One of the fastest growing pizza chains of the US plans to open 460 new locations

The pizza chipotle faced with pandemic challenges, but now they are more learned than ever.


Pizza has been one of the most appreciated foods for ordering for decades. Last yearpeak In the take-away pandemic and delivery proves that it is not about to change times soon and a revolutionary pizza chain gives its stake in the ground to offer the love of consumers of good pizza, but in A restaurant concept that comes with a modern touch. Here they then enter.

Blaze Pizza is a California-based pizza chain from South California that opened in 2011 with the idea of ​​becoming the pizza chipotle: guests can call their pizza trim in their liability, and pizzas are then cooked in a real fire oven and served in minutes. . It is logical that customers love the personalized sensation that comes from the wide variety - a choice of five sauces, eight cheeses and more than two dozen seals possible, including vegan chorizo, ghost pepper chicken pellets, more meats Classics like bacon and mounted meatballs and vegetables like artichokes, spinach and even roasted garlic.

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The CFO of Blaze Pizza, Brad Reynolds, saysQSR This week, while the brand currently has 340 sites in 40 states and six countries, they seek more than the size of their size by 2025. Blaze restaurants currently occupy California, Texas, Florida, Las Vegas, Chicago, Philly, New York, Washington, DC and other American areas - with places also in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc.

Now, the company, in collaboration with two franchisees, announced its plans to offer 16 more restaurants in Tennessee, Florida and the region of Austin, Texas, with their eyes on Alabama, Mississippi and Florida Panhandle during the Four years. After that, reports suggest that they will become aggressive to take even wider brand, with the goal of reaching 800 locations by 2025.

It is even though 80% of Blaze Pizza's activities were at the restaurant in front of the pandemic and, due to restrictions without cavid during COVID, their annual revenues dropped by 22% between 2019 and 2020.

Nevertheless, Reynolds says that among the company and their franchisees, there is a strong spirit of determination. "The excitement is there. The passion is there," Reynolds said. "Our brand is really well loved, not just the pizza market, but a fast opportunity, in general. We have a very good concept and great product and people like this, as well as our franchisees.

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