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Speaking to QSR Media, Andy Masood, Head of Development & Supply Chain at Yum shared the growth plans for Pizza Hut in Australia over the next 8 to 10 years. Seeing the pizza category as a growing category in terms of outlets and also frequency of purchase by customers, he will be spearheading a national campaign to increase the number of stores to around 500 from their current 270 stores nationally. Most of these will be franchised. Building on their strong brand awareness and the existing market penetration they will be targeting major metro cities first then moving to smaller regional areas. Masood advised that the plan will be to "slowly build momentum" and will be based on "solid unit economics, offering the right return of investment to franchisees". This marks a change of focus and strategy for Yum as more emphasis is put into their individual KFC and Pizza Hut brands following the appointment of a dedicated CEO to each chain.  

BMF will lead Domino's strategic direction and creative advertising for its Australian and New Zealand business.

Eagle Boys is expecting to sell more than 700,000 pizzas between Good Friday (22 April) and 26 April.

CEO Sophie Valkan talks with QSR Media on where the group is at and about its legal woes.

Nando's and Boost are both thrilled to announce a trial joint promotion following the launch of a new Nando's restaurant in Greenwood Plaza, North Sydney.

Eagle Boys Pizza will next Monday join forces with Video Ezy's Flash Rewards program as part of its expansion drive.

Talking exclusively to QSR Media Luke Baylis, MD, Sumo Salad gave his overall negative opinion of “Impractical, problematic and cumbersome legislation” the NSW government passed last year.

To kick off the refurbishment program 40 stores will immediately begin the transformation with more stores being added to the program at different stages this year.

The crisis phase of the QLD floods has now passed and attention to the affected communities has inevitably dwindled.

Sunshine Kebabs have told QSR Media they they have just signed master franchise agreement for Malaysia with the owners of the Malaysian Baskin and Robins. This adds to their other OS Master Franchise agreements with India and UK, Turkey, South Korea, India.  

A series of new and revamped websites for Franchised Food Company and each of its brands have been launched.

The Australian Government Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Catherine King, recently chaired the sixth meeting of the Food and Health Dialogue on 25 March 2011. This has massive implications for the industry as it is looking at everything from smaller portion sizes,  the reformulation of foods (to reduce salt, sugar, saturated fat) and the introduction of POS nutritional information.

'The Double' will be available in stores across Australia this week. 'The Double' features two breast fillets, two slices of cheese and bacon.

The 'out of the box' sculpture is made entirely out of Eagle Boys pizza boxes and packaging.

Signalling the importance and profitability of the coffee trade MYO sandwich bars have launched an in-house promotion they believe will translate to increased external coffee sales.

Wayne Homschek, founder Pie Face confirmed with QSR Media this week that floating their bakery cafe is firmly on the agenda.