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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.