Rainy weather and the Euro 2012 soccer championships helped lift profits at Britain's biggest pizza delivery firm, Domino's Pizza Group.
The company, said today that profit before tax for the six months through June rose 13.2% to £21.5m.
It operates the British, Irish and German franchises of the global delivery brand.
Domino's is one of the few companies to thrive in Britain's soggy summer, which has hit sales and profits at retailers such as Kingfisher and JJB Sports amid an already difficult retailing climate.
Online sales rose 43.3% over the six months to £121.2m, and now account for more than half of delivered orders in the UK, Domino's said.
"We must be one of the few people every day who come in and do rain dances at work, we love the rain because it keeps people in their homes," Domino's Chief Financial Officer, Lee Ginsberg said.
"But it's not just the weather, we did launch some very successful products ... and Euro 2012 helped our business as well," he said.
Like-for-like sales in the UK, where it has performed strongly despite an economic downturn, rose 5.7% up from 3.4% in the year before, while like-for-like sales in Ireland were up by 2.9%.
The company said it had opened 23 new shops and closed one during the period, giving it a total of 748, and added that it was confident of hitting its target of 60 new UK stores and 12 Germany stores by the end of the year.
The company intends to open another 18 stores in Germany next year. It hopes the German business will grow to twice the size of its British operation and will be profitable by 2015.
"Germany is coming along strongly, we're seeing some very encouraging and exciting early stages of growth there," Mr Ginsberg said.
Shares in Domino's, which have risen 26% since the start of the year, were down 2% at 509 pence at 0948 GMT, valuing the company at £847m.
