Daily Archives: November 16, 2011

Last October, a completely different pizza restaurant opened its doors for the first time. Today, Top That! Pizza announced the October 17th Grand Opening of its first franchise unit. Four more units are under construction and dozens more in the pipeline.
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World Famous Pizza Company Ltd. (the “Company” or “World Famous”) announces that, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals, the Company has entered into a letter of intent dated as of November 7, 2011 (the “LOI”) with Figaro’s Italian Pizza, Inc. of Salem, Oregon (“Figaro’s”) to sell certain business assets of the Company’s Nick-N-Willy’s Pizza® franchise, which is owned by the Company’s Colorado subsidiary, Nick-N-Willy’s Franchise Company, LLC.
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The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) announced the call for entries for the 16th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webbys celebrates the year’s best websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile and apps. The final deadline for entry submissions is December 16, 2011.
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NRN.com reports, “Restaurants are offering pork more frequently on their menus, new research from Technomic finds.”
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EdWeek.org reports, “Pizza would be considered a vegetable on school lunch trays under new changes to school meals proposed by Congress late yesterday. And lawmakers who wanted no limits on how many starchy vegetables students are served also got their wish.”
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Medill.Northwestern.edu reports, “Nearly 60 new Pizza Hut jobs are being created and 250 maintained in the Chicago area after local JGJ Management Co., in conjunction with Fifth Third Bank, purchased nine restaurants from Pizza Hut Inc.”
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GQ reports, “In mid-October, well before the allegations (of sexual harrassment) started to break, GQ sent correspondent Chris Heath, senior editor Devin Gordon, and food critic Alan Richman to Seventh Hill in Washington, D.C., the best pizza joint in town, to have a Sunday-afternoon pizza party with the GOP’s surprise front-runner. Within minutes of sitting down, we discovered one reason why Cain has done so well despite crossing so many lines: No matter what blunder or offense pops out of his mouth (and plenty do), it’s awfully hard not to like him.”
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