Which restaurant pizza chain has been around longer, LaRosa's Pizzeria or Mr. Jim's Pizza?
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LaRosa's Pizzeria LaRosa's Pizzeria is a chain of pizzerias serving neighborhoods throughout the Cincinnati, Greater Dayton, central Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana and central Tennessee areas. It was founded in 1954 by Donald "Buddy" LaRosa, along with partners Richard "Muzzie" Minella, Mike Soldano and Frank "Head" Serraino. Originally called Papa Gino's, LaRosa later bought out his partners, and changed the name to LaRosa's.
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Mr. Jim's Pizza MrJims.Pizza is a U.S. chain of pizza restaurants based in Farmers Branch, Texas. Jim Johnson opened the first restaurant in Detroit, Michigan in 1975. There are currently 42 locations in Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada and Wyoming, with the majority located in northern Texas. MrJims.Pizza is widely known for their crust. Their hand stretched pizza dough is made fresh in the store daily from flour containing 100% spring wheat. Every single MrJims.Pizza franchise has online ordering capabilities. In 2006, MrJims.Pizza introduced a unique new item, Nacho Stix, to their menu. It quickly became one of their bestsellers, and lead to a resurgence in the popularity of MrJims.
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East Side Mario's East Side Mario's is a Canadian chain of casual dining restaurants, managed by its parent holding company Prime Restaurants. The restaurant specializes in Italian-American cuisine. Individual locations aim to recreate the historic ambience found at the corner of Canal Street and Mulberry Street in Lower Manhattan. The brand is marketed as "A taste of little Italy". It is best recognized by its old logo featuring the Statue of Liberty holding a large tomato instead of a torch, as well as the jingle containing the catch phrase "Hey, budda boom budda bing".
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Spangles (restaurant) Spangles is a family-owned fast food chain based in Wichita, Kansas. It serves 1/3-pound burgers, flatbread pita wraps, french fries, onion rings, breakfast sandwiches, lactose-free milkshakes, and an array of other soft-serve desserts. Breakfast specialties include sourdough sandwiches, Pitas and Breakfast Bowls. Lunch specialties include the 1/3-pound Gourmet Supreme burger, 1/3-pound Western Burger, 1/3 pound Mushroom Swiss Burger, Sourdough Bacon Swiss, Sourdough Turkey bacon Ranch Sandwich and Grilled Chicken on Pita. Some of the promotional food items that Spangles have served are a Guacamole Bacon Swiss Burger, an Asian Chicken Pita, a Seafood Krab Pita (a Lenten offering), a Parmesan chicken pita, and a Frito Chili Cheese Bowl. The chain is known for its bizarre, kitschy television commercials. Spangles offers its full breakfast menu until 11:00 a.m. and offers six popular breakfast items the rest of the day. Unlike other fast food restaurants, Spangles main menu is offered during breakfast hours.
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Sam Panopoulos Sotirios "Sam" Panopoulos (Greek: Σωτήριος Πανοπούλος ; 20 August 1934 – 8 June 2017) was a Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman, credited as the inventor of Hawaiian pizza.
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Ray Pizzi Raymond Michael Pizzi, nicknamed "Pizza Man" (born January 19, 1943, Everett, Massachusetts) is an American jazz saxophonist, bassoonist, and flautist.
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The Original Italian Pie The Original Italian Pie is a chain of informal Italian-American restaurants. It was founded in 1992 by Musa Ulusan and his wife Fatima. Their first restaurant was located on Bienville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The menu consists of pizzas, salads, sandwiches and calzones.
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Mother's Pizza Mother's Pizza Parlour and Spaghetti House, or simply Mother's Pizza, is a restaurant revival of a major 1970s and 1980s chain of the same name, which grew to 120 locations in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
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Jim Oberweis James D. "Jim" Oberweis (born June 10, 1946) is an American businessman, investment manager and politician from the state of Illinois. The owner of Oberweis Dairy, in North Aurora near Chicago, he is currently a member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 25th district since January 2013.
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John's Incredible Pizza Company John’s Incredible Pizza Company is an American all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant and entertainment business founded by John Parlet in 1997. The company has 11 locations on the United States West Coast. Its corporate office is located in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.
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The Bywater (restaurant) The Bywater is a casual, New Orleans-inspired restaurant located in Los Gatos, California. The restaurant was founded in 2016 by chef David Kinch, the owner and chef of Michelin 3-star-rated Manresa, also located in Los Gatos. The name of the restaurant is a reference to the New Orleans neighborhood of the same name.
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Mark's Pizzeria Mark's Pizzeria is a franchise with 50 pizza restaurants throughout Upstate New York. It was founded in 1982 by Mark Crane.
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Garduño's Garduño's is a Mexican and New Mexican cuisine restaurant chain from the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They have locations in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, and the Las Vegas Valley.
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Kessel Food Markets Kessel Food Markets was an American supermarket chain based in Michigan. It began in 1981 when Owosso, Michigan native Al Kessel, a former executive vice president of Hamady Brothers supermarkets, purchased Kroger locations in Corunna and Saginaw. Kroger closed these stores due to Michigan's poor economy at the time, and failure to reach union agreements. After Kroger closed all five of its Flint locations in 1982 for the same reasons, Kessel purchased them as well, followed by 13 Hamady stores after that chain filed for bankruptcy in 1991. At its peak, Kessel Food Markets comprised 24 stores. Kessel filmed his own television commercials for the chain, in which he would throw items into a grocery cart and state, "Save at Kessel this week. Why? Because we're with you."
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Jim Catania Jim Catania (born January 5, 1954), commonly known as Mr. Jim, replaced drummer Manny Martínez in The Misfits in the fall of 1977 and remained in the band until November 1978. Catania had been in an earlier band called Koodot And Boojang with Glenn Danzig. Mr. Jim is featured on the same songs as Franché Coma. Jim left the band soon after Franché did and returned to his other band Continental Crawler. He later played for The Adults and Aces and Eights. Both Jim and Manny graduated from Lodi High School in 1971. After leaving Lodi, Jim moved to Hawthorne with his wife. Mr. Jim and his wife later moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. He opened his own music and DVD store called Mr. Jim's House of Video in Belleville, NJ in December 2008.
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Papa's Tomato Pies Papa's Tomato Pies is a historic pizzeria selling tomato pies in New Jersey. It was founded by Giuseppe "Joe" Papa in 1912 on South Clinton Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey. Papa's is the oldest family owned and longest continuously operating pizzeria in the United States. Papa's is the second oldest pizzeria in the United States after Lombardi's Pizza, however Lombardi's closed for a decade from 1984 to 1994 and was reopened under new management.
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Cicis Cicis (formerly named CiCi's Pizza) is an American buffet restaurant chain based in Coppell, Texas, specializing in pizza. There are approximately 500 franchised and corporately owned restaurants in 35 states. In November 2015, the company began a new marketing campaign which included the renaming of the company to Cicis, along with the addition of a new logo and redesigned website. The campaign is aimed at proving that Cicis has more to offer than just pizza.
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Home Run Inn Home Run Inn is a restaurant chain known for their Chicago-style pizza as well as frozen pizzas. Home Run Inn is headquartered in Woodridge, Illinois of the United States.
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Peppes Pizza Peppes Pizza is a Norwegian pizza chain that serves American style and Italian style pizza. Peppes is the largest pizza chain in Scandinavia. The restaurant was founded by two Americans, Louis Jordan and his wife Anne from Hartford, Connecticut. The restaurant chain is part of Umoe Catering As which consists of restaurants such as Burger King, TGI Fridays, La Baguette and Cafe Opus. Peppes Pizza is one of the first restaurants that brought foreign food to Norway. 9 million pizzas are served by Peppes each year with deliveries in 11 cities in Norway. Their menu was first put online in March 1995. The servings have been described as enough for two people and that the pizza chain is "a cut above the rest".
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Santarpio's Pizza Santarpio's Pizza is a well-known restaurant in the neighborhood of East Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was originally established in 1903 as a bakery. Frank Santarpio began selling pizza there three decades later. A landmark to locals and a destination for visitors, the eatery is primarily known for its New York-style pizza, which it has served at its Chelsea Street location since 1933. One "Boston Globe" reporter said of the establishment that "[t]he average New Englander's only knowledge of East Boston is the sign for Santarpio's Pizza that can be seen from the highway on the way to the airport."
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Pizza Haven Pizza Haven is the name of two unrelated, now defunct fast food chain restaurants:
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Papa Murphy's Papa Murphy's, a business based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, is a take-and-bake pizza company. It began in 1995 as the merger of two take-and-bake pizza companies: Papa Aldo's Pizza (founded in 1981) and Murphy's Pizza (founded in 1981). The company and its franchisees operate more than 1,300 outlets in the United States and Canada. Papa Murphy's is the fifth-largest pizza chain in the United States.