According to USA Today, “The Transportation Security Administration appears to be getting creative in its efforts to recruit new airport security workers. Promising “a career where X-ray vision and federal benefits come standard,” the agency has begun posting help-wanted ads on pizza delivery boxes in the Washington, D.C., area.”

According to NNBW.com, “A pizza restaurant that got its start as a prize-winning entry in a student business-plan competition opened its doors for real last week.”

“MJ’s Pizzeria got its start as a brainstorm by a team led by James Blood, a Truckee Meadows Community College student, during the annual Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition in the spring of 2009. The proposal: A restaurant with a menu that would include vegan and gluten-free pizzas along with more traditional offerings. Judges thought the idea was good enough that the team won a $5,000 award for third place in the competition among collegians statewide. The money was helpful, Blood said last week, but the psychological boost from the award was even more powerful.”

According to ESPN.com, “It was late on my first night in Scotland when I grossed out Nick Faldo.”

Stevi B’s Pizza, the industry’s only national premium pizza buffet restaurant, announces its second annual Free Pizza Day on Thursday, August 19. A twist has been added to this year’s event. Instead of a “build your own†pizza, the giveaway will one of Stevi B’s surprise specialty pizzas To-Go.

A new era for pizza-by-the-slice has arrived, and it’s arrived in an attractive, one handed, mess free container. Pizza Scoopâ„¢ is an all new product that’s taking pizza-by-the-slice to the next level by allowing existing pizzerias to sell pizza-by-the-slice to busy people on the go in a way that works with their busy lifestyle.

Hungry Howie’s Pizza, one of the nation’s largest pizza franchises with over 500 locations in 24 states and the originator of the Flavored Crust Pizza, is taking online ordering to the next level by offering customers the ability to place orders through their iPhone devices.

After a long and courageous battle with a number of health issues, William Burke Sr., founder of Burke Corporation and a pioneer in the fully cooked pizza topping industry, passed away on Friday, July 2, 2010, at the age of 81.

Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza has received the San Diego County chapter of the California Restaurant Association’s Gold Medallion award for Best Pizza.

In spite of the troubled economy, one local company is growing by leaps and bounds. Rotolo’s Pizzeria, the official pizza of the New Orleans Saints & the Louisiana Superdome is opening its thirteenth location this Saturday in Metairie.