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Toppers to expand with 6-unit deal

Toppers Pizza announced a multi-unit partnership with Sioux Falls-based Nordic Venture Partners.

May 22, 2015

Toppers Pizza announced a multi-unit partnership with Sioux Falls-based Nordic Venture Partners. The team will open six locations throughout South Dakota and Iowa over the next four years. Local resident and restaurant veteran Shane Quail will spearhead the growth in the area, with the backing of Nordic Venture Partners, led by the team of partners Paul Schock and Chad Hatch, the company announcement said.

"Our sales are up, our momentum is at an all-time high and we're not going to stop growing until Toppers achieves world domination," said Toppers director of franchise development Mark Cairns in a statement. "Our agreement with Shane and the team at Nordic Venture Partners is a great step in securing our foothold as the best pizza brand in the country, and will help achieve our goal of expanding outward from Wisconsin into new markets that are hungry for a pizza brand that won't settle."

Sioux Falls native Quail has experience in restaurant concepts from fast casual to fine dining. He most recently served at Panera Bread, where he helped manage multiple units and led the brand to open five locations in 11 months in the area.

Army veteran Hatch, a private equity investor for more than 15 years with two Dairy Queens in his portfolio, became interested in Toppers after his daughter, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told him Toppers captured the attention of the millennial generation.