PIZZA POWER 2020 The pizza industry is undergoing a radical transformation, but there will be no shortage of new moneymaking opportunities for operators who can adapt to change in the coming year. BY RICK HYNUM
“Digital disruption” has become something of a buzz phrase in the pizza business in recent years, but that term only tells part of the story of an industry that’s evolving at a dizzying pace. We’ve written at length about the online ordering revolution in past Pizza Power Reports—you know the drill by now, and if you haven’t made your peace pizzeria owners are contending with an entirely new crop of opportunities and challenges, from the startling rise of
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with it yet, there’s no time like the present. Beyond that,
third-party aggregators to the surging popularity of plantbased proteins and the mysteries of a colossal consumer demographic known as Generation Z (yes, another younger generation to figure out).
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