8/28/2007 | It’s time to go online
Online ordering is affordable and effective for restaurants of all sizes
8/28/2007 | Ringing school bells, ringing cash registers
Pizza operators prepare for the return of the school year and the inevitable business boom.
7/13/2007 | Business Trends: Dairy prices pounding ice creamery profits
Dan Young didn’t want to raise prices this summer, but he had to if he wanted to stay in business.“When I saw where prices were going to be in middle part of season, I knew I had to or I wouldn’t be here,” said Young, owner of Young’s Jersey Dairy in
7/10/2007 | Business Trends: Soaring cheese prices could flirt with record territory
Soaring milk costs have cheese prices on a bull run, and that’s leading industry watchers to predict a possible return to record highs logged in 2004. When block prices hit $1.75 on May 23, it was a high-water mark last reached in January of 2005.
3/2/2007 | NAPICS: A feast for the senses
This year’s NAPCIS didn’t disappoint. Preliminary numbers show nearly 5,300 attendees walked among more than 400 booths. “It was absolutely extraordinary on Sunday,” said Ann Reichle, NAPICS chairwoman and co-owner of Angelina’s Pizza in Olmsted Falls, Ohio . “I just could not believe what I saw in the aisles.”
5/4/2007 | Business Trends: Graeter’s, Tony Boombozz Pizza pair up to deliver ice cream
Business Trends: Tony Boombozz Pizzeria in
2/27/2007 | Central Ohio Pizzerias Win National Competition
Ken Jarboe of Sparky’s Pizzeria, Urbana, Ohio, and John Gutekanst of Avalanche Pizza, Lancaster, Ohio, out baked 100 other contestants in the fourth annual North America Pizza Pizzazz Competition held February 25-26 at the North America Pizza & Ice Cream Show (NAPICS) in the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
08/16/2006 | Columbus, Ohio, is ice cream heaven
The only place in the United States I've managed to find tastes that accurate is, of course, that tropical paradise and ice cream capital of the world: Columbus, Ohio. This is home to the most unusual ice cream parlor I've ever visited in the U.S. In the quaint Grandview Heights neighborhood of Columbus sits Jeni's.
03/01/2006 | The 2006 Show Review
For the first time in a few years, favorable weather may have played a hand in drawing 4,500 attendees to the
02/09/2006 | Be a Part of History at NAPICS
Attending the North America Pizza & Ice Cream Show (NAPICS) this year just might be "your 15 minutes of fame." Well, maybe more like 15 seconds but you could find yourself in the middle of a major television documentary about how Americans like to eat.
01/31/2006 | Third Annual NAPICS Features Innovative Products, Seminars
NAPICS will feature exhibits and demonstrations of new products and equipment, seminars and workshops covering tried-and-true "how to" procedures and innovative methodologies and friendly competitions.
01/27/2006 | 2006 NAPICS Pizza Pizzazz to feature America's best pizza makers
What is on the line at this year's Pizza Pizzazz? A lot including a first prize, expenses-paid trip to the World Pizza Championships in Salsamaggiore, Italy, as well as a mega-dose of media and customer attention lavished on the winner's business.
01/12/2006 | NAPICS Pizza Operators Workshop is for novices and veterans
If you're looking to take your existing pizza business to the next level, or curious about how to get one started the 2006 Pizza Operators Workshop is for you.
09.20.2005 | Business Building at NAPICS
Fall 2005 issue of Pizzeria Operator Summary.
03.04.2005 | The 2005 Show Review
02.18.2005 | A pizza battle royale
Pizza makers from all around the U.S.—even Alaska—are coming to Columbus, Ohio, compete in the nation’s largest pizza contest, Pizza Pizzazz.
02.11.2005 | Enter now! NAPICS Pizza Pizzazz competition deadline draws near
02.02.2005 | Pizza Operator Workshop kicks off 2005 North America Pizza & Ice Cream Show
01.14.2005 | NAPICS Update: Eagle Boys Pizza founder to speak at NAPICS
12.10.2004 | NAPICS Pizza Pizzazz competitors vie for trip to Italy
As past Pizza Pizzazz winners say, their victories bought a tremendous amount of PR for
their businesses.
10.29.2004 | 2005 PREVIEW: Content is king at ’05 North America Pizza & Ice Cream Show
At February’s second coming of NAPICS, pizza operators will enjoy unrivaled business-building content and networking.
10.19.2004 | NAPICS set for Feb. 27-28 in Columbus, Ohio