Pizza Franchise Wins Award

5th fastest growing pizza franchiseFrom Reuters: Straw Hat Restaurants garnered PMQ`s 2009 Pizza Industry Enterprise (PIE) Award over the other finalists including Little Caesars.

"The combination of this leading pizza franchise's sales and unit growth-including growing beyond its own goals-teamed with its ability to stay on top of trends affecting
today`s consumer, put the company out ahead of the pack," says Liz Barrett, Editor-in Chief for PMQ`s Pizza Magazine, the #1 publication in the pizza
industry.

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Prospect of an Affordable Franchise for Minorities, Veterans and Women

From Nation's Restaurant News: Amid the deepest economic slowdown since the Great Depression, restaurant franchisors are enhancing or developing programs to broaden their franchisee bases as a means to grow business.

Franchisors as diverse as KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino’s Pizza and Little Caesar's Pizza all aim programs at minorities, women and veterans. Domino’s, for example, offers veterans a $20,000 discount off the franchise fee.

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Pizza Franchise Goes To New York

January 1, 2009 saw Pizza franchise Figaro's launching its newest menu offering: New York Style Pizza.

Ever had a slice of authentic New York pizza? A slice that’s so big that you have to fold it in half to contain its delicious contents?

According to Dave Schy, a renowned chef and Figaro’s director of new concepts and product development, company officials spent nearly a year trying to create the pizza they had in mind but feel their final product is a true homage to the New York-style pizza loved by people the world over.

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Domino's Chair Says Pizza Franchise Will Survive

From MLive.com (Michigan): David Brandon has to figure out how to convince people to buy pizza during what he expects to be "perhaps the deepest, darkest recession of most of our lifetimes."

But the Domino's Pizza chairman and chief executive, speaking in a phone interview from his desk in Ann Arbor Township, said his $1.44 billion company would survive this economic crisis. In fact, Brandon says Domino's could survive for years in an economy like this.

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Workers Open Franchises With Buyouts

From The Detroit News: In the dozen years Mark Bergman worked for Ford Motor Co.'s sales and marketing department, he dreamt of pizza.

Finally, inspired by a television commercial calling for Little Caesars franchisees, he accepted a buyout package from Ford in February 2007 and put the money toward his dream.

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