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Fun Friday: Easter candies ranked, Swedish candy on TikTok, top 5 pizza trends of 2024

Sesame seed crust, ribbon pepperoni, and more are trending on pizza this year.

March 22, 2024

This week's Fun Friday includes the best and worst Easter candy, PopCorners new speakeasy-themed commercial with actor Don Cheadle, and more.

Snack and bakery companies experiment with frozen pizza and appetizer variety

Consumers head to the frozen aisle for mainstays like pizza and heat-and-eat snacks and appetizers.

Liz Parker Kuhn

April 21, 2021

In some areas, it wasn't uncommon to walk into the local grocery store during the COVID-19 pandemic and see the shelves wiped out of frozen pizza. Consumers want quick and easy meals that also function as comfort food, and the same goes for easy-to-prepare frozen snacks like pizza rolls and pizza bagels, as well as ethnic appetizers like egg rolls.

BoldData: growth of pizza restaurants comes to abrupt halt

BoldData crunches the numbers, for National Pizza Week

January 7, 2021

Next week is National Pizza Week: an entire week in honor of one of America’s all-time favorite foods. Time to crunch the numbers!

Wisconsin Cheese virtual event: editors discover new flavor dimensions in pizza

Liz Parker Kuhn

December 10, 2020

On Thursday, December 3rd, Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery attended a virtual "wine and cheese" night hosted by Wisconsin Cheese.

Plant-Based Pepperoni Pizza Papa Murphy's Hormel Happy Little Plants

Hormel partners with Papa Murphy's Take-and-Bake Pizza for plant-based pepperoni pies

September 23, 2020

Hormel Foods, the makers of Hormel Pepperoni, America's No. 1 selling pepperoni brand* and the maker of the Happy Little Plants products, are introducing new Happy Little Plants pepperoni-style topping at select Papa Murphy's locations across the country.

R&D inspirations for next-generation pizzas

Healthy and flavorful crusts can provide a differentiating factor and align with prevailing trends

Melissa Kvidahl Reilly

February 12, 2020

According to Technomic's 2018 Pizza Consumer Trend Report, 83 percent of U.S. consumers eat pizza at least once per month, with 43 percent opting for pizza every week.

Regional power: Eating Detroit Style pizza in Chicago

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

September 17, 2018

Earlier this year, I started to notice Outsiders Pizza Co. products hitting the frozen food case at my local Chicago-area grocery stores. Intrigue arose as I noticed "Detroit Style" emblazoned across the pizza's packaging.

State of the Industry 2017: Pizza producers continue to innovate

Consumers seek new ingredients, including some better-for-you options, as retail and foodservice influence one another.

Ed Finkel

June 14, 2017

While select brands showed stronger-than-average performances over the past year, the overall frozen pizza category—including frozen pizzas and frozen pizza crusts/dough—has leveled off in sales.

Foodservice pizza trends roundtable

November 28, 2016

When it comes to pizza, crust is king. According to Technomic, Chicago, the most-popular crusts at limited-service restaurants (LSRs) are thin and crispy.