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List Of Pizza Chains
This list of pizza chains includes notable pizzerias and pizza chains. Pizza is a dish of Neapolitan origin and cuisine, made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is often covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based sauce and mozzarella cheese. Other toppings are added according to region, culture, or personal preference. A restaurant or takeout where pizzas are made and sold as main food is called a ''pizzeria'' () or simply “pizza parlor” in English. The term ''pizza pie'' is a (mainly American) dialectal, and ''pie'' is used for simplicity in some contexts, such as among pizzeria staff. International chains US based see also article: List of pizza chains of the United States * California Pizza Kitchen * Chuck E. Cheese * Domino's Pizza * Little Caesars * Papa John's Pizza * Pizza Hut * Pizza Inn * Sbarro * Shakey's Pizza * Uno Pizzeria & Grill Canada, Europe and Asia * Boston Pizza * Dodo Pizza * Figaro's Pizza * Sarpino's Pizzeria * Telepizza * The Pizza C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizza
Pizza (, ) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, vegetables, meat, ham, etc.), which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. A small pizza is sometimes called a pizzetta. A person who makes pizza is known as a pizzaiolo. In Italy, pizza served in a restaurant is presented unsliced, and is eaten with the use of a knife and fork. In casual settings, however, it is cut into wedges to be eaten while held in the hand. The term ''pizza'' was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the Southern Italian town of Gaeta in Lazio, on the border with Campania. Modern pizza was invented in Naples, and the dish and its variants have since become popular in many countries. It has become one of the most popular foods in the world and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizza Inn
Pizza Inn is a Dallas-based restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pan pizza, pasta, and side dishes. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas. At its peak, Pizza Inn had over 500 locations in 20 states. As of June 28, 2020, Pizza Inn had 252 stores within the United States, located primarily in towns within the Southern United States, and 38 stores internationally. History In 1958, two Texas brothers, F.J. (Joe) and R. L. Spillman, opened the first Pizza Inn in Dallas. In the mid-1980s, the restaurant chain had a commercial deal with the Von Erich family, with Kerry Von Erich, Kevin Von Erich, and Mike Von Erich appearing in a series of televised commercials In June 2011, Pizza Inn launched the fast casual restaurant Pie Five Pizza, which specializes in customizable pizzas that are made within five minutes, in Fort Worth, Texas. They had five locations within the Fort Worth area by the end of the year. As of Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vapiano
Vapiano SE is a German restaurant franchise company headquartered in Cologne. The chain's restaurants offer Italian food adhering to the fast-casual principle. Vapiano was established in 2002 in Hamburg.Vapiano AG In: ''Unternehmensregister''. Bundesanzeiger Verlag. Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 85489. Retrieved June 8, 2016. Its largest shareholder since 2011 is the , . Roughly one-third of the restaurants are operated by the company itself, but the majority are run as franchise or as |
Pizza Pizza
Pizza Pizza Ltd. is a franchised Canadian pizza quick-service restaurant with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. Its restaurants are mainly in the province of Ontario while others are located in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and western Canada. Franchises in western Canada are mostly run through Alberta-based subsidiary Pizza 73. It has over 500 locations, including over 150 non-traditional locations. History The chain was founded by Michael Overs, who opened the first location on December 31, 1967, at the corner of Wellesley and Parliament Streets in Toronto. He owned the chain until his death in 2010. It expanded throughout the Toronto area in the 1970s, and throughout the rest of Ontario throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The chain opened its first locations in Quebec in the mid-1980s, but withdrew after a few years. It returned to the province, in Gatineau, in March 2007. Locations were opened in the Montreal area in late 2007 in the boroughs of Notre-Dame-de-Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizza Corner
Pizza Corner was an international franchise of pizzeria chains that offered a wide range of pizzas, pastas and side dishes from Buffalo wing, chicken wings to salads. Pizza Corner operated as both standalone restaurants or combined with other Global Franchise Architects brands such as Coffee World or The Cream & Fudge Factory, Cream & Fudge. Its service formats included: large dine-in restaurants, delivery outlets, express dine-ins, and express kiosks.About Us Pizza Corner. Retrieved 2012-10-4. Pizza Corner was a brand of Global Franchise Architects (GFA), a Geneva, Switzerland-based company that builds, operates, and franchises a specialty food service brands. All Pizza Corner restaurants and kiosks were designed by ItoramaItorama< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PizzaExpress
PizzaExpress is a British multinational restaurant group, owned by a group of bondholders. It has over 470 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot. In July 2020, the business was taken over by its bondholders under a debt-for-equity swap with previous owner Hony Capital. In November 2020, Hony Capital left the business and the group restructure was completed, helping to cut the casual dining chain's debt by more than £400 million. History Founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot, PizzaExpress opened its first restaurant in London's Wardour Street. Inspired by a trip to Italy, Boizot brought back to London a pizza oven from Naples and a chef from Sicily. It was announced in 2020 that the Wardour Street branch would shut, and the site has since closed. In 1969, jazz performances began at its Dean St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pizza Company
The Pizza Company ( th, เดอะ พิซซ่า คอมปะนี) is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Bangkok, Thailand. With focus on pizza and Italian-American cuisine, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of ''Minor International'' (merged with The Minor Food Group). Its branches are spread all across Asia. History Established in 1980, the company had operated Tricon Global Restaurants’ franchised Pizza Hut brand since its introduction in Thailand, and when their agreement was terminated, The Pizza Company was established as the company's own brand in 2001. In 2004, The Pizza Company began to expand and franchise internationally and today the restaurant has franchises in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Laos, China, Bahrain, Myanmar and Cambodia. There are also multiple locations in Vietnam, especially in Ho Chi Minh City. The Pizza Company is currently the largest pizza fast food restaurant chain in Thailand. International o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telepizza
Telepizza () is a Spanish multinational pizza restaurant chain. As of 2017 it is the largest pizza chain not originating in North America by number of stores. Telepizza was founded as "Pizza Phone" in 1987 by Leopoldo Fernández Pujals, a Cuban-born American businessman, in Madrid's El Pilar neighbourhood. By 1995 it had 200 locations in Spain with a 52% market share. The company had factories in the Spanish cities of Guadalajara, Barcelona, Móstoles, and Alcobendas, but those were later sold and all production was moved to a factory in Daganzo de Arriba, Madrid. The pizza base is distributed from the factories to the different stores. As of 2010, Telepizza has 1025 outlets worldwide; thereof 603 stores in Spain and 422 in markets such as Portugal, the United Kingdom, Peru, Chile, Poland, Russia, Central America, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. In 2010, Telepizza bought the Colombian chain Jeno's Pizza.Loeda, Roberto C. (1 June 2010)Telepizza entra en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarpino's Pizzeria
Sarpino's Pizzeria is a Canadian fast food restaurant chain specializing in pizza, with international operations headquartered in Singapore and U.S. operations headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, Illinois. History The first Sarpino's pizza delivery store was opened by Gerry Koutougos in 2001 in Victoria, British Columbia. The name has its origins in a vacation that founder Gerry Koutougos took to Italy in 1999, where he visited a restaurant that was operated by a woman named Sarpina. Sarpino's expanded to Singapore in 2002 and to the United States in January 2003 with the opening of a Phoenix, Arizona location. Within a year after opening the first U.S. location, the chain had close to 20 American stores. During that first year, David Chatkin served as the original franchisee for two stores in the Chicago area and partnered with Dmitry Shapiro, a software consultant that previously served as a business analyst with Sears and Kraft Foods. Shapiro found that Chatkin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figaro's Pizza
Figaro's Pizza is an American multinational quick service restaurant chain serving Italian cuisine. The company has 37 locations in 4 countries, including Cyprus, the United States and Nigeria. History Figaro's Pizza was founded in Salem, Oregon in 1981 by Corkey Gorley and Al DeBacker. The company is partnered with H.E.L.P. the Charity. In 2006, Figaro's acquired Sargo's Subs. In 2008, Figaro's acquired Schmizza International, and Nick-N-Willy's franchise in 2012. Figaro's spun off Schmizza in 2014 as an independently owned business. In 2019, ''Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...'' listed Figaro's Pizza at number twenty on the magazine's list of the top pizza franchises of the year. References Pizza chains of the United States Companies based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodo Pizza
Dodo Pizza is a worldwide pizza delivery franchise founded in 2011 by Fyodor Ovchinnikov. The corporation was founded in Syktyvkar, Russia. Its headquarters are also in Syktyvkar, as well as in Moscow. As of February 2021, the company has 570 pizzerias in Russia and 111 in 14 other countries (Kazakhstan, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Nigeria, Vietnam, China, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Poland). It's the largest pizza chain in Russia and one of Europe's fastest-growing restaurant chains. Operations Ovchinnikov states that the company views itself as an IT-driven retail company based on the principle of transparency. Dodo Pizza uses a cloud-based system known as Dodo IS that collects and processes operations data, reports real-time business analytics, and helps kitchen and delivery staff to be more efficient by allowing for more informed decision-making. History In 2014, the company ran the largest crowdfunding initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Pizza
Boston Pizza (BP), known as Boston's The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar outside of Canada, is a Canadian multinational restaurant chain that owns and franchises locations in Canada, the United States and Mexico. History Boston Pizza began in Edmonton, Alberta, on August 12, 1964, when four Greek immigrants, Trifon, Gus, Perry, and Ninos Agioritis opened ''Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House''. By 1970, Boston Pizza had 17 locations in Western Canada, 15 of which were franchised. One of the first franchisees was Jim Treliving, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who lived down the street from the original location and was a regular customer. In 1968, he noticed the growing popularity of Boston Pizza and purchased the rights to open a restaurant in Penticton, British Columbia. While in Penticton, he met George Melville, a chartered accountant. He acted as Treliving's business consultant for four years, and, in 1973, became Treliving's business partner. Over 10 years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
