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pizza chains
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A Perfect Fit: Retailers Blur Lines with Fresh Takes on In-Store Dining
Shopping and dining have long gone hand in hand, and for many consumers, they’re complementary pursuits. With few notable exceptions, however, retail and foodservice have chugged along on separate tracks, operating their own business models and, when proximity and demographics work in their favor, giving each other a boost of steam. Now, that scenario is changing fast.
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STACKED Opens in Huntington Beach
In opening its fifth location, STACKED: Food Well Built, enhanced its design to feature more industrial-urban chic elements and include more wood treatments that underscore the “stacked” nature of the brand.
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Zoom Pizza Enters the Fast-Casual Pie Competition
Zoom Pizza Factoryjoined the growing fast-casual pizza segment with its first store location opening in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
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Farm Bar Showcases Farm-To-Table Design in Chicago
Farmheads, the growing hospitality collective responsible for hyper-local, farm-fare concepts Farmhouse Chicago and Farmhouse Evanston, opened Farm Bar, a "little sister" concept in the heart of Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
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MidiCi Ups the Fast-Casual Pizza Ante
Seeking to stake a claim as the first "fast-fine" Neapolitan pizza chain, MidiCi celebrated the grand opening of its flagship unit in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on June 20. The concept, developed by Amit Kleinberger, CEO of the 500-unit Menchie's Frozen Yogurt chain, enters the fast-casual pizza fray with an elevated approach to both food and ambiance.
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Q&A With: John Ferdinandi, CEO, Milano Restaurants/Blast 825° Pizza
Milano Restaurants International, which operates the Me-n-Ed’s Pizza Parlor, Victory Grill and Coney Island Grill concepts, entered the fast-casual pizza fray in 2013 with Blast 825° Pizza.
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DIY Debuts New Co-Branded Pizza, Frozen Yogurt Restaurant
DIY Restaurant Group launched its newest operation, named uBuild + Trugurt Duo, in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., this week.
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Adaptive Reuse: Pizza Man, Milwaukee
Pizza Man, a Milwaukee institution since the 1970s, lost its original cozy, dark, 55-seat location to a fire in 2010.
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A Q&A with Cameron Cumming, Vice President of Franchise Marketing and Recruitment for Marco's Pizza
Marco's Pizza opened 109 new locations across the country in 2013 and increased system-wide sales by more than 32 percent, resulting from a growth strategy that focused on implementing best practices and efficient systems and building a positive company culture. Overall, the approach contributed to doubling the company's size in five years.
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Snapshot: Fast-Casual Pizza Chains Fire Up
The fast-casual pizza segment continues to sizzle, tossing a whole new competitive element into the mix for both traditional pizzerias and other fast-casual concepts. Here’s a look at recent development moves made by three up-and-comers.
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Pizza Patrón Targets 50 New Stores
Pizza Patrón will reboot its franchising push this year, targeting strategic new markets and adding more stores in existing ones.