Name: Sbarro
Type of Food: Pizza and Pasta
Interesting Fact: Sbarro is located in more than 65 airports worldwide from Holland to New Zealand.
History: In 1956, Gennaro, Carmela, and their sons Mario, Joseph and Anthony, left Italy and settled in New York City. The family opened their first Salumeria (Italian grocery store) in Brooklyn. The success of the Sbarro Salumeria led to the opening of more locations throughout the New York City area. In 1967, Sbarro opened its first mall-based restaurant in Brooklyn’s Kings Plaza Shopping Center, marking the birth of the modern Sbarro concept: delicious, fresh and authentic Italian food in an open kitchen that allowed for fast self-service. Currently Sbarro is the largest mall-based Italian restaurant chain in the world, with some 1,000 locations across more than 30 countries. The company has grown to include mall locations also restaurants in airports, hospitals, travel plazas, universities, rest stops, train stations and casinos.
Website: www.sbarro.com
View the menu: here
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Name: Pizza Hut
Type of Food: Pizza
Interesting Fact: The true reason it was called ‘Pizza Hut’ is because when Dan and Frank Carney got the sign to put in front of their first restaurant in ‘Wichita, Kansas’ there was only enough room for a three letter word after Pizza.
History: Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 by two brothers, Dan and Frank Carney, in Wichita, Kansas. A family friend gave them the idea of opening a pizza parlor, and while the concept was relatively new at the time, the brothers quickly saw the potential of this new enterprise. Borrowing $600 from their mother, they purchased second-hand equipment and rented a small building on a busy intersection in Wichita, Kansas. The result of their efforts was the first Pizza Hut and the foundation for what would become the largest and most successful pizza restaurant in the world. Today Pizza Hut chain has nearly 34,000 restaurants, delivery-carry out units, and kiosks in 100 countries.
Website: www.pizzahut.com
View the menu: here
Find your local Pizza Hut: in the USA here in Canada here
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Name: Papa John’s Pizza
Type of Food: Pizza
Interesting Fact: Papa John’s Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino’s Pizza.
History: In 1983, “Papa” John Schnatter delivered his last campus pizza, picked up his business degree from Ball State University, and went back to Jeffersonville, Indiana. There, at age 22, he knocked down the broom closet in his father’s tavern (Mick’s Lounge), sold his prized 1972 Z28 Camaro, purchased $1,600 worth of used restaurant equipment, and began delivering pizzas out of the back of the bar. In 1985, the first Papa John’s restaurant was opened. Today, there are more than 3,300 Papa John’s stores worldwide including over 2,600 in the U.S., and more than 500 worldwide in over 30 different countries.
Website: www.papajohns.com
View the menu: here
Find your local Papa John’s Pizza in the USA here and in Canada here
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Name: Papa Gino’s Pizzeria
Type of Food: Pizza, submarine sandwiches, pasta
Interesting Fact: Papa Gino’s Pizzeria is the official pizza of the New England Patriots and the Boston Red Sox.
History: Papa Gino’s began in 1961 as a single East Boston pizza shop. When the family of Papa Gino’s founder, Michael Valerio, sailed from Italy to Boston in 1936, they brought with them authentic Italian family recipes handed down through generations. These were the recipes Michael and his wife, Helen, used when they opened their first pizzeria, Piece O’ Pizza in 1961
In 1968, the owners, Helen and Michael Valerio, changed the name to “Papa Gino’s” and began expanding the business to multiple locations. Papa Gino’s has been established as the leader of New England pizza chains.There are over 200 Papa Gino’s locations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
Website: www.papaginos.com
View the menu: here
Find your local Papa Gino’s Pizzeria here
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Name: Mike’s Restaurant
Type of Food: Pizza, Pasta and Hot Submarines
Interesting Fact: There are more than 3,000 employees on the MIKES® team, and sales total more than $127 million.
History: Mike’s Restaurant was originally founded in 1967, in Montreal, as a sandwich shop by the Marano Brothers. The menu has grown to include pizzas, pastas, steaks, salmon, brochettes and more. There are over 100 Mikes in four Canadian provinces: Quebec, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick. Since 2000 it has been owned by Imvescor Inc (previously Pizza Delight). From its humble beginnings in Shediac, New Brunswick four decades ago, the company has solidly established itself in the restaurant industry and today ranks as a regional leader, with a growing presence across the country in the moderate/casual family dining segment. Imvescor Inc. also operates the Pizza Delight, Scores, and Bâton Rouge brands.
Website: www.mikes.ca
View the menu here
Find your local Mike’s Restaurant here
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