Month: December 2011
This Week in Pizza – 12/20/11
Today on This Week in Pizza, Host Chris Green reports on Grimaldi’s new location in Brooklyn, a Seattle-based wood-fired pizza chain supports local school music programs, and Google reveals which restaurants were searched most in 2011.
Pizza Hut is Google's Most Searched Restaurant For 2011
FastCasual.com reports, “The top three pizza chains have had more than just big sales this year. Pizza Hut, Domino’s and Papa John’s were the top three searched restaurants, respectively, on Google in 2011.”
A Pizza-Making Class Rises, Then Falls
NYTimes.com reports, “On Nov. 2, Pizza a Casa, a pizza-cooking school on the Lower East Side, surpassed Central Park and the long-running musical “The Lion King’’ to become the second-highest-rated attraction in New York City on the popular travel review Web site TripAdvisor. The storefront on Grand Street improbably trailed only the Top of the Rock, outpacing even the Statue of Liberty. (TripAdvisor lists 660 attractions for New York.)”
This Week in Pizza – 12/14/11
Today on This Week in Pizza, Smart Cars may change the future of pizza delivery! Also, pizza is booming in Argentina and Pizza Hut Canada has enlisted the help of a talking dog to sell its Ultimate Stuffed Crust Pizza.
Pizza TV's This Week in Pizza – 12/7/11
Today on PizzaTV.com’s This Week in Pizza, hear how one Texas-based chain is reaching out to veterans, the latest pizza news on the Occupy America movement and the heroic story of how one pizza man saved a stranger from a house fire.
Survey: Operators Positive On Sales, Margin Expectations
NRN.com reports, “Restaurant industry same-store sales set records in October, according to the latest NRN-MillerPulse survey, and restaurant operators reported more optimism as margin outlooks for the near term turned positive for the first time in nine months.”
Herman Cain Drops Out Of Presidential Race
LATimes.com reports, “Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a ‘cloud of doubt over me and this campaign.'”