Tight credit restrictions and high loan eligibility requirements are leaving business owners-and pizza operators in particular-with few options when they need working capital to fund renovations and repairs or purchase much-needed, expensive equipment.

“A 20-year-old Slidell man was sentenced to more than three decades in prison for robbing a pizza delivery driver at gunpoint for his wallet, cellphone and pizzas, reported the New Orleans Times-Picayune.”

“I feel like New Orleans is actually paying attention to pizza now, and I want people to see what’s happening in this city.”

While continually rising gas prices remain the big headline for businesses, pizza operators can enjoy a bit of a relief in wheat and natural gas prices. Also, cheese has remained steady for about a month. Cheese Average block cheese prices dropped a penny last week to $1.47 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, from $1.48 the […]

“Naked Pizza, an all-natural pizza restaurant, opened its doors in Reston on Saturday.”

“Rose Marie Cioppa used to pile up french fries on the plates of undernourished students in the Woodland Hills School District to fatten them up.”

Although most native Milwaukeeans know of our city’s great reputation for Milwaukee-style pizza, only recently has this well-kept secret begun to get out.

“While Jennifer Rubell has cornered the high end of the food art market, the thousands of unsung folk artists stretching dough, ladling tomato sauce and tossing pies into their ovens have remained hidden away in the kitchen. That’s all bound to change when the world’s first pizza museum, Pizza Brain, opens this summer in Philadelphia, serving up not only the world’s largest collection of pizza memorabilia.”

“It isn’t often national restaurant chains get menu items from the kitchens of their franchisees, but Brian Edler’s idea was one Domino’s Pizza executives ate right up.”

“U.S. consumers are relaxing their purse strings and dining out more often, according to a new Packaged Facts report that projects restaurant sales to row 4.2% to $487 million in 2012, on the heels of 6.1% market growth in 2011.”

“Robert Miller is not bashful when it comes to the love of his life. “It’s a 1990 Chevy Camaro.”