In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering -- more than $1 billion to be exact
Thumping dance music, waiters darting from the kitchen with hot plates, children chasing balloons. "It's rocking," says 23-year-old software engineer Nishant Gupta, squirting ketchup onto his pizza before dipping it in a mound of mustard and taking a bite.
It's never easy replacing a company's founder, but that was exactly the task facing Nigel Travis in April 2005 when he became CEO of Papa John's, the nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain with over 3,000 restaurants. He took the reins from longtime chief exec John Schnatter, who started the company in 1984 out of a renovated broom closet in his father's tavern.
A 23-year-old leveraged-finance analyst, Excel spreadsheet in hand, is fighting to be heard over a raucous crowd. For three hours, 60 people have been bidding ferociously, occasionally peppering th...
John Schnatter sold his first pizza in 1984, out of a renovated broom closet in his father's tavern. By the time Papa John's debuted on the Fastest-Growing list a decade later, it was a $162-millio...
THOUGH IT'S THEIR FIRST CHANCE TO MAKE A good impression, for many companies package design has often been an afterthought. Designers were called in at the last minute, and cost was the deciding fa...
With conservative jurists John Roberts and Samuel Alito now seated, the Supreme Court is generating headlines and protests as it considers such divisive social issues as abortion rights and the dea...
In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering -- more than $1 billion to be exact
Thumping dance music, waiters darting from the kitchen with hot plates, children chasing balloons. "It's rocking," says 23-year-old software engineer Nishant Gupta, squirting ketchup onto his pizza before dipping it in a mound of mustard and taking a bite.
It's never easy replacing a company's founder, but that was exactly the task facing Nigel Travis in April 2005 when he became CEO of Papa John's, the nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain with over 3,000 restaurants. He took the reins from longtime chief exec John Schnatter, who started the company in 1984 out of a renovated broom closet in his father's tavern.
A 23-year-old leveraged-finance analyst, Excel spreadsheet in hand, is fighting to be heard over a raucous crowd. For three hours, 60 people have been bidding ferociously, occasionally peppering th...
John Schnatter sold his first pizza in 1984, out of a renovated broom closet in his father's tavern. By the time Papa John's debuted on the Fastest-Growing list a decade later, it was a $162-millio...
THOUGH IT'S THEIR FIRST CHANCE TO MAKE A good impression, for many companies package design has often been an afterthought. Designers were called in at the last minute, and cost was the deciding fa...
With conservative jurists John Roberts and Samuel Alito now seated, the Supreme Court is generating headlines and protests as it considers such divisive social issues as abortion rights and the dea...
[HIT] You're absolutely, positively willing to pony up. Rising fuel costs have kept airline profits grounded. So how has FedEx--which runs the largest cargo jet fleet in the world, as well as 700,0...
It's just after midnight on the French Riviera, and while the rich and famous sip champagne in Cannes at the annual film festival, something unsightly and orange cruises into the harbor and plops d...
Domino's, watch out. Scott Matthew, founder of Super Fast Pizza of Fond du Lac, Wis., has crushed his industry's first law--that a pie has to be cooked, then delivered--by turning two Chrysler Spri...
A meat and cheese pizza, like the ones developed by the two teams in Thursday's episode of the Donald Trump reality show "The Apprentice," went on sale Friday at Domino's Pizza stores nationwide.
While the low-carb and anti-obesity campaigns have slammed food companies from Sara Lee to Kraft, Domino's Pizza hasn't just promised results; it has delivered. Since going public last July, the 44...
The low-carb products are selling like crazy," says Ali Shabbir, owner of a General Nutrition Centers health food store in Manhattan. "And new ones are coming out every day." He's not kidding. Acco...
Tom Monaghan sums up his life as a "great Horatio Alger story," and he's not being boastful. Monaghan's father died on Christmas Eve when he was 4. His mother, not up to single parenthood, sent him...
Here are some of your better dining choices in the town of Keyser, W. Va.: A Chinese take-out. A Subway in a gas station. A Domino's, also in a gas station. An Italian restaurant in a converted Mis...
As a new generation of hands-free phones, wireless modems, palmtops, dashboard GPS maps with voice-activated displays, and OnStar-type services transforms the automobile from its traditional role a...
Deep within Pizza Hut's sepia-tinted, mirrored Dallas headquarters, food scientists in white lab coats rip open boxes of ingredients. One man picks through hundreds of seemingly identical mushroom ...
I live in a quaint but inconvenient Manhattan neighborhood, where amenities like good takeout food are surprisingly hard to come by. Now, thanks to the Internet, countless stores around New York pr...
The moment you arrive at a Leading Concepts Boot Camp, you know you're screwed. You know it when the only sign of civilization you see at the campsite you will call home for the next four days is a...
When Domino's Pizza first went international in the mid-1980s, it took a disastrous one-pie-fits-all approach. For instance, Germans, who like small, individual pizzas, got served large pies. This ...
A (saucy) MONEY poll on the enjoyment of employment Okay. By now you know what the best jobs in America are and how to get one. But, hey, how do you really feel about the nine-to-five grind? Do you...
MONEY NEVER goes out of style, but spending it sometimes does. As we downshift from the extravagant 1980s to the penurious 1990s, many of the 233 wealthy individuals and families on Fortune's sixth...
JEFFREY CLEMENTS, 45, stopped wearing tailored suits and starched white shirts to work last January and switched to blue sweat pants, T-shirts, and sneakers. It's a good thing. Clements used to be ...
Recession or recovery, boom or bust, the one thing constant about the American economy is that it's constantly changing. Yet despite economic upheaval -- and in many cases, because of it -- now cou...
PATRICIA A. ZLOTIN, 44 MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO. Five years ago Zlotin helped launch this Boston mutual fund company in the business of managing government securities. Today she runs fiv...
Domino's CEO Thomas Monaghan once wanted to be a priest. His career as a seminarian ended after a pillow fight and other minor transgressions, however, and he went on to found his pizza chain, whic...
TUNA AND SWEET CORN on pizza? ''Yuk,'' you think? If so, think again: The fish-and-farm combo is the best-selling pie at Domino's 58 pizza restaurants in Japan, ahead of pepperoni, onion and cheese...
Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, 52, doesn't live on bread and sauce alone. The chairman and CEO of the $2.3-billion-a-year pie purveyor is giving up his additional title of president so that h...
CUSTOMERS ARE FIRST, employees second, shareholders third, and the community fourth.'' That's the credo at H.B. Fuller, the century-old adhesives maker in St. Paul. More and more smart managers kno...
If you intend to build a cantilevered 30-story building to house your pizza company's operations, you'd better expect people to call it the Leaning Tower of Pizza. Especially if the structure tilts...
When the high-finned '50s Cadillac convertibles started spinning on the auction turntable in Las Vegas this spring, Robie Wayne's head spun too. Wayne, 40, a Cadillac aficionado from Minneapolis, h...
Hold the shredder. That pile of old annual reports gathering dust may be more valuable than you think. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City believes annual reports have artistic ...
Some big players in the fast-food industry are on starvation rations. Wendy's International and Pillsbury's Burger King, both facing slumping per-store sales and falling profits, have been switchin...
ALAN ''ACE'' GREENBERG, 59, chief executive of investment firm Bear Stearns, which coughed up $169,000, the largest single contribution, for New York Governor Mario Cuomo's reelection campaign: ''W...
PIZZA is America's favorite home-delivered fare, and the battle among purveyors is as hot as the pies they promise. Domino's, a Michigan-based franchiser, is the delivery champion, sending $1.1 bil...
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