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Pizza Delight is a Canadian pizza restaurant franchise. It was founded in 1968 in
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by Léandre Bourque and Allard Robichaud and then later purchased by Bernard Imbeault and two of his friends. The chain's head offices are now located in
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. The restaurant primarily serves pizza, pasta and salad dishes. Today, it has over 70 restaurants, and operates in
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with almost half of their locations in New-Brunswick.


Imvescor

In 2000, Pizza Delight purchased Mikes, a prominent chain in
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, for $15 million. Further acquisitions followed; the company acquired Scores in 2005, and
Baton Rouge Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-sma ...
in 2006. In 2006, it changed its name to Imvescor, to reflect its larger stable of restaurants. At its peak, the company owned and operated over 350 restaurants across Canada under four different banners. These included: * 95 Pizza Delights * 94 Mikes Restaurants * 28 Bâton Rouge Restaurants * 40 Scores Restaurants In December 2017,
MTY Food Group MTY Food Group is a Canadian franchisor and operator of numerous casual dining, fast casual, and quick service restaurants operating under more than 70 brand names, some of them through wholly owned subsidiaries. Headquartered in the Montreal bor ...
acquired Imvescor (including Pizza Delight) for $248 million.


See also

*
List of Canadian restaurant chains Although many of the largest restaurant chains in Canada are US-based (McDonald's and Yum Brands among others), some Canadian-based (owned and operated from Canada) restaurant chains are growing and have expanded into other markets, especially ...


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* Pizza chains of Canada 1968 establishments in New Brunswick Restaurants established in 1968 Companies based in Moncton Food and drink in New Brunswick Restaurants in New Brunswick Restaurant chains in Canada {{Canada-restaurant-stub