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and Kolkata ( India).Įntrepreneur magazine ranked it 174th in 2003 and 252nd in 2006 in the magazine's list of the top 500 franchises. Franchises are also located in Honduras, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. However, despite an aggressive push into the Southern and Western markets in the 1990s, those gains were greatly reduced as many locations closed. The East Coast/Midwest region continues to see growth. Some regions have been more favorable to Uno than others.

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states plus one in the District of Columbia. Īs of July 2017 the company has 102 Uno Pizzeria & Grill restaurants located in 21 U.S. As of July 2017, Massachusetts, with 23, had the most Uno restaurants. The restaurant chain does not have a major presence in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, with only the original Uno, Due, and Su Casa restaurants in River North. CEO Aaron Spencer promised not to tamper with pizza at the original locations. After Ike Sewell's death in 1990, his widow Florence sold the original properties (Uno, Due, and Su Casa) to the Boston-based corporation. Beginning with four restaurants in Massachusetts, the chain rapidly expanded over the next decade. Ike Sewell first franchised the name and concept of the restaurant to the Uno Restaurant Holdings Corporation in 1978 in the Boston area. The interior of the Pizzeria Uno in Harmon Meadow Plaza in Secaucus, New Jersey in 2007. Su Casa is located adjacent to Pizzeria Due. This was followed by the launch of Su Casa, an upscale Mexican restaurant, in 1965. Pizzeria Due opened one block north of the original Pizzeria Uno location in 1955 ( Uno and Due are Italian for one and two).

Sewell opened two additional restaurants in response to Pizzeria Uno's popularity. Pizzeria Uno claims to have originated the deep dish pizza. While Sewell and Riccardo are known as the owners of the original restaurant, a 1956 article from the Chicago Daily News asserts that the original deep-dish pizza recipe was created by chef Rudy Malnati Sr., the father of Lou Malnati. Sewell originally intended to open a Mexican restaurant because 'there wasn't a really decent Mexican restaurant in Chicago then.' Ric Riccardo, in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

The first Uno's was established in 1943 by former University of Texas football star Ike Sewell and his friend, former World War II G.I.

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