The company's initial stated intention at the time of the bankruptcy filing was to convert $142 million of Senior Secured Notes due 2011 into the new equity of the company after emergence from Chapter 11. closed 16 of its restaurants and filed for Chapter 11 protection on January 20, 2010. The expanded menu and format changes were not made at the company's original Chicago locations (Pizzeria Uno and Pizzeria Due). Uno's drink list features a dozen wines and a number of specialty drinks, including frozen, mixed and nonalcoholic options. In the tradition of Chicago's speakeasies, more attention is paid to the bar. The menu, updated again in 2005, still includes several of the restaurant's traditional specialties, particularly its deep dish pizza. In 1997, Pizzeria Uno changed its name to Pizzeria Uno, Chicago Bar & Grill it later simplified the name to Uno Chicago Grill. New locations were larger and featured a "Chicago warehouse" look. In 1996, the franchise's beverage list was expanded, and by 1999 so was the portion size, reflecting a trend seen in the industry where customers are buying fewer but larger drinks. Uno's kitchens were updated, adding sauté stations, grills, and fryers, and the company invested heavily in training. Starting in 1994, Uno's broadened its menu to encompass other dishes. This picture shows the karaoke stage in the foreground. The location at 3030 West Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim, California in 2004. Uno-branded pizzas, both thin-crust and deep-dish, are available in both fresh and frozen forms in many US supermarkets. In addition to the traditional Uno restaurants, Uno offers a limited menu (mostly its pizzas) at stadiums, service plazas, and airports. In November 2009, the company announced that after a successful pilot of Uno Express, which offers fast food, it will open at least 160 new Uno Express locations throughout 2010 into 2011. 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. Ike Sewell opened the first Pizzeria Uno in 1943. Uno Pizzeria and Grill is best known for its Chicago-style deep dish pizza. Uno Pizzeria & Grill (formerly Pizzeria Uno and Uno Chicago Grill), or more informally as Unos, is a United States-origin franchised pizzeria restaurant chain under the parent company Uno Restaurant Holdings Corporation. Uno Restaurant, Revere, Massachusetts in 2012 - night view
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