By Rick Hynum When you’re cast in the “villain” role on a reality TV dating show, haters, as they say, gonna hate. But riled-up romance fans are the least of Peter Izzo’s problems. The co-owner of Peter’s Pizzeria, with two locations in South Florida, and cast member of ABC’s Bachelor … More
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Pizza Power Report 2022: Get Ready for the Robots
By Rick Hynum As we reflect on the past year in the pizza industry, the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” comes to mind. For the record, there’s no evidence that the expression originated in China, but, wherever it came from, it packs a punch. For pizza … More
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The 2021 Pizza Power Report: How Pizzeria Operators Can Thrive in the Coming Year
By Rick Hynum Looking back on 2020, it’s hard to tally up everything that went wrong. The pandemic cast a gloomy shadow over the nation, while civic unrest heated up and spilled into city streets. Wildfires raged across the western United States. Beloved heroes, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herman Cain … More
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PMQ Survey: 90 Percent of Pizza Restaurants Still Open Thanks to Delivery and Carryout
PMQ Pizza Magazine would like to thank all 490 pizza operators, suppliers and distributors who participated in our recent PMQ readers survey that measured the pizza industry’s COVID-19 disposition. Of those 490 respondents, 97% were pizzeria operators, 81% were independent operators, 11.4% were franchises and 4.5% work in chain management. … More
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Pizza Power Report 2020: Taking Advantage of Digital Disruption
“Digital disruption” has become something of a buzz phrase in the pizza business in recent years, but that term only tells part of the story of an industry that’s evolving at a dizzying pace. We’ve written at length about the online ordering revolution in past Pizza Power Reports—you know the … More
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The 2019 Pizza Power Report: A State-of-the-Industry Analysis
When compiling this year’s Pizza Power Report, three themes kept appearing again and again: quality ingredients, technology and the youth culture. Consumers are increasingly insisting on the freshest, healthiest ingredients, a trend driven largely by younger segments of consumers, who also demand the highest technology available to … More
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The 2018 Pizza Power Report: A State-of-the-Industry Analysis
This year’s Pizza Power Report practically wrote itself. As we combed through the numbers and reviewed the year’s leading and trailing trends, the same buzzwords and brands kept appearing. It became crystal clear that pizza consumers want their pizza the way they want it and as fast as they can … More
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Pizza Power 2017 – A State of the Industry Report
Pizza makes everything better, but the world’s greatest food had to work overtime in 2016, which will long be remembered as the year we’d rather forget. Atrocities, natural disasters, the Syrian refugee crisis and the nastiest presidential election in recent memory left us all crying out for comfort—and pizza, … More
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The 2016 Pizza Power Report: A state-of-the-industry analysis
Pizza is like sex, the old joke goes: When it’s good, it’s great, but when it’s bad, it’s still pretty darn good. Then there are those free thinkers who, all joking aside, say pizza is better than sex. In a 2015 survey by gluten-free crust purveyor Smart Flour Foods … More
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The 2015 Pizza Power Report
Hamburgers may still be America’s No. 1 restaurant food, but make no mistake: Pizza is a whole lot cooler. When pop superstar Katy Perry got hungry in the middle of a concert in Kansas City, Missouri, this summer, she didn’t dial up the local Wendy’s. She ordered a pepperoni … More
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The 2014 Pizza Power Report
There’s an invasion under way in the pizza industry. Everyone from baristas to burger chefs, it seems, wants a slice of the action. The founders of Wetzel’s Pretzels, for example, put their own twist on pizza last year with Blaze Pizza (blazepizza.com), while Chili’s Grill & Bar rolled out a … More