Parry's Pizzeria opens store No. 10

February 11, 2020

Parry's Pizzeria & Taphouse will open its tenth location early next month in The Colony, outside Dallas, in the Grandscape development, a news release…

Vegas-based brand begins franchising

February 7, 2020

Las Vegas-based Above The Crust hopes to expand nationally and this week announced franchising plans to allow it to do that, according to a news release. 

California Pizza Kitchen going to Canada, eh?

February 5, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen, based in Beverly Hills, is taking its wares north of the border to Canada in partnership with longtime Alberta restaurateur, Samira…

Pizza Inn pops up 1st Stillwater, Oklahoma store

February 4, 2020

Pizza Inn has opened a Stillwater, Oklahoma store — the first of six locations of the brand that franchisees Tony Nemer and Sissi Nemer plan to open throughout…

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Fired Pie fires up new concept store

January 31, 2020

Fired Pie is opening a new concept store this morning on West Northern Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, that the brand said is designed for its increasingly…

Blaze enters multi-unit deal in around Chicago

January 31, 2020

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza has partnered with multi-brand operators Elie Damouni, George Damouni, Nadim Burbar and Daniel Burbar to grow the brand around Chicago…

How $100 can buy you a piece of these 2 fast casuals

January 28, 2020

Tasty Equity, a franchisee of Hot Head Burritos and Rapid Fired Pizza, has launched a Regulation A+ stock offering to give fans, friends, guests, investors and…

Your Pie hits a growth spurt

January 28, 2020

Your Pie said it not only opened six stores in the fourth quarter of last year, but as previously reported here, named a CEO and CMO for the Athens…

Artichoke Basille's opens Midtown Manhattan store

January 24, 2020

Artichoke Basille's Pizza has opened in Midtown Manhattan at1410 Broadway on 39th Street. The newest addition to the Artichoke Pizza empire is located just a…

Pizza Inn Express franchisee opens 4th Arkansas store

January 16, 2020

Danville, Arkansas will become the newest home to a Pizza Inn Express on Friday when it debuts its East Eighth Street store there inside a renovated gas…

Kansas City gets a dose of 'Old Chicago'

January 16, 2020

Old Chicago  Pizza & Taproom opened a North Kansas City Wednesday on Diamond Parkway with free pizza for a year given to the first 100 customers yesterday.

Mountain Mike's climbs aboard Morgan Hill, California

January 16, 2020

Mountain Mike's is continuing expansion in the West with its latest opening in Morgan Hill, California, south of San Jose. The new Condit Shopping Center store…

Tasty Hut acquires 117 Pizza Huts

January 15, 2020

Rage Inc. sold 117 Pizza Hut locations in seven mostly southeastern states to Tasty Brands, a subsidiary of Tasty Hut LLC, according to a news release from…

Hungry Howie's opens midwestern Michigan store

January 14, 2020

Hungry Howie's Pizza will open the doors to its Big Rapids, Michigan store tomorrow, with a special $6.99 large one-topping pizza offering and the donation of…

Stoner's Pizza's Atlanta debut part of Southeastern US push

January 9, 2020

QSR pizza brand, Stoner's Pizza Joint, has opened its first Atlanta location and newest franchisee-owned store at 120 Piedmont Ave. NE, under Chunara Food…

Largest Pieology franchisee takes on 21 corporate locations

January 2, 2020

Pieology Pizzeria has refranchised 21 corporate-owned restaurants to one of its largest franchisees, Akash Management, Llc. CEO Amir Siddiqi, who already is a…

Blaze Pizza opens 10th North Carolina location

December 30, 2019

Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza is making its Jacksonville, North Carolina, debut Thursday at 3040 Western Blvd., and will celebrate Friday by giving customers who…

2019's top pizza reads: century-old pizzeria restoration to futuristic pie prep

by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group

The final year of the 2010s had Pizza Marketplace readers looking back nearly a century to learn about restoring historic buildings for pizzerias, as well as…

Artichoke Basille's to hit Times Square

December 18, 2019

Artichoke Basille's Pizza is hitting the square, as in Time Square, when it opens just a few blocks away from the Big Apple's big meeting spot later this month…