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Both Wolfgang Puck and California Pizza Kitchen were instrumental in turning California-style pizza from a gourmet food trend to a mass consumer food product. Based on the success of his pizzas and his status as a celebrity chef, Puck opened a series of restaurants, ranging from high-end clones of Spago to convenience chains for airports and mall food courts.
Shakey's Pizza is a pizza restaurant chain based in the United States and the Philippines. [1] Founded in 1954, it was the first franchise pizza chain in the United States. [2] [3] In 1968, the chain had 342 locations. [4] The chain had about 500 stores globally, and 58 in the United States, as of July 2019.
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.
Gino's East was opened in 1966 [1] by Sam Levine, Fred Bartoli, and George Loverde. Previously, they had opened the original Gino's in 1960 at 930 N. Rush Street. They bought a building on East Superior Street "but didn't know what to put in it," Levine told a Tribune reporter in 1983, when the restaurant was sold to new owners.
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 ...
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]
Beginning with four restaurants in Massachusetts, the chain rapidly expanded over the next decade. The company began franchising in 1980. [5] In 1988, the Uno Foods division was established and went on to sell frozen and pre-made deep-dish pizza in supermarkets, stadiums, airports, movie theaters, hotel restaurants, and at service plazas [6] [7]
MOD Pizza is an American fast-casual pizza restaurant chain based in Seattle, Washington. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Founded in 2008, MOD has more than 560 locations as of December 2023 [update] in the United States and two locations in Canada .