| 词条 | Toppers Pizza (American restaurant) |
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| name = Toppers Pizza | logo = File:Toppers Pizza logo.png | logo_caption = The Toppers Pizza logo | image = Toppers Pizza counter.jpg | image_caption = Toppers Pizza in Falcon Heights, Minnesota | type = Franchise | foundation = Champaign, Illinois, United States (1991) | location = Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States | key_people = Scott Gittrich, Founder and CEO David Biederman, Executive Vice President Kendall Richmond, CFO Scott Iversen, VP Marketing Adam Oldenburg, VP Operations Tony Ellis, VP IT Donette Beattie, VP Supply Chain | num_employees = | industry = Quick Service Restaurant | products = Pizza | revenue = | parent = | homepage = www.toppers.com }}Toppers Pizza is a chain of pizzerias in the United States. The chain was founded by Scott Gittrich in 1991 in Champaign, Illinois, but the original location closed in the mid-1990s. The first Toppers Pizza location in Wisconsin opened in Whitewater in 1993. The company is headquartered in Whitewater, Wisconsin.[1] The first official franchise store opened in Eau Claire, WI in 1997.[1] OverviewThere are Toppers Pizza franchises throughout the Midwestern United States. The chain includes both company-owned locations and franchise stores. It has more than 85 locations in the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Nebraska, Michigan, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.[2] The chain's target market is college students and other customers between 18 and 34 years old.[4][3][4] As part of its targeting of college students, most of the chain's stores remain open until 3:00 a.m. or later to accommodate late-night business.[4][8] Toppers founder Scott Gittrich entered the pizza business in 1984 when he was a college student at the University of Illinois and took a job as a Domino's Pizza delivery driver. He rose through the company, serving as director of operations for a group of 22 franchise locations in Charlotte, North Carolina, when he left in 1991 to start his own pizza business.[5] Originally called "Topper's Pizza", the chain removed the apostrophe from its name as part of its marketing strategy to give it a more informal image.[6] ReceptionIn 2013, the business was named as one of Nation's Restaurant News{{'}} 50 Breakout Chains for 2013, was ranked by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the top 500 franchises in the United States and was ranked at #58 of the top 100 pizza companies by Pizza Today.[7][8] See also
References1. ^{{Cite web|url = https://www.toppers.com/About/newest-toppers-pizza-location-opens-in-the-twin-cities|title = Toppers Timeline|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }} 2. ^Toppers Pizza - Locations, website accessed December 22, 2017 3. ^Fernie Tiflis, Toppers Pizza: Editor’s Choice 2008 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106043449/http://www.fooddrink-magazine.com/content/view/667/31/ |date=2009-01-06 }} Food and Drink, 01 December 2008 4. ^1 2 Lynne Miller, Ones to Watch: Toppers Pizza, QSR Magazine, July 2008 5. ^1 Jane Burns, Executive Q&A: Toppers Pizza founder Scott Gittrich on pie appeal, Wisconsin State Journal, February 27, 2010 6. ^1 Stuart Elliott, [https://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget=2006/09/11/business/media/11adco_adcolumn.html Hat’s Off to Pizza Makeover], New York Times, September 11, 2006 7. ^{{cite web | title=Toppers Pizza | website=Log Cabin Democrat | date=August 29, 2013 | url=http://thecabin.net/news/local/2013-08-29/college-pizza-chain-gives-free-food-first-50-customers | access-date=December 5, 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web | last=Leute | first=Jim | title=Toppers Pizza to open Janesville store | website=GazetteXtra | date=February 6, 2014 | url=http://www.gazettextra.com/article/20140206/ARTICLES/140209832 | access-date=December 5, 2017}} External links
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