Dodo Pizza to invest $1.6 mln in its first national campaign on TV

Fyodor Ovchinnikov04/18/201804/19/2018

This week, we’ve launched our first national ad campaign in Russia. It’s a huge step forward for the company, a new level, and on top of that, a great opportunity for our brand. Why?

It’s simple. Dodo Pizza has become the first brand to be promoted on national TV in the “pizza” category. Previously, our competitors aired their commercials only in regional blocks (for example, only in Moscow). Nobody did it across the country before us.

18.04.2018

How much Russians love pizza: Dodo’s study of the Russian pizza market

Maxim Kotin11/29/201711/30/2017

Okay, we’ve been in the pizza business for almost seven years. And recently, we asked ourselves: in general, how popular is pizza in Russia—our home country, where Dodo Pizza is the market leader?

With more than 230 deliveries, we now have the biggest pizza chain in Russia. Today, the Dodo brand is present in the capital, as much as in Russia’s regional centers and small towns from Kaliningrad, the country’s western outposts, to the Far East. If anyone has the data to answer this question, it’s us.

So our team crunched some numbers, and it turned out that…

29.11.2017

Go to gemba: why Dodo Pizza’s office is going to be empty today

Maxim Kotin11/23/201711/23/2017

When somebody mentions gemba, it always makes me think of veggie smoothies. You know you should drink them because they are super healthy. But you never do.

Too much trouble and not as tasty as a greasy bun with some fried beef and cheese from the fancy burger joint around the corner.

Have no doubt: gemba is as healthy for your company as the smoothies are for your body. Yet while millions tout the benefits of the gemba process and continuous improvement and hammer home again and again how good it is to go to gemba, mere dozens put these ideas into practice.

23.11.2017

How to market a restaurant…without marketing it

Alena Tikhova09/12/201709/22/2017

People often ask me how we’ve done it. We barged into a crowded market with a generic product. We didn’t have any brand. We didn’t spend oodles of money on advertising, coupons, and promotions, like our competitors were doing. And while usually in our industry others go out of business in six months or a year, we saw profit in the second month. A year and a half later, we are still in business—and expanding. In this post, I’ll tell you how to market a restaurant without marketing it or at least how we did it—and how you can probably do the same in your niche.

12.09.2017