In mid-November, Cicis will return to Summerville, South Carolina with its newest restaurant in the Trolley Square plaza at 1525 Old Trolley Rd in Summerville. It is the twelfth Cicis in the Palmetto State and the 448th system-wide. The buffet-style restaurant will feature an updated interior design, lifestyle wall graphics and menu boards and will seat 120 guests. Cicis is known for its unlimited pizza, pasta, salad, soup and dessert buffet. Previous operating under the Cici’s Pizza banner, in early November, the chain adopted the new Cicis banner and logo with an added ‘Beyond Pizza’ motto. A new restaurant prototype is also in the works with the first new look to open in the second quarter of 2016.
CATEGORY: Family Buffet
Chain Name: Cicis, Beyond Pizza
Company Name: CiCi Enterprises LP
Street Address: 1080 West Bethel Rd., Coppell, Texas 75019
Tel: 972/745-4200 Fax:
Email: Website: www.cicispizza.com
Menu Specialty: Wide variety of pizza, pasta, salad, soup and dessert buffet.
Introduced: Plano, Texas in 1985. Franchising since 1988
No. of Locations: About 500 restaurants in 32 states
Areas of Operation: National, International in 2014. Company plans to double the number of restaurants in ten years.
Types of Location: Freestanding, Open Center
BusinessType (corp., franchise, jv): Franchise
Size Req’d: 3600 to 4000 sq.ft.
Special Requirements (patio, drive-thru, etc):
Contact Name: Darin Harris – CEO
Steven Jones – COO
Jim Lebs – CFO
Nancy Hampton – Chief Marketing Officer
Michael Iglesias – Director Franchise Development (972/745-9313miglesias@cicispizza.com)
Brian Cassidy – Vice President, Operations
Brett Willis – Vice President, Franchise & Corporate Development
Mark Kiefer – Vice President, Construction
REAL ESTATE REPRESENTATIVES: Northeast – Jennifer Watson (312/224-3119 jwatson@ngkf.com) Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, 500 W. Monroe, Suite 2900, Chicago, Illinois 60661
FRANCHISE REPRESENTATIVES:
PARENT COMPANY: CiCi Enterprises LP, Coppell, Texas
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