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Miami Herald

11-06-2025

• Miami Herald

Popular pizza chain adds experimental new menu item fans will love

Pizza is already delicious on its own, and part of what makes it great is how good the dough is. Many popular pizza chains have tried to play with this key base by launching adventurous mashups, such as Little Caesars' pretzel pizza, Domino's (DMPZF) Parmesan Stuffed Crust, and Pizza Hut's (YUM) Cheesy Bites Pizza. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter With growing competition and consumers' attraction to trends, innovation has become an essential investment for the food industry. Hence, many chains are developing creative combinations to take over the market. Related: Popular chicken chain menu brings back fan-favorite value combos Although it seems like pizza chains have already experimented with nearly every combination possible to make themselves stand out from the competition, there is one crust that few, if any, have yet to try. Image source: Bloomberg/Getty Images Papa Johns (PZZA) is introducing the new Croissant Pizza, which combines its iconic pizza sauce and toppings with a new buttery and flaky braided croissant crust. "As a brand built on innovation, distinction, and quality, we're always looking to global food culture for inspiration – and turning it into exciting new experiences that stand out. We conducted extensive research to understand what consumers wanted from our next global innovation. Croissant Pizza scored highly across all markets," said Papa Johns SVP Managing Director of International Chris Lyn-Sue in a press release. Related: Walmart makes deal to open popular food chain in stores The pizza chain noticed the impact that croissant-related mashups, like the viral cronut and crookie, have had on food culture worldwide, and saw an opportunity to try this trend out with pizza. "After a year in development, we're proud to unite two beloved icons into one craveable, delicious product that brings something fresh and exciting to the QSR category," said Lyn-Sue. To set this new menu item apart, Papa Johns also partnered with the clothing label KidSuper Studios to design the limited-edition Papa Johns x Kid Super Hot Bag to pair with the Croissant Pizza. As with its original pizzas, customers can personalize their Croissant Pizza with any toppings they like. And as delicious as this innovative menu item may sound, another Papa Johns marketing strategy offers even more unexpected twists than its new braided crust. The Croissant Pizza is currently only available in the United Arab Emirates. However, Papa Johns is bringing it for a limited time across participating markets, including Korea, China, Chile, and Peru. The pizza chain has not announced plans to make the Croissant Pizza available in the U.S. Still, the fact that it will become available across diverse select markets worldwide is a good sign that, if successful, the U.S. might make the list soon. More Food News: Popular fast-food burger chain aims major comeback amid closuresMcDonald's menu finally brings back most-wanted fan favoritePopular fast-food burger chain to open first store in new market Papa Johns has recently updated its menu to win back customers amid a challenging environment. This month alone, the pizza chain introduced the Cheddar Crust Pizza in Canada and relaunched the Shaq-a-Roni Pizza. In its first quarter earnings for fiscal 2025, Papa Johns' total comparable sales declined 1.3% compared to last year. Only time will tell if these recent menu additions are good enough to flip those negative numbers. Related: Veteran fund manager unveils eye-popping S&P 500 forecast The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.

Business Insider

06-06-2025

• Business Insider

VC giant Andreessen Horowitz's power move has spurred some niche drama at New York Tech Week

Venture capital juggernaut Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) pulled a power move at this year's Tech Week — and it's become the conference's most compelling niche drama. Tech Week, whose current iteration was started by A16z in 2022, returned to New York City this month with a full calendar of events just as the city started heating up for summer. The conference's "decentralized" nature means anyone can throw an event and apply to have it added to the official calendar, provided they follow a set of rules. However, one of this year's new rules has drawn criticism from some organizers and attendees: Official tech week events must use Partiful. "The only official events platform this year is Partiful," the 2025 Tech Week guide says. That's left Luma, a competing events platform popular at previous iterations of Tech Week, out in the cold. Versions of Tech Week's events FAQ document from 2023 and 2024 said events could use either Luma or Partiful. And here's what's gotten tongues wagging: A16z is invested in Partiful, but not in Luma. "I get the Partiful push this year. It's a portfolio company. Of course they're gonna try to make it the default," Olivia O'Sullivan, a partner and COO at Forum VC, wrote in a LinkedIn post critiquing the platform that led to a barrage of comments. "Hot take: next year, the people should take back NY Tech Week and bring back Luma as the default platform," she wrote. The change has been a headache for some organizers. Daniel Oberhaus, the founder of PR firm Haus, told Business Insider he couldn't get his defense tech rooftop party listed on the formal Tech Week schedule because he had used Luma to invite guests. "Most conferences we attend tend to be run through Luma," he said. When Oberhaus asked Tech Week organizers to add his event to the official calendar, they requested that he delete the Luma invite and remake it only on Partiful, he said. Oberhaus decided to keep the initial Luma invite since "hundreds of people" had already signed up. "Perhaps it's egg on our face in the sense that we should have just made a Partiful to begin with, but we were just using the platform we were familiar with," he said. "We had plenty of people in attendance, and we're just not on the official page now, which is, I think, a bit of a bummer for a distributed conference." Other event organizers and attendees also groused about the changes to what they said was once a free-wheeling gathering for the technorati with few rules on how events should or shouldn't be run. Luma cofounder Victor Pontis was measured in his response when asked for comment on the shift, but nodded to the power dynamics at play. "With successful initiatives like this, people naturally try to claim ownership since it's valuable and well-known," Pontis said. "Having control over what qualifies as a Tech Week event gives some power." Partiful vs. Luma Founded in 2020 by ex-Palantir staffers, Partiful has become a go-to app for young people hosting shindigs and offers a one-stop shop for hosts to customize their event pages and send text blasts and updates. Partiful has become especially popular in tech circles and among the under-30 crowd, and has been used by some Tech Week organizers in New York and LA in previous years. For some Tech Week attendees at this year's New York events, however, Partiful was a new — and not necessarily preferred — platform for RSVPs. Luma, also founded in 2020, has been a favorite event management platform for many in the tech world. Jacob Wallach, the creator behind the TikTok account Excel Daddy, told BI that when he attended Tech Week events last year, "it felt like everything was on Luma." Wallach also hosts events regularly in New York and typically uses Luma for managing RSVPs. On the other hand, Wallach said, Partiful is the app he and his peers often use for "birthdays, house parties, barbecues." Despite the drama, being the sole official platform could be a boon for Partiful. Natalie Neptune, founder of GenZtea, hosted multiple events this Tech Week. She used Partiful for these, which made it onto the official calendar, but said she typically uses Luma. "I started using Luma last year just because New York Tech Week used Luma," Neptune said. That same flywheel, if all goes well, could come to Partiful. The platform has also rolled out tools specifically for professional events, like collecting emails for RSVPs and syncing with calendars. Neptune said she thinks New York Tech Week and A16z's focus on Partiful this year "definitely will have more people" using the platform.

Yahoo

06-06-2025

• Yahoo

The Trump-Musk bromance is over. So what comes next?

This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up forBusiness Insider's daily newsletter here. Happy Friday! What do you get when you mix Pokémon-like trading cards with K-pop? A collectible that's big business. BI's Cheryl Teh describes the photo trading cards, known as "boy paper," as "a blood sport that's equal parts lottery and enterprise." In today's big story, the historic relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk dramatically imploded. What's on deck Markets: JPMorgan just put its foot down against its new junior bankers hunting for PE jobs. Tech: At NY Tech Week, the talk of the town was … the town. Business: Inside a wild three days at the world's biggest bitcoin party. But first, no love a toddler determined to pour their own milk, the Trump-Musk relationship seemed destined to crash. On Thursday, the proverbial glass finally spilled. President Donald Trump responded to Elon Musk's ongoing attacks on his "Big Beautiful Bill," saying he had a "great relationship" with the billionaire but that, "I don't know if we will anymore." Trump suggested to reporters that Musk's motivation was self-interest, citing the bill's phase-out of the electric vehicle tax credit that could negatively impact Tesla. The billionaire quickly fired back on X that his focus was the bill fueling the country's growing deficit. The rest, as they say, is history. Both men's attacks grew increasingly hostile. Musk, who spent almost $300 million on the 2024 election, took credit for Trump's win. Trump threatened to cancel Musk's government contracts, describing it as the "easiest way to save money in our budget." Not to be outdone, Musk said SpaceX would decommission its Dragon spacecraft. Five hours later, he appeared to walk back the decision in response to an X user. Musk also went after Trump's tariffs, saying they will cause a recession later this year. As BI's Peter Kafka pointed out, much of the fight took place between the two combatants' social platforms of choice: X (Musk) and Truth Social (Trump). Regardless of what's fueling Musk (we had some theories earlier this week), the impact on at least one of his businesses is already clear. Tesla gave back much of the gains accumulated in May. On Thursday alone, the stock fell 14%. Still, there's no point crying over spilled milk. Despite the split, both men remain two of the world's most powerful people. Which raises the question: Where do we go from here? Here are three big questions in the aftermath of the Trump-Musk breakup. Who gets the "kids" in the divorce? Both men have deep fan bases whose devotion rivals just about anyone's supporters. (Yes, that includes the Swifties and the BeyHive.) But there is also plenty of overlap between Team MAGA and the Elon acolytes. If things remain contentious between the two sides, will fans of both feel forced to pick a side? And if they do, who will come out on top? Is a reconciliation still on the table? White House aides have scheduled a call on Friday with Musk, Politico reported. Bill Ackman and Ye took to X to urge the duo to end their public feud. As brutal as the attacks have been, both men have traded barbs before. Back in 2022, Trump called Musk a "bullshit artist" while Musk said the then-former president shouldn't run for reelection and instead "hang up his hat & sail into the sunset." Fighting with Trump doesn't mean the person is on the outs forever, though. Just look at Secretary of State Marco Rubio. What happens to Musk's political allegiance? If Trump and Musk can't mend their relationship, the Tesla CEO could be without a political home. The GOP remains firmly in Trump's grasp, and Democrats seem highly unlikely to welcome Musk into their ranks. (And who's to say Musk would want to join them.) Perhaps sensing his potential future as a political nomad, Musk asked his X followers if it's time for a new party "that actually represents the 80% in the middle." It appears he already has one constituent: Mark Cuban. Here's what other business leaders had to say about the fallout. 1. JPMorgan's stern warning for junior bankers. Analysts who accept a "future-dated job offer" within their first 18 months of employment will be terminated if discovered, the firm said in a memo sent on Wednesday. It's an escalation of CEO Jamie Dimon's ongoing criticism of private equity's "on-cycle" recruitment process that continues to creep earlier and earlier. 2. Three reasons to bet on Palantir. Shares of Alex Karp's software giant have soared 74% year-to-date, outpacing the broader index and tech stocks to make it the second-best-performing S&P 500 stock of the year. Government deals, AI hype, and retail bullishness have propelled it to new heights. 3. Ken Griffin doesn't get Trump's MO. At the Forbes Iconoclast conference, the Citadel founder and GOP megadonor said he didn't understand why Trump wants to bring manufacturing "jobs that'll never pay much" back to the US. "It's one thing to make Nikes, it's another thing to make F-35 fighters," he said. 1. Meta's AI-driven hiring plan revealed. The company is planning to automate key parts of its job recruitment process, like testing coding skills and assisting interviewers with question prompts, per an internal document obtained by BI. It'll also use AI to evaluate its human interviewers. 2. Googlers behind NotebookLM launch their own AI startup. Last year, NotebookLM went viral with its AI-generated podcasts. Some of the team have since split from Google to work on Huxe, which released an app that leverages users' data to generate daily audio briefings. BI got a sneak peek. 3. New York Tech Week is NYC's pitch to be the new SF. Startup culture may have found a home in the Bay Area, but AI is picking up steam in the Big Apple. For techies, the city's Tech Week happy hours were a far cry from pulling a coding all-nighter. Spicy marg, anyone? 1. Three days at the world's biggest bitcoin party. Some 35,000 attendees gathered in Las Vegas for the Bitcoin Conference, complete with free Zyn, MAGA pride, and an awkward closing keynote. Here's what it was like. 2. How creators make Patreon their podcasting goldmine. Patreon helps creators turn audiences into paying subscribers, and podcasting is the platform's biggest category. Three creators told BI how they use the platform that makes one of them six figures a month. 3. For top business executives' pay, timing is money. Some corporate leaders could be enriching themselves by timing big, market-moving announcements around their scheduled stock options grant days. BI analyzed more than a decade's worth of executive compensation data and found some eye-opening patterns. Amazon cuts jobs in its Books business, internal email shows. Leaked Microsoft org chart shows the team Jay Parikh assembled to lead CoreAI, full of fellow ex-Meta execs. Meet the 'reclusive' tech billionaire making an audacious bid to buy TikTok. Inside Citadel's most selective intern class ever, from where they go to school to what they study. 'We live in a terrarium': Larry Fink on why today's leaders should be 'more guarded.' Content karma catches up to Reddit in its fight with Anthropic. A top consulting firm rips up its traditional billing playbook for the AI era. A US Navy sailor walked BI through what it was like shooting down a small drone with a .50 caliber machine gun. Nine cocktails that will be everywhere this summer, according to bartenders and mixologists. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly employment report. The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York (on parental leave). Hallam Bullock, senior editor, in London. Grace Lett, editor, in Chicago. Amanda Yen, associate editor, in New York. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, in New York. Lina Batarags, bureau chief, in Singapore. Ella Hopkins, associate editor, in London. Elizabeth Casolo, fellow, in Chicago. Read the original article on Business Insider