Pizza chains of the United States

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Pietro%27s Pizza

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Pizza Fusion

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Franchise Industry Restaurant/Pizza Headquarters Deerfield Beach, Florida

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Michael Gordon, Co-founder
Vaughn Lazar," >Pizza Fusion

Pizza Fusion is a Deerfield Beach, Florida-basedpizza restaurant chain. Using mostly organic ingredients and emphasizing green building methods, the restaurants operate under the tagline Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time.

Pizza Fusion was founded in 2006 by Michael Gordon and Vaughan Lazar. Lazar and Gordon had targeted Newman's Own, Patagonia and Starbucks as role models, before opening their first store. In April 2009 signed a franchise agreement for Saudi Arabia with the Samir Group, a Saudi Arabia-based conglomerate.

It specializes in oval-shaped gourmet pizzas, salads, sandwiches and beverages made from natural ingredients — along with gluten-free, vegan and lactose-free menu items.

At its peak, in 2008, the restaurant chain had 63 locations including those in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, as well as in Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Although it had projected growing to 300 stores by 2010, as of 2011 the chain was down to 13 locations.

Green construction materials and techniques used by the restaurant include a website powered by renewable energy, 100 percent post-consumer paper products, countertops remanufactured from plastic detergent bottles, wall insulation remanufactured from recycled blue jeans, 100% post-consumer drywall, non-VOC paint (volatile organic compounds), floor finishes with low VOC concrete sealant or renewable resources such as bamboo or cork, tiles from recycled glass bottles, low-flow toilets and sinks, Forest Steward Council wood, energy efficient—compact fluorescent lighting, super-efficient air conditioning and a heat exchange system that recaptures heat from the pizza ovens for the domestic hot water needs.

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Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise, known for its Italian-American cuisine menu including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts. The company has over 15,000 locations worldwide as of 2015, and is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., one of the world's largest restaurant companies.

Pizza Hut was founded in June 1958 by two Wichita State University students, brothers Dan and Frank Carney, as a single location in Wichita, Kansas.PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in 1977. Before closing in 2015, the oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut was in Manhattan, Kansas, in a shopping and tavern district known as Aggieville near Kansas State University. The first Pizza Hut restaurant east of the Mississippi was opened in Athens, Ohio in 1966 by Lawrence Berberick and Gary Meyers.

Pizza Hut's international presence includes Canada and Mexico in North America, India (not in the Pizza Hut division, but in the Yum! India division),Bangladesh, Pakistan, Australia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, and its Asian presence includes Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Aran Emirates, Qatar, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China (not in Pizza Hut division, but in the Yum! China Division), Hong Kong, South Korea, Myanmar, and Macau. Pizza Hut was one of the first American franchises to open in Iraq.

The company announced a rebrand that began on November 19, 2014. The rebrand was an effort to increase sales, which dropped in the previous two years. The menu was expanded to introduce various items such as crust flavors and eleven new specialty pies. Work uniforms for employees were also refreshed.

Pizza Hut is split into several different restaurant formats; the original family-style dine-in locations; store front delivery and carry-out locations; and hybrid locations that have carry-out, delivery, and dine-in options. Some full-size Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-eat" pizza, salad, bread sticks, and a pasta bar. Pizza Hut has other business concepts different from the store type; Pizza Hut "Bistro" locations are "Red Roofs" which have an expanded menu and slightly more upscale options.

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Pizza Inn

Pizza Inn

Pizza Inn (NASDAQ: RAVE) is an American restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pan pizza and side dishes. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas.

In 1958, two Texas brothers, F.J. (Joe) and R. L. Spillman, opened the first Pizza Inn across from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

In the mid-'80s, the restaurant chain had a commercial deal with the Von Erich family, icons in Texas at the time, with Kerry Von Erich, Kevin Von Erich, and Mike Von Erich appearing in a series of televised commercials. [1]

On June 3, 2011 Pizza Inn launched a new sister restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, known as Pie Five Pizza, that specializes in handcrafted pizzas ready in five minutes. [2].

As of January 2015, the parent company Pizza Inn Holdings was renamed RAVE Restaurant Group.

In the summer of 2016, Rave Restaurant Group announced a CEO transition plan, appointing interim CEO Clinton Coleman to succeed outgoing CEO Randy Gier.

As of November 2016, 158 locations are in operation in the United States.

Today, Pizza Inn operates 310 franchised stores and five corporate-owned stores in 12 countries, with several new stores scheduled to open in the next year. Pizza Inn is also popular in the Middle East.

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Pizza My Heart (restaurant)

Pizza My Heart is a chain of pizzeria restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. The chain was founded in 1981 in Capitola, California by Fred Poulos and Keith Holtaway and is now owned by Chuck Hammers. The chain currently has twenty-three locations. In 1997, the chain merged with Pizza-a-Go-Go, which was based in San Jose, California. The new locations inherited the Pizza My Heart name.

There are restaurants currently in Blossom Hill, Burlingame, Campbell, Capitola, Cupertino, Emeryville, Evergreen, Isla Vista, Los Gatos, Monterey, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Jose, San Mateo, San Ramon, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Walnut Creek and Willow Glen.

The original theme for Pizza My Heart, established by its founders, Fred Poulos and Keith Holtaway, was that of an urban East Coast pizzeria, a concept relatively rare in California at the time of its creation. The musical tastes were typified by "The Stones". The original image was cast by a series of eclectic street photos taken by Fred and originally published in the Santa Cruz entertainment weekly "Good Times" immediately after the first store opened on May 19, 1981. Shortly thereafter the duo was approached by up and coming cartoonist "Awest" who proposed rendering some of Fred's characters as cartoons and creating what amounted to a running comic strip as an advertising vehicle. The campaign proved hugely successful and led to the founding of the original Santa Cruz store at the old Transit Center in the downtown area. In 1983 "Awest" moved to L.A. to create storyboards for the fledgling MTV network but his cartooning tradition was carried on for Fred and Keith by John Johnson of Capitola. It also carried to the third PMH store on Clement St. in San Francisco and the second Santa Cruz location which was opened in 1988. This theme lost some energy when Fred left the business in 1990 and was completely changed when Keith completely sold out to the current owners several years later.

The theme of the current Pizza My Heart is a retro Hawaii look, emphasizing surfing, girls, and the beach. The walls are usually decorated with framed antique photos from the 1930s to the 1960s, and surfboards as well. At times, the restaurant also plays old surf songs from the 1960s, including hits from the Beach Boys.

The restaurant sells pizza by the slice or entire pies. Some locations offer gluten-free crusts or vegan whole pies. They also serve salads, breadsticks, chicken wings, and drinks.

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Pizza Patr%C3%B3n

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Pizza Ranch

Pizza Ranch, Inc.

The Pizza Ranch, Inc., founded in 1981, is a "fast casual" restaurant chain. Pizza Ranch offers pizza, chicken, a salad bar, and a pizza and chicken buffet. Pizza Ranch has over 200 locations in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Pizza Ranch is the largest regional pizza franchise in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

The first restaurant opened December 21, 1981, in Hull, Iowa. The six original house pizzas were the Roundup (deluxe), Sweet Swine (Hawaiian), Texan Taco, Bronco (meat lover's), Prairie (veggie lover's) and Sagebrush. Initially, Pizza Ranch only offered a Tuesday night buffet, while the rest of the dining hours were for take-out or dine-in orders. The second Pizza Ranch opened in Orange City in 1983, where the first noon buffet was introduced. In 1987, with the addition of a Sioux City restaurant, the menu expanded to offer chicken.

Pizza Ranch has grown over the years and now has franchises in thirteen states. Pizza Ranch's specialties are their pizza and chicken. Their headquarters, formerly located in Hull, Iowa, is currently located in Orange City, Iowa.

Pizza Ranch is a Christian-based company. The Pizza Ranch vision is "To glorify God by positively impacting the world we live in."

The chain has become a popular stop for conservative presidential candidates during the Iowa caucuses.

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The Pizza Studio

Pizza Studio is a Los Angeles-based pizza franchise founded in 2013 by entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Samit Varma. The fast-casual concept allows diners to create their own pizzas using four types of dough and a number of vegetables, meats, and cheeses that employees help put together in front of the customer. The pizzas are cooked in about 3 minutes in a self-ventilating conveyor oven.

The chain currently has stores in Arizona, Minnesota, New York, Kansas, Maryland, Washington DC, Utah and California, with over 250 others in development throughout the United States.

Their first branch in Asia is located in the Uptown Parade of Bonifacio Global City in the Philippines. Exclusive Filipino Cuisine flavors were introduced like Sisig and Chicken Inasal.

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Pizza Schmizza

Pizza Schmizza

Pizza Schmizza is an American pizza chain with 23 locations throughout the Portland, Oregon area, and two in southern Oregon. Pizza Schmizza, primarily selling thin crust pizza by-the-slice.

Pizza Schmizza opened its first location on August 6, 1993 in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon by brothers Andre and Roger Jehan.

In 2003, Pizza Schmizza received complaints from an advertising watchdog group for hiring homeless men to hold signs bearing the slogan "Pizza Schmizza paid me to hold this sign instead of asking for money". Owner Andre Jehan countered that this was a way to help the homeless and that the homeless found the arrangement a positive experience.

Pizza Schmizza received a media award from the Oregon Department of Human Services for support of a program discouraging underage alcohol consumption in 2004.

After CEO Doug Wetter was unable to do his day-to-day job with Pizza Schmizza, the company went into talks with Figaro's Pizza about selling the company. On March 31, 2008, Pizza Schmizza and Figaro's Pizza completed a deal for Figaro's to acquire Pizza Schmizza. Figaro's subsequently spun off the business (December 2014), and the two companies are no longer related.

Pizza Schmizza has 22 locations in and around Portland, one in Vancouver, Washington, and two in the Medford, Oregon metropolitan area in southern Oregon]]. Several locations are titled "Pizza Schmizza Pub & Grub", while others operate as Schmizza Public House and one as Bethany Public House. Out of the twenty Portland metro area restaurants, four are downtown.

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PizzaRev

PizzaRev

PizzaRev is a small fast casual chain of franchise pizza restaurants based in Los Angeles, California. The company also has non-franchise, corporate-owned stores. As of September 2016, the company has 46 stores in eleven U.S. states and Mexico. The company was founded in 2012 in Los Angeles by Rodney Eckerman and Irv Zuckerman, and their sons Nicholas Eckerman and Jeff Zuckerman. The company's slogan is "Craft your own!" The company's name, standing for Pizza Revolution, stems from the idea of empowering customers to build their own pizzas.

The first PizzaRev location was opened on April 20, 2012 in the Los Angeles community of Northridge, near the campus of California State University, Northridge. A second location was opened five months later in Studio City district of Los Angeles followed by a third location in Woodland Hills in December.

Expanding outside of Los Angeles County, PizzaRev opened its first Ventura County location in Oxnard in August 2013 and its first Orange County location in Santa Ana in August 2014.

The first international location was open in the Mexican city of Monterrey in April 2016.

Fare includes personal-sized pizzas and customized personal-size pizzas that customers can have prepared with their choice of two crusts, various sauces, cheeses and toppings. Customers queue in a cafeteria-style line when ordering, whereby company employees assemble fresh pizzas to order, after which they are cooked. PizzaRev restaurants include the option of selecting a gluten-free crust. All pizzas are priced at $8.25 each, regardless of how many toppings and ingredients are chosen. Pizzas are cooked in a fire-heated, 900 °F (482 °C) stone hearth pizza oven, which cooks the pizzas in under three minutes. Restaurant operations have been compared and described as similar to that of Chipotle Mexican Grill. PizzaRev restaurants are open during lunch and dinner hours.

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