Apache Pizza is a chain of

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restaurants in

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. Founded in 1996 by Robert Pendleton and his wife Emily Gore Grimes, Apache is the trading name of The Good Food Company. As of 2022, there are over 160 stores across the Republic of Ireland and 20 stores in Northern Ireland. Apache is Ireland's largest pizza chain. Its Managing Director is Martin Lyons.

Expansion

In 2015, Apache signed an agreement with Marvin.ie, an online fast food order service similar to

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. As of 2012, the company employs over 800 people and manufactures more than 160,000 pizza dough balls per month. In March 2018, Spanish restaurant chain

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announced a joint venture with Irish

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franchise arm

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to purchase a majority share of the company.

Awards

In 2014,

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listed Apache as one of the best pizza chains in the world. Just Eat named Apache as Ireland's best

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in 2015.

References

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