Pizza Express

Azzurri, The Ivy, Stonegate, Pizza Express, Rosa’s Thai, and Pizza Pilgrims to speak at next month's Hostech

11-Jan-2024 By Restaurant

Companies including Azzurri Group, Stonegate Group, The Ivy Collection, Pizza Express, Caravan, Rosa’s Thai, Gail’s, and Pizza Pilgrims will speak at next month’s hospitality technology conference Hostech.

PizzaExpress joins Just Eat for Business

17-Nov-2023 By Restaurant

PizzaExpress has become the latest restaurant brand to join the Just Eat for Business platform.

PizzaExpress announces new delivery platform

04-Jul-2023 By Restaurant

PizzaExpress is launching its own delivery platform in partnership with Uber Eats.

PizzaExpress cuts hours for waiting staff in job role shakeup

18-May-2023 By Restaurant

PizzaExpress is to slash hours for hundreds of its waiting staff and hand their duties over to restaurant managers, in a move that has been met with resistance from employees.

PizzaExpress managing director Zoe Bowley to leave the group after 12 years

05-Jan-2023 By Finn Scott-Delaney

PizzaExpress managing director Zoe Bowley is to step down after 12 years with the casual dining chain.

PizzaExpress: 'Delivery has helped combat World Cup challenges'

09-Dec-2022 By Stefan Chomka

Having a delivery offer has saved PizzaExpress from a significant drop in trade caused by the timing of England’s World Cup games, according to the restaurant group’s managing director.

Omnichannel Foodservice Conference to be held in December

08-Nov-2022 By Restaurant

The inaugural Omnichannel Foodservice Conference will now take place at the Pullman London St Pancras on 7 December, following planned disruption from rail strikes.

Friday Five: the week's top news

25-Feb-2022 By Joe Lutrario

This week's most read news stories include a debut solo restaurant for ex-Pétrus head chef Larry Jayasekara, Tinie Tempah's fried chicken play and a new look and feel for PizzaExpress.

The Lowdown: PizzaExpress wraps

24-Feb-2022 By Joe Lutrario

The venerable casual dining brand is hoping to pull in younger diners and office workers with a new range of pizza wraps.

Pizza Express to reopen 150 more restaurants in the next fortnight

23-Jul-2020 By Restaurant

Pizza Express says it will reopen more than 150 of its restaurants across the UK by early August.

Pizza Express and Azzurri expected to announce restaurant closures

17-Jul-2020 By Restaurant

Italian causal dining chains Pizza Express and Azzurri are expected to announce restaurant closures and financial restructures as the fallout from the Coronavirus pandemic continues.

PizzaExpress owner injects £80m to pay down debts

06-Nov-2019 By James McAllister

PizzaExpress’ Chinese owner Hony Capital is reportedly going to inject £80m of cash into the business in order to help prop up its balance sheet.

The Lowdown: PizzaExpress

10-Oct-2019 By James McAllister

Speculation has been growing around the future of PizzaExpress following recent reports that it is preparing for debt talks with creditors.

Latest opening: Za

06-Mar-2019 By Joe Lutrario

PizzaExpress is out for a slice of the grab-and-go sector with the first major shake-up of its formula in decades.

PizzaExpress to enter food to go sector

17-Jan-2019 By James Wallin

PizzaExpress is to launch spin-off brand, ZA, next month with an all-dining offer centred around pizza slices, BigHospitality's sister website MCA has learnt.

Friday Five: the week's top news

07-Dec-2018 By Stefan Chomka

We round-up some of the top hospitality stories you might have missed this week.

PizzaExpress founder dies, aged 89

06-Dec-2018 By Joe Lutrario

Peter Boizot, the founder of the PizzaExpress restaurant chain, has died aged 89.

PizzaExpress becomes Deliveroo's largest restaurant partner

31-May-2016 By Sophie Witts

Deliveroo has signed a deal to offer home delivery of PizzaExpress dishes across the UK.

Restaurant trends to watch in 2016

05-Jan-2016 By Sophie Witts

A boom in tech-driven delivery, rising staff wages and changes to tipping laws: BigHospitality predicts what's on the menu for the restaurant industry in 2016.

Restaurant groups criticised for taking a slice of staff tips

10-Aug-2015 By Sophie Witts

Restaurant groups including Pizza Express and the Casual Dining Group (CDG) are facing criticism for deducting a percentage of staff tips paid on credit card.

Pizza Express to recruit 2,500 people and boost apprenticeship scheme

31-Mar-2015 By Emma Eversham

Pizza Express has announced plans to recruit 2,500 staff over the next five years and expand its apprenticeship scheme to ensure there is at least one apprentice in each of its restaurants. 

Talkin' 'bout Y generation: study reveals eating out habits of 16-24 year olds

10-Apr-2014 By Carina Perkins

Young people still value good customer service when they visit restaurants, with price and convenience also influencing choice, according to new research from Voxburner.

Pizza Express launches training scheme for undergraduates

12-Dec-2013 By Mark Wingett

Pizza Express has launched new undergraduate placements to help recruit future leaders for the hospitality industry.

Pizza Express appoints Richard Hodgson chief executive

13-Apr-2013 By Emma Eversham

Gondola Holdings has appointed Richard Hodgson, former group commercial director at supermarket chain Morrisons, chief executive of Pizza Express. 

Posh pizza pushes on: Trendy and authentic specialists swap wheels for bricks ’n’ mortar

05-Apr-2013 By Joe Lutrario

Two high-profile mobile pizza vendors are taking permanent premises in London, becoming the latest outfits to join the capital’s booming premium pizza market.

Ask Italian: Business Profile

16-Jan-2013 By William Drew

The competition may be fierce and its rivals more fashionable, but Steve Holmes has taken to the tough job of revitalising mainstream chain Ask Italian with gusto.

Pizza Express is favoured restaurant brand of 18 to 24-year-olds

26-Nov-2012 By Emma Eversham

Pizza Express has emerged as the favourite restaurant chain of 18 to 24-year-olds, beating Nando's, Wagamama, GBK and Prezzo as the youth market's top choice when eating out. 

Pizza Express targets corporate sector with incentive scheme

18-Jan-2012 By Peter Ruddick

Pizza Express is targeting the corporate sector by introducing a business incentive scheme which allows companies to buy restaurant vouchers as rewards for their employees.

Pizza Express begins 'biggest rebrand' in company history

07-Sep-2011 By Becky Paskin

Pizza Express is undergoing the biggest brand makeover in the company’s 46-year history in homage to its ‘pizzaiolos’ and their striped shirts.

Jamie’s Italian’s Blagden claims top award

04-Mar-2011 By Mark Wingett

Simon Blagden, the man who has led the roll out of the Jamie’s Italian chain, has been singled out by his peers as the stand-out individual in the eating-out and drinking-out market.

Pizza Express rolls out Living Lab design

24-Feb-2011 By Becky Paskin

Pizza Express is set to roll out the pioneering features from its Living Lab site in Richmond to the rest of its estate, starting with six “New Generation” restaurants penned to launch in the next two months.

X Factor takeaway at Pizza Express, and Tea Parties at Drunken Monkey

10-Dec-2010 By Becky Paskin

Restaurants, hotels and pubs including Pizza Express and the Drunken Monkey, tell us what promotions they’re running to lure in customers.

Alternative staff training: How Pizza Express uses flirting and dialogue

22-Nov-2010 By Lorraine Heller

Often the personal skills required to work in our industry can't be cultivated using traditional training techniques, which is why Pizza Express chose to hire a dialogue coach to encourage its staff to flirt and converse more with its diners.

Pizza Express unveils radical restaurant template

27-Oct-2010 By William Drew

Casual dining giant Pizza Express has unveiled its new restaurant design template in Richmond, featuring a central theatre-style kitchen, banquette-seat tables with their own parabolic roof domes, bespoke music and fresh furniture and tableware

Pizza Express bids for breakfast market with ‘new generation’ restaurant

21-Sep-2010 By Rachel Johnson

Pizza Express is set to serve breakfast for the first time as it opens the first of its “new generation” restaurants in Richmond next month

Gondola buys Pizza Express international arm

17-Sep-2010 By Martyn Leek

Gondola Holdings, the casual dining restaurant group, has acquired the international franchise arm of Pizza Express

Pizza Express king of the discount vouchers with demand set to soar

24-Jun-2010 By Chris Druce

Pizza Express offers more discount vouchers than any other restaurant chain, with demand for deals set to reignite as consumers feel the pinch of higher VAT following the budget

Pizza Express introduces low alcohol and low calorie wine range

05-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

Pizza Express has added low calorie and low alcohol red and white wines to its Leggera range to appeal to customers watching their weight or alcohol intake and help fulfil its healthy eating commitment to the Food Standards Agency

Jamie Oliver and Pizza Express 'most admired' by restaurant industry

10-Aug-2009 By Emma Eversham

150 senior restaurant executives show their admiration for the celebrity chef, the pizza chain and other emerging restaurant brands in the latest survey of the market

Business profile: Steve Hill of Wagamama

12-Nov-2008 By Paul Wootton

Other brands have tried and failed but Wagamama chief executive Steve Hill believes his cult noodle chain company has what it takes to succeed in the States

Restaurant Tip Row Continues

18-Apr-2008 By Claire Miller

The issue of tip distribution is ever contentious, with more protests outside Pizza Express today over the controversial sacking of a vocal employee