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Pieology Pizzeria is a Tustin, California-based pizza chain within the fast-casual dining restaurants category. Founded in 2011 by Carl Chang, the brother of former tennis player Michael Chang, [5] Pieology's mission is to "turn one of America's favorite food into an affordable and interactive experience". [6]
The first menu, including the famous BBQ Chicken Pizza, was developed by Ed LaDou, then the pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant. CPK became an immediate success, and the company expanded throughout Southern California. By 1992, there were 26 CPKs. [12] Flax and Rosenfield served as co-CEO and co-chairmen of CPK from 1985 through to ...
This is a list of pizza chains of the United States. This list is limited to pizza chain restaurants that are based, headquartered or originated in the United States . The distinction between national chains and primarily regional chains is only indicative of geographic footprint and not necessarily of the overall size of the chain.
California-style pizza with greens, egg, bacon, and garden vegetables. In 1985, LaDou helped two inexperienced lawyer-restaurateurs, Richard L. Rosenfeld and Larry S. Flax, start a new restaurant concept, California Pizza Kitchen (also known as "CPK"). He brought them many of Spago's recipes, which he had carefully saved. [6]
Until recently, Greenland's 56,000 citizens went about their lives on the sparsely populated mid-Atlantic island far from the glare of international attention. Now they find themselves — and ...
The company then bought 26 Pietro's Pizza restaurants in March 1996 in a $2.8 million deal in cash and assumed debt, but then sold off seven of the locations with plans to convert the remaining Pietro's to what was then BJ's Pizza. [10] During the same year, the company opened a microbrewery at its Brea restaurant. [11]
Pizza My Heart is a chain of pizzeria restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast. The chain was founded in 1981 in Capitola, California, by Fred Poulos and Keith Holtaway. 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.
It was the first time Marco's Pizza had ever appeared on this list. [17] #1 America's Favorite Pizza Company (2017 Market Force study) #2 Pizza company on Business Insider ' s List of 25 Best Fast Food Chains in America #2 on the Restaurant Business Magazine Top Chains by Menu Pizza Category #3 Ranking on the Franchise Gator Top 100 Franchises