Col’Cacchio in Cape Town, South Africa, is the first chain in the country to roll out pizza infused with the cannabidiol (CBD oil) in 37 restaurants. “We love to stay ahead of the curve and are extremely proud to be the first restaurant in SA to launch a cannabis pizza … More
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New Zealand Pizzeria Angers Customers with Surprise ‘Fake Meat’
New Zealand pizzeria chain, Hell Pizza, earned its fame with creative, often cutting-edge marketing. This week is no exception. On June 21, Hell Pizza launched “Burger Pizza,” topped with “medium-rare burger patty” along with smoked cheddar, honey mustard, red onion and gherkins. After selling to 3,000 customers in the past … More
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Oldest Family-Owned Pizzeria Featured on Thrillist for Its Mustard Pizza
Papa’s Tomato Pies, the oldest family-owned-and-operated pizzeria, will be featured on an episode of Thrillist’s Really Dough on July 8. Really Dough is a web series where show hosts pizza legend Mark Iacono and tour guide Scott Weiner search for unusual pizzas to argue whether those nontraditional pies are in … More
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Caputo Cup Winner to Open Second Pizzeria, Start a School of Pizza
All his life, one mission has driven William Lawrence-Grant of That’s A Some Pizza in Bainbridge Island, Washington: make the world happier and healthier through pizza. “Pizza used to be defined by cheap ingredients and, often, still is; there are certainly a lot of places you can get fast-food pizza,” … More
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Baskin-Robbins Creates Ice-Cream Pizza Inspired by “Stranger Things”
Stranger Things 3 is premiering on July 4, and fans everywhere might be debating what snack(s) to gorge on while binging the show. Baskin-Robbins teamed up with Netflix to bring the summer of 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana to ice cream lovers everywhere. And pizza fans won’t be left out … More
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USA Today Readers Choose UNO as the Best Chicago-Style Pizza
USA Today readers have spoken and have resoundingly chosen UNO Pizzeria & Grill, the inventor of deep dish pizza, as the best Chicago-style pizza throughout the state of Illinois. Founded in Chicago in 1943, Pizzeria Uno is the birthplace of the UNO Deep Dish Pizza and, along with Pizzeria Due, topped … More
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Patriotic Pizzeria Makes Guinness-Record Flag out of Pizza
A pizzeria in Westfield, New Jersey has tackled the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest flag-shaped pizza this past Saturday. The aptly-named Outta Hand Pizza created a Sicilian pizza measuring nine feet by four feet in the shape of the U.S. Star and Bars to kick off city’s … More
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Seagull Steals Pizza, Ends Up Stealing the Show at Wrigley Field
New York City may have the infamous “Pizza Rat,” but last Friday at the Mets v. Cubs game, Chicago revealed its own famous pizza thief: a seagull. In the fourth inning with Mets in the lead, the seagull suddenly appeared on Wrigley Field scarfing down a half-eaten slice of pizza. … More
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Ellis Island Exhibit Traces History of Pizza through Immigration
The National Park Service and Evelyn Hill Inc., the food service concessionaire at the Statue of Liberty since 1931 and Ellis Island since 2009, cooked up a way to celebrate pizza. The organizations invited five purveyors of one of America’s favorite foods to share their crusty craftsmanship and their founder’s … More
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Pay Using Facial Recognition in China
Are you tired of reaching all the way into your pocket to pay? Well now you can pay with the twinkle of your eye. Customers dining at KFC’s healthy spinoff KPRO in mainland China no longer need to whip out their wallet. Just order at the touch screen, look into … More
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French Robotics Company Receives $10M Investment for Fully-Automated Restaurant
A pizza robot company, PAZZI, recently received €10 million ($12,760,000 USD) in anticipation of opening a fully-automated pilot restaurant with pizza robots. The investment is from Singaporean fund Qualgro along with French fund Eutopia and investors Partech and Daphni. “The autonomous restaurant concept offered by PAZZI is meeting a growing … More
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MIT Teaches AI to Configure Recipes from Pictures of Pizza
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an AI network that reverse-engineers pizza by deconstructing a scanned picture of the pie to its basic ingredients. The scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computer Research Institute (QCRI) created a neural network which … More