Domino’s Pizza and Ford have paired up in a pilot project that will look at how humans interact with driverless food-delivery cars. Ann Arbor is home to thousands of students, an age group not likely to view this new technology with suspicion. But it could…
Project Pie, the pizza outlet that lets customers devise their own toppings, has closed all but one of its stores in the Philippines. After “four years of pizza awesomeness”, the US-based pizza chain has announced on social media it will be “graduating” its…
A fresh concept has been introduced by Pizza Hut Philippines with its new 175-seater flagship store in SM Mall of Asia in Manila. As well as offering more space for fast casual dining, the upgrade introduces an open kitchen plus decor with a rustic flavour.…
Fast food retailer, Domino’s Pizza, has missed full-year profit expectations due to weak sales in Japan and France. The pizza giant, however, posted a lift in full year net profit by 24.8 per cent to $102.9 million, helped by double-digit sales growth in…
Retail Food Group owned Pizza Capers, has today announced it’s entering the Indian market via a master franchise license in favour of local firm Krsna Foods (India) Pvt Limited. RFG chief executive – international, Mike Gilbert, said the grant of master…
Philippine pizza-parlor chain Shakey’s Pizza Asia Ventures (SPAVI) is expanding its overseas footprint with a move into the United Arab Emirates next year. Through subsidiary Shakey’s Pizza Regional Foods, SPAVI has signed an area development agreement with…
Part of the huge shadow Ant Financial casts is its appetite for global investment, but at the same time it’s making moves that are kicking off major changes to how payments are handled in its local market in China. While the world waits to see how the…
The operator of Pizza Hut, QSR Brands (M) Holdings Bhd, plans to upgrade its 221 dine-in restaurants over the next two years, as part of its re-branding activity in conjunction with Pizza Hut’s 35th anniversary. QSR Brands chief executive officer Merrill…
Pankaj Batra, chief marketing officer at Pizza Hut Asia Pacific, has taken on a new role as chief brand officer at Pizza Hut, Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META). This was confirmed by him to Marketing. According to his LinkedIn, he will be responsible for…
Domino’s Pizza, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, is celebrating the grand opening of its 14,000th store in in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, outside of the nation’s capital of Kuala Lumpur. “It was just eight months ago that we cut the ribbon on our…
With over 70 restaurants in the city, half of Pizza Hut’s business in Hong Kong is dine-in. This gives the diner a great incentive, but at the same time, huge pressure to improve its customer experience. In 2014, Pizza Hut started its mobile marketing…
Pizza, a polar bear notorious in China as being the “world’s saddest”, has been removed from his cramped enclosure and placed in an animal reserve after months of controversy that have highlighted the sorry state of Chinese shopping malls. Pizza’s plight was…
A joint investigation by Tempo, a weekly news magazine, and BBC Indonesia has reportedly revealed the use of expired ingredients by fast food chain Pizza Hut, its delivery arm Pizza Hut Delivery (PHD), and Japanese franchise Marugame Udon. The investigation,…
If your Pizza Hut clerk seems like a robot, you may have stumbled into Singapore and a near future in retail commerce. Before the end of this year, credit card giant MasterCard will deploy an actual robot in one lucky Pizza Hut location in Singapore that will…
Customised pizza has arrived in Japan, thanks to American chain 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria. Its first outlet for the nation is at the south exit of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station in the new Newomanbuilding complex, which features fashion boutiques and fancy…
Pizza Hut Hong Kong has is implementing a super retail network solution from Hutchison Global Communications to connect more than 100 outlets to the company’s data centers. Pizza Hut says the solution – a next generation metro Ethernet data capability…