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title: "Pizza chains outperform the overall restaurant industry"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/6a7f872e-288c-48d6-9d46-1be58ce68a74
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/pizza-chains-outperform-the-overall-restaurant-industry-1570
category: "Pizza"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Pizza"
published: 2015-05-01T21:16:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T13:25:25.490Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/8d777f385d3dfec8815d20f7496026dc2489.png
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# Pizza chains outperform the overall restaurant industry

**TL;DR:** Pizza chains have outperformed the overall restaurant industry with same-store sales growth of over 6.4 percent in Q4 2014. Private pizza companies like Hungry Howie's and Marco's Pizza are also performing well.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2015-05-01. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/pizza-chains-outperform-the-overall-restaurant-industry-1570).*

## Story

Pizza chains have something to celebrate. Despite competition from grocery stores and fast-casual pizza brands, chains are outperforming the overall restaurant industry as of late.

Pizza franchises averaged same-store sales growth of more than 6.4 percent in Q4 of 2014 and continue to advance. In 2015, Domino’s Pizza Inc. reported a 14.5 percent first-quarter sales increase – the best domestic result in the last 16 years.

Private pizza companies like Hungry Howie’s and Marco’s Pizza are also performing well. Hungry Howie’s CEO Steve Jackson reported same-store sales increases of 10 percent.

“It’s really a great time to be in the pizza business,” Jackson told Nation's Restaurant News.

The reason for the increasing success is the business model of pizza chains, which promotes convenience while enticing families and groups looking to spend less money.

“It’s a community food,” Bryon Stephens, Marco’s president and chief operating officer, told NRN. “Whether it’s family, friends or neighbors, we add to the value equation and have food everybody can share.”

Along with convenience and value, pizza chains were one of the first early adopters of technology to make ordering seamless and easy. Online ordering made pizza chain operations more efficient and customer friendly.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- restaurant industry (topic)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- Domino's (company)
- Marco's Pizza (company)
- online ordering (topic)
- Hungry Howie's (company)
- same-store sales growth (topic)
- private companies (topic)
- Steve Jackson (person)
- pizza chains (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/pizza-chains-outperform-the-overall-restaurant-industry-1570). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/6a7f872e-288c-48d6-9d46-1be58ce68a74).