How to reinvent franchising with tech and transparency

Thanks to our policy of radical transparency, we at Dodo Pizza share a lot of stories and data on this blog and on social. But sometimes it's nice to have a different perspective and see everything through the eyes of an impartial observer. So, in this post we collect links to the latest media publications about Dodo from all over the world.Russia’s pizza king wants to use the cloud to take over the world

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Last week, Bloomberg published a story about Dodo Pizza.Here are a few quotes from the article.

• An archaeologist by education, Ovchinnikov, 38, and his franchisees have opened 457 pizzerias in Russia and 69 in 11 other countries... Now he’s planning to add another 1,000 in Europe, Asia and Africa over the next five years, a goal few people in the industry doubt he can achieve. That’s because of a secret sauce that isn’t edible, but ethereal—Dodo IS, a proprietary mix of application software and analytics stored in the cloud.
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This is a translation in English of an article about Dodo Pizza written by Benjamin Bidder and published in Germany on January 28th, 2019 by one of the country’s most established magazines: Der Spiegel. Though this piece doesn’t necessarily represent our point of view, we share it as it is, without any alterations.

Source: Diese Russen wollen Deutschland erobern - mit Pizza

What unites an ex-investment banker from Merrill Lynch, some top Russian programmers formerly employed by Intel and a marketing expert from Poland? They’ve joined forces in a start-up office on the outskirts of Moscow—and they’re making pizza....