Daily Archives: December 8, 2011

ChicagoTribune.com reports, “Domino’s Pizza Inc. processed a record 1.08 million online orders during the week after Thanksgiving, signalling customers’ growing use of online and mobile services. Domino’s launched online ordering nearly four years ago and it now makes up about 30 percent of total orders.”
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In a statement for the record for today’s Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing, “ICANN’s Expansion of Top-Level Domains,” the National Restaurant Association’s Scott DeFife, Executive Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs, registered restaurant industry opposition to the new Internet domain name plan and called on Congress and the U.S. Department of Commerce to reassess the program before its unveiling in January 2012:
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The Dayton Business Journal reports, “Pizza Hut Inc. Pizza Hut Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Pizza Hut buys back Ohio restaurantsPizza Hut buys back 46 of its Southwest Ohio restaurantsPizza Hut franchisee NPC serves 0M private offering Follow this company has acquired nearly 50 of its restaurants from a local franchisee.”
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NRN.com reports, “Online and mobile sales of pizza got a big boost after Thanksgiving as U.S. shoppers stayed planted in front of their computers on Cyber Monday, Nov. 28, to order food. Domino’s Pizza said Wednesday it processed more than one million U.S. orders in the week of Nov. 28 – Dec. 4, the pizza chain’s best week ever in domestic digital sales, the company said. ‘This was the first time in our history we surpassed one million digital orders in a single week,’ Patrick Doyle, Domino’s Pizza president and chief executive, said in a statement. ‘It was extraordinary — and clearly a sign of the times. Consumers are not only craving quality food, but they’re getting it via the convenience of ordering from their computers and other mobile devices.’”
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