Pizza Inn announces fresh partnership with Coca-Cola

31/10/05 Pizza Inn has announced that The Coca-Cola Company will serve as its primary beverage partner in the chain's nearly 250 buffet and delivery/carryout operations.

Following an extensive review, Pizza Inn executives and franchisees elected to make the switch to Coca-Cola and will begin the conversion process effective immediately. The new Pizza Inn fountain and bottle/can offerings will include Coke(R), Diet Coke(R), Sprite(R), Barq's(R) Root Beer, Minute Maid Lemonade(R) and Hi-C Fruit Punch(R).

Pizza Inn's new beverage program is projected for completion by early February 2006.

Pizza Inn, founded in 1958, is a hometown restaurant focused on serving made-from-scratch pizzas to generations of families who like their service and hospitality served with big smiles and even bigger hearts. A Dallas, Texas-based Company, Pizza Inn, through its franchisees, licensees and corporate restaurants, operates nearly 400 restaurants in domestic and international locations.

Coca-Cola Foodservice and Hospitality serves the restaurant and hospitality industry as part of The Coca-Cola Company, the world's leading producer and marketer of soft drinks. Along with Coca-Cola(R), recognized as the world's most valuable brand, Coca-Cola Foodservice markets four of the world's top five soft drink brands, as well as premium branded juices, sports drinks, frozen beverages, teas, mixers and bottled waters. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company's beverages at a rate exceeding 1 billion servings each day.

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