phenomenon in which buyers expect to pay $5 or less for each meal — as one of the reasons behind its rapid expansion. The company’s recently-opened 100th store is based in Dallas, the same city where it launched its Latin-style pizza concept in 2003.”

Pizza Inn…Blazing New Trails

Pizza Inn, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!pzzi/quotes/nls/pzzi (PZZI 1.77, -0.02, -1.12%) hosted over 200 franchisees and supplier partners from four different countries last week at their annual convention held at the Gaylord Texan. It was an appropriate place for their Blazing New Trails theme!

Tyson Food Service Honored at UniPro Conference

yson Food Service was recently honored with the Center-of-the-Plate Supplier of the Year and overall Supplier of the Year awards by UniPro Foodservice, the nation’s largest foodservice cooperative in the United States. Tyson Food Service executives were presented with the awards at UniPro’s annual conference, held in Las Vegas, Nev.

Papa Johns Gives More Than Pizza to the Troops

Papa John’s Pizza in Centerville, Ohio, hosted a parking lot celebration to raise donations and community awareness for Georgia-based charity HeroBox.org. HeroBox founder Ryan Housley started the charity in May, 2008, to provide stateside families a convenient means to “adopt†a deployed soldier. Adopted soldiers receive care packages called HeroBoxes from their contributing sponsors in the U.S.

PMQ Tackles the NRA Show

Just back from the National Restaurant Association Show held at McCormick Place in Chicago, it’s an understatement to say that PMQ editors and sales staff were inundated with new ideas.

Grimaldis Pizzeria Coming to Bell Tower Shops

According to NaplesNews.com, “I probably shouldn’t be proud of the fact that I’m the Foursquare mayor of both the Kebabery AND the Fish Inn II in my hometown of Bishop’s Stortford. But I am. Even if it hasn’t as yet got me any free chips.”

Return Your SBA Loan Application Today

Disaster assistance applicants who received a U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loan application should fill it out – even if they do not want a loan. A completed loan application is the gateway to determining the type of assistance for which a homeowner or renter may be eligible.