PizzaExpress

We love our loyal pizza fans and are always looking for new ways to say thank you, whether that's free Piccolo meals, Dough Balls or Romana upgrades! So it was great to see our industry-leading PizzaExpress Club loyalty scheme take centre stage at this week's MCA Insight - Leaders in Eating & Drinking Out Market Insight's HOSTECH Conference where our Chief Digital & Technology Officer Arslan Sharif spoke about how we’ve innovated over the past three years to deliver an epic loyalty programme (free PizzaExpress menu items every time you dine, anyone? 🙌).  Arslan said of speaking at HOSTECH, "Thank you to MCA for hosting an insightful event. It was a pleasure to speak with my fellow panellists about progress in the industry and hearing all the speakers talk about Digital, Tech, AI, Data & Loyalty. It was great to share the amazing progress we’ve made at PizzaExpress in creating an omnichannel experience with our Club app for our most loyal customers.”   Two of the things we love most combined: seeing our people speak so passionately about their work at PizzaExpress and offering tasty rewards every time you dine with us 🍕📱.

It's the same pizza you know and love, but enjoyed in a refreshed, revived and lively surrounding! 2024 really has been the year for our pizzerias: 🗝️ 3 new openings (including a pizza pre-flight at Gatwick South ✈️) 🎨 70 refurbishments  👀 and more to come next year Shout out to our Property and Design teams, led by Property Director Clive Bentley and Design Director Robert Weller, who have made this all possible and the local teams who make our restaurants lively dining destinations. Take a flip through the below to see how we’re looking at Oxford Summertown, Birmingham ICC, Marlow, Norwich… and so many more ✨👇 #pizzaexpress #newopenings #restaurantdesign 

Fancy a coffee with our Leadership Team? Here at PizzaExpress, that’s exactly what we do☕ We are a business which not only listens to our pizza fans, but to our people too. This October, our teams across the country grabbed their favourite hot beverage (many from our new coffee machines – try it!) and tuned into our Q4 live Q&A with our Leadership Team. See below (L - R) our Chief People Officer Kate Hetherington, Chief Operating Officer Lawrence Harvey, Head of Communications Fiona Walker, CEO Paula MacKenzie, and interim Chief Financial Officer Rodney Hicks. These meetings give us as a business the opportunity to celebrate what we have achieved together in the last quarter, share upcoming exciting initiatives and developments, and importantly, they act as an open forum to share what is on everyone’s minds and capture any new ideas. This session was particularly energised as we prep for peak and enter our Golden Quarter. Even better, we awarded this quarter's team members with some well-deserved recognition✨ Congratulations to special recognition winners Rian O'Mahony, Pavlos Skaperas, Klaudia Romanowicz and Jackie Beveridge, along with our Golden Pizza Pin winners Susana Calixto, Joanna Malinowska, Pasquale Lanzuolo and Danny Hamilton! 👏 #pizzapanel #goldenquarter #pizzaexpress #milano #leadership #coffee

Icons at an icon 🎵🍕 📸 Our PizzaExpress Abbey Road team recently served up our delicious pizzas at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards for the second year in a row - and they went down a treat! Pizza is best served with a side music which is in our DNA at PizzaExpress, having featured live music in our restaurants since the late 60s. Having launched our flagship live music venue in Soho in the 70s, it's only fitting that our pizzas made an appearance at the iconic Abbey Road Studio's Music Photography Awards. Some of history's most well-known musicians have graced these studios... and now our famous American Hot has too 🙌 A big congratulations to all the event's winners - an incredible achievement! Interested in learning more about PizzaExpress Live? Check it out here 👉 https://lnkd.in/egrT4Z-m #pizzaexpress #pizzaexpresslive #abbeyroad #music 

You’ve heard of our world-famous Dough Balls, but have you heard of our Pizza Panel?    The work they do is game-changing in our business, so today, instead of talking about pizza (naturally our favourite topic 😉) we’re going to spotlight our panel.    They’re a group of creative, inspiring, and forward-thinking team members who come together four times a year – travelling from Limerick through to Falmouth (and everywhere in between) – to talk pizzerias and operations, sharing first-hand feedback from our teams and bringing brilliant thinking to the table with Lawrence Harvey, Chief Operating Officer and Kate Hetherington, Chief People Officer.    Most recently, the panel has been testing out our fantastic new coffee machines and giving us their thumbs up – just a taste of what goes on behind the scenes to give our pizza fans the special experience they know and love.    #pizzaexpress #pizzapanel #innovation #people #pizza

Spotted: PizzaExpress' marketing team taking over Leake Street Arches 👀 Hidden under the arches by Waterloo station, the team recently visited London's largest legal graffiti wall to get inspired as they planned 2025 - and made the most of the opportunity to spread a little PizzaExpress flair to the wall! 🎨 They. Got. Creative. Can you spot our 'flaring' Pizzaiolos, our iconic filagree roundel, and PizzaExpress Live touches? Teambuilding days are important to us at PizzaExpress, allowing our people to get together out of the office and share brilliant ideas - and with skills like this, we can't wait to see what 2025 has in store! #lettherebeflair #pizzaexpress #creative #teamwork #art #flair #marketing

Perfect layers of rich, slow cooked ragu Bolognese, creamy bechamel and fresh pasta - our retail Bolognese Lasagna sounds award-winning… and it just might be! We're delighted to share our classic Bolognese Lasagna has been shortlisted for the best Italian Style Ready-Made Main Meal in the PAPA - The Pizza, Pasta & Italian Food Association Industry Awards 🏆 Having launched less than a year ago, this delicious ready meal means fans can enjoy their favourite dish at home. Nights in have never looked so good! 👏 #pizzaexpress #awardwinning #papaawards

Something new caught your eye at PizzaExpress lately? 👀 That would be our stunning new menus! Working with the talented team Brandon Consultants, these eye-catching new designs feature original artwork from the 60s that was created to enliven our restaurant walls. Paired with the delicious menu choices inside, you’ll be inspired and uplifted by everything on offer. Adding a touch of PizzaExpress flair before the main show is served – we love to see it! 

Nonna approved! 🙌 Our famous Dough Balls recently got a 'hot' new makeover, with American Hot Dough Balls launching on our Autumn menu. 🍂 A taste explosion that brings together two of our most iconic menu items, the American Hot and Dough Balls - we know how good they are, but we wanted to put them to the test to prove just how good. So we called in the experts: enter three New York-Italian Nonnas who shared their verdict... Shout out to our Social & PR team for this fun piece of content - we think it and our American Hot Dough Balls are a true American (and Italian) dream! #doughballs #nonna #pizzaexpress #americandream

In recognition of National Inclusion Week, we want to take a moment to remember how inclusion is part of our DNA at PizzaExpress through our three team-led inclusion networks – LGBTQIA+, Race & Ethnicity, and Neurodiversity – with a fourth, ‘Working Parents’, soon to launch.   With this year's theme being 'Impact Matters', there's no better time to share that we've been classed as a Leading Edge Inclusive Employer by WiHTL & Diversity in Retail, the only Collaboration Community devoted to increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in the Hospitality, Travel, Leisure and Retail sectors. We've been part of WiHTL since 2018 and this news is something we're pretty proud of - because every team member deserves to feel they can bring their whole, true selves at work. 🤝   What's more, we've been shortlisted for the Employee Journey award in the inaugural Inclusion In Awards, in recognition of our commitment to inclusiveness in our welcome to new starters, our training and development, opportunities to share feedback, and our three inclusion networks... awesome, right? 🙌   #inclusion #peoplefirst #impactmatters #nationalinclusionweeks #PizzaExpress #WiHTL