Monthly Archives: October 2011

NRN.com reports, “Pizza delivery chains are gearing up for one of their biggest nights of the year on Monday with Halloween-theme discounts aimed at stealing marketshare.”
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DNAinfo.com reports, “Ask devotees of the original Ray’s Pizza what makes a perfect slice, and you’ll get any number of answers: just enough oil; a ridge of oven-fresh dough; or a rich, creamy layer of cheese. The city may be full of imitators, they say, but there’s nothing like the original. ‘You come down here and it’s hot out of the oven, and the cheese is really creamy,’ said Randy Warshaw, 27, who lives on the Lower East Side. ‘The other chains are exactly that—chains.’”
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Time.com reports, “Competition can be piping hot, especially in the cutthroat world of pizza chains.”
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SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza, James Beard Award-winning Chef Michael Smith, and Cellar Rat Wine Merchants are joining forces to benefit Harvesters: the Community Food Network. On four Tuesdays in November, the collaboration of friends will present “Tour d’ Italia” pizza and wine flight dinners. Each week will feature four wines from a different Italian wine region along with a specially created four-course meal.
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Buoyed by stronger same-store sales and customer traffic levels, the National Restaurant Association’s (www.restaurant.org) Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) topped the 100 mark in September for the first time in three months.
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