Pizza

Pepperoni crowned Brits' fav topping for National Pizza Day

09-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Take your pizza offering to new heights with meat toppings as pepperoni, donner pizza and meat feast all score a place in Brits’ top five types of pizza.

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How can I become a pizza delivery pro?

01-Oct-2020 By Arla Pro

With the UK's pizza delivery market in growth, never has it been a better time to try and grab a slice of the action. In these three videos Arla Pro discusses everything you need to know, from equipment and packaging to choosing the right cheese...

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How to run a profitable pizza delivery offering

23-Sep-2020 By Arla Pro

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous problems to restaurateurs, either with the enforced lockdown of the summer or the continuing issues around customer distancing and a drop in covers, but many restaurants have tackled the issue head on and...

Three Joes snaps up 14-site Stable from Fuller’s

08-Jun-2020 By Stuart Stone

Sourdough pizza and craft beer restaurant operator, Three Joes, has acquired Fuller’s 14-site strong pizza chain, The Stable, for an undisclosed sum.

£350k refurbishment for Star Pubs & Bar site

09-Oct-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Work has started this week on a £350,000 refurbishment to a Star Pubs & Bars site in Chelmsford, Essex.

Award winners unveil £25k revamped garden

26-May-2017 By Michelle Perrett

Ashley and Kelly McCarthy are former BII Licensees of the Year. Their pub Ye Old Sun Inn in Colton, North Yorkshire, is a roaring success and known for its quality food and drink offer.

Barrel & Stone pub pizza brand poised for massive expansion

21-Feb-2017 By Daniel Woolfson

Barrel & Stone, the pub pizza format, plans to grow its portfolio of partners within the pub trade to 400 in the next three years.

PMA500 Soho: study tours revealed

19-May-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Soho has long been known as the beating heart of London's eating and drinking out scene. Delegates at the next PMA500 event will visit some of the area's most innovative and well-known venues, including Cahoots and Alan Yau's Duck and Rice,...

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Sponsored - How pizza can boost your pub’s food sales

15-Feb-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Pizzas are an easy-to-make and great-tasting option for your menu, and you can capitalise on the recent boom for the Italian food. Nicholas Robinson reports

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Stick it up your Betamax: how one pub brought back VHS and another made a killing from pizza

12-Jun-2015 By PubFood

Money making ideas for your pub or bar.

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Business boosters: selfie sofa and invent a pizza contest

29-May-2015 By PubFood

Money making ideas for your pub or bar

Operator news

M&B launches Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery

21-Apr-2015 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is to launch a new concept this week which will be a combined and evolved version of its Crown Carveries and Sizzling Pub formats called Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery, M&C Report has learnt.

My Pub

My Pub - The Ring O' Bells

27-Jun-2014 By Alison Baker

From a picnic lawn to farmers’ markets, Trust Inns lessee Ian Wade tells Alison Baker how he has transformed his Cheshire pub, the Ring O’ Bells in Christleton, into a family-friendly haven

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Seven ways to boost pizza sales at your pub

14-Mar-2014 By Sheila McWattie

Sheila McWattie looks at seven ways to get popular pizza onto pub menus.

No Saints’ losses widen

26-Oct-2012 By M&C Report

No Saints, the bar and restaurant group run by ex-Luminar chief executive Stephen Thomas, reported a pre-tax loss of £2.2m in the year to 2 October 2011.

No Saints reveals plans to launch 15 sites

10-Oct-2011

No Saints, the bar and restaurant group run by former Luminar chief executive Stephen Thomas, revealed plans to open at least 15 sites.

No Saints seeks £2.1m for growth

14-Jun-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

No Saints, the leisure group run by ex-Luminar boss Stephen Thomas, has launched a new round of fundraising for a further £2.1m towards its...

Ex-Luminar boss plans to bring back pizza concept

22-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report

Steve Thomas, the founder of nightclub group Luminar, is to enter the restaurant sector, resurrecting the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory brand in the UK,...

The pull of the Bulls Head

21-Jul-2010 By Sonya Hook

Licensee Richard Pope tells Sonya Hook about the work he and his wife, Loren, put in before being crowned 2010 BII Licensees of the Year.

Caldesis host pizza-making lessons

07-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit

Italian food lovers can learn how to make an authentic pizza, taught by celebrity TV duo Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi. The pair has teamed up with...

Christmas proves profitable for leading pub operators

18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ

The UK's leading pub operators had a bumper Christmas, according to the latest survey tracking the fortunes of the licensed sector. According to the...

Business boosters

17-Jul-2008

Ideas for driving food sales at your pub Takeaway pizzas Where: Puesdown Inn, Compton Abdale, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire...

All fired up

01-May-2008

A wood-burning oven can help your pub offer a point of difference. Catherine Quinn looks at how licensees can make the most of a red-hot asset The...

Snacks focus: Want a flake in that?

27-Mar-2008

Typical. You wait ages for a hand-held, cone-shaped, pizza-style snack, and then two come along at once.The next - although undoubtedly not the last...

Med time

01-Sep-2007

Bar snacks and the increasing trend for grazing food is where Mediterranean food can come into its own. PubChef reports The trend for sharing food...

Pick of the pizzas

18-Apr-2007

"Would you like to come and eat pizzas in a Que Pasa and tell us what you think?" was essentially the invitation that arrived in my inbox. It was...

New dishes coming on to the market

07-Sep-2006

Jumbo treat Atlantic Foods has launched its new Jumbo Chicken Skewers to extend the Harvest Range of frozen, value-added chicken products. Atlantic...

Snacks Focus: Grab a pizza the action

01-Sep-2006

Whatsamatta you? Pizzas are a quick and relatively simple way for pubs to offer a snack menu outside normal kitchen hours. Ideal as a sharing dish,...

Mediterranean. Suppliers give pubs a taste of the Med

01-Nov-2005

Mediterranean products for pubs

A taste for island life

26-May-2005

Two former "Castaways" are fast earning a reputation for food at the Taversoe Hotel on the Orkney island of Rousay. Alice Whitehead reports It was...

Stateside Inspiration - Lisa Chafel looks at new food ideas from New York

01-Mar-2005 By Lisa Chafel

Food review of New York

Food File - New products

01-Mar-2004

Brakes has added three new luxury flavours to its La Cremeria range of premium dairy ice creams. The new Belgian Dark Chocolate & Orange and...

***Win a trip to Italy!***

30-May-2003

Knorr is so confident about its new Collezione Italiana wood fired pizzas, that it is giving publicans the chance to travel to Italy, where they will...