Around the Industry: Australian Pizza News

AU pizza news EATA POS Launches New Site for Operators
The EATA POS company started the new year with some new ideas. You may have noticed there is a new website at WWW.EATA.com.au. The site has an FAQ area where you can post questions and suggestions. For more info about EATA, contact them at support@Eata.com.au.

Pizza News Australia and PMQ’s Pizza Australia Magazine Offer Operator Info Site
PMQ’s Pizza Australia magazine is proud to announce the launch of a new peer-to-peer info site with www.PizzaNews.com.au. The site is a message board designed to offer a forum where operators can visit at their leisure and share info and ask questions to help increase sales, obtain new marketing ideas and share info to help grow their businesses. The model is based on the extremely successful message board used by US pizza operators hosted by PMQ’s Pizza Magazine (US edition). “It is my goal, along with Pizza Australia’s Publisher Tom Boyles, to create a community for pizza operators and industry leaders to come and share knowledge that they can’t get anywhere else,” said Stephen Millar, publisher of PizzaNews.com.au. “In the US, thousands of operators use a similar message board and post as many as 40 questions and responses each day. We want to provide a forum just like this for Australia to help grow our industry and help operators be more successful through peer-topeer contact.” To participate, or simply view this forum, go to www.PMQAUSTRALIA.com and click on Think Tank.

Domino’s Launches New Menu Offerings
Australian owned and operated, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited has launched its new Supreme Salads as part of its ‘better for you’ menu option. The Supreme Salads range includes three gourmet options - Zesty Caesar, Zingy Crisp (both also available with tender roast chicken) and Ranch BBQ Chicken. Each salad comes with its own Birch & Waite premium salad dressing.

“Our new Supreme Salads are about giving our customers a ‘better for you’ menu option. We found some of our customers are after more than just a great tasting pizza and we think the new salads will add an extra dimension to our business,” Domino’s CEO Don Meij said. “The premium Birch & Waite salad dressings – cracked pepper and lemon, creamy ranch and sesame soy chilli – complement the three salad varieties.”

The Supreme Salads are part of Domino’s new 2008 menu, which also includes the recently launched Big Taste Range featuring the 7 Meats, Super Lot, Fire Eater, Big Bacon, Ham and Pineapple and Chicken Feast pizzas, all with extra cheese and 50% more toppings.

Australian owned and operated, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd and its franchisees operate 472 stores across Australia and New Zealand , employing more than 11,000 casual and full-time staff and making more than 50 million pizzas each year. Domino’s is Australia ’s first publicly-listed pizza chain, making its debut on the Australian Stock Exchange in May 2005.

Register for The Best of the Best Pizza Competition
Time is running out! Already, the process has begun to determine who will be crowned as the best pizza maker in Australia. Could you be the next big winner? There is only one way to find out…you have to be in it to win it. To learn more about Dairy Farmer’s Best of the Best competition and how you can register, go to www.bestofthebest.com.au. You can also request an entry form by contacting them via phone on 1800 777 556 or via mail at BOTB Event Manager, PO Box 30, Booval QLD 430. Here are upcoming dates to remember

VIC/TAS STATE FINAL
30 May – 1 June
Good Food & Wine Show – Melbourne
Entries close 30/04/08 5pm

NSW/ACT STATE FINAL
20 – 22 June
Good Food & Wine Show – Sydney
Entries close 19/05/08 5pm

SA/WA STATE FINAL
11 – 13 July
Good Food & Wine Show – Perth
Entries close 23/05/08 5pm

NATIONAL FINAL
22-25 September

XLT ovens to be distributed by J.L. Lennard
The XLT range of impinger ovens – renowned internationally for combining high performance baking with low maintenance and energy consumption – is to be distributed in Australia by J.L. Lennard.

XLT’s top quality design, by a manufacturer committed to building the world’s best pizza ovens, makes operation simple and smart for fast cooking and easy cleaning with a wide variety of foods. The new range had its first showing at the Brisbane Fine Food Show in March, says J.L. Lennard Food Equipment General Manager Mr Matthew Challinor.

XLT’s heavy duty stainless steel ovens are built for easy installation and the longest life in the industry, backed with an extendable two-year warranty on all components and a 10-year warranty against rust and a similar warranty on fan blades and conveyor shafts.

“The robust and user-friendly range of ovens is also designed for lower energy consumption, a fact demonstrated when XLT Ovens received the 2006 Domino’s Pizza, LLC, Partner Award for cost savings and exemplary service,” said Mr Challinor. “XLT’s global resources – including its new state-of-the-art 18000 sq m US headquarters and 250 service centres worldwide – are ideally complemented by the Australia-wide resources of J.L. Lennard as one of Australia’s longest-established and most respected food service companies.” For Sales & Service please Tel:1800 777 440