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Sarpino’s Pizzeria will develop corporate locations in South Florida.
December 2, 2015
Sarpino's Pizzeria has announced it will open corporate locations in South Florida. Formerly a franchise only system, Sarpino's franchisees Dmitry Shapiro and David Chatkin will open the corporate stores, according to a company press release. Sarpino's Performance Improvement Consultant Vasili Bykau made the choice to secure and open the first Sarpino’s Pizzeria corporate location in Ft. Lauderdale and will be in charge of all corporate locations that subsequently open.
"Corporate had been planning to build its first location," Bykau said. "They were originally looking in Philadelphia, but decided they wanted to develop South Florida. They had been looking for about a year, working with real estate developers, trying to find the perfect location because they did not want to compete with any local franchise owners and take business away from them."
Slava Kopilevich, the previous owner of the location, approached corporate about selling his Ft. Lauderdale location.
"The Ft. Lauderdale location will serve as a test for our multi unit management program," Bykau said. "Having a tremendous multi unit management system in a business model is very important to food service operators/ We will be using ours at this location at 100 East Broward Blvd. and hope to have another open in the area by January of 2016."
Sarpino's Pizzeria is based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and has 49 locations in eight states.
