LONDON (ShareCast) – Pizza delivery firm Domino’s Pizza saw a slow-down in year-on-year like-for-like (LFL) sales growth in the final quarter of 2012, as expected, but said it is on target to meet full-year profit expectations.

In the 13 weeks to December 25th, LFL sales rose by 3.6%, down from the preceding quarter’s 3.9% growth. Panmure Gordon had predicted LFL sales growth of 3.3%. System sales for the period increased by 9.5% to £145.0m from £132.5m in the corresponding period of last year.

Over the full 52-week period to Christmas day, LFL sales were up 3.0% year-on-year, with the UK

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LONDON (ShareCast) – Wednesday looks like it could be a big day for the retail sector with fashion chain Next (Xetra: 779551 – news) making a trading announcement that should give a clue to how the festive shopping season went. The retailer is set to release sales figures covering the period up to and including Christmas Eve, and may also provide some anecdotal indications of how the post-Christmas sales period has been going.

Next’s performance may not necessarily be a reliable indicator for how the High Street (BSE: HIGHSTREE.BO – news) in

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Gainesville Fire Department Chief Steve Boone said the incident, which began shortly before 5 p.m., was essentially a prank — one featuring a makeshift unit built from foil and small batteries — that got a drastic response.

“It was not any kind of explosive device, but was made to resemble one,” Boone said Wednesday. “As far as any suspects or reasons or leads as to why it was there, we don’t have anything yet.”

Both Boone and Cici’s Pizza District Manager Tim Weaver said the incident began when a customer approached a female employee Tuesday evening and reported seeing a

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Police are looking for a man who robbed a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Murray Sunday night.

It happened around 9:30 p.m. at 153 E 4500 S. The suspect entered the restaurant, brandished a silver-colored handgun, demanded money and fled the scene.

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Police are looking for a man who robbed a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Murray Sunday night.

It happened around 9:30 p.m. at 153 E 4500 S. The suspect entered the restaurant, brandished a silver-colored handgun, demanded money and fled the scene.

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NEW YORKa – Papa John’s Pizza is apologizing after an employee typed a racial slur on a receipt to a customer at one of its New York City locations.

Customer Minhee Cho posted a message on Twitter along with an image of the receipt from a Manhattan location describing her as “lady chinky eyes.”

Several hours later after the message had gone viral, the Louisville, Ky.-based company formally apologized on its Facebook and Twitter pages for Cho’s experience.

The company says the employee was dismissed.

Spokeswoman Tish Muddon told the Louisville Courier-Journal that the company was attempting to reach Cho to apologize.

Cho didn’t immediately

Source: http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/papa-johns-apologizes-for-racial-slur-on-receipt_7075319

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