“A Long Island pizzeria employee was caught on camera unleashing his inner Andrea Bocelli, and the video is making waves across the Internet,” reports LongIslandPress.com.

“The people who own Joe’s Pizza on Union Ave. in Holbrook are big New York Giants fans so they decided to honor Big Blue with a blue pizza and blue garlic nuts,” reports MyFoxNY.com.

Today on This Week in Pizza, Papa John’s takes a big gamble on Super Bowl Sunday, an Illinois pizzeria receives a $25,000 small business grant and a fast-casual chain adopts new ordering technology.

“Every Sept. 11, Big Bill’s New York Pizza in Centennial hosts Day of Giving to benefit the JoAnn B. Ficke Cancer Foundation,” reports DenverPost.com.

“Several people had to be turned away at the door Tuesday night during a “theater café” fundraiser for the Novato Theater staged at Ghiringhelli Pizzeria, so more cozy get-togethers are being planned,” reports Novato.Patch.com.

JSOnline.com reports, “Joe Bartolotta runs what is arguably Milwaukee’s most prominent restaurant group.”

NYTimes.com reports, “You see them all across the country, in shopping malls and street corners, suburban towns and city centers: zombie restaurants.”

AJC.com reports, “A bartender has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit claiming he lost his job after his employer implemented a ‘hot chick’ strategy to bring in customers.”

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.

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.)”

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.”

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.

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.

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.'”

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.”

ColoradoIndependent.com reports, “Marijuana articles giving you the munchies? Now you can turn the need to feed into a donation to fight against the war on drugs. Denver’s Sexy Pizza is donating a portion of its sales to LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), a group of police officers, judges and others in law enforcement who think the war on drugs is counterproductive. Sexy Pizza, 1018 E. 11th Ave., has created the ‘LEAP Pizza,’ a Hawaiian-style pie with Canadian bacon, pineapple and mozzarella cheese, to benefit the organization. ‘Sexy Pizza is a proud supporter of marijuana law reform on every level, so to be able to offer this perpetual gift to the activists in law enforcement is truly an honor,’ said Kayvan S.T. Khalatbari, owner of Sexy Pizza and a longtime supporter of marijuana reform efforts.”

NYTimes.com reports, “First there was pepper spray. Then came the batons. But on Thursday night, bad relations between the police and protesters entered a new dimension. While arrested demonstrators sat in their cells at a Lower East side station house, the police, protesters say, stole their pizza and drank all their soda pop.”