Chain: Toppers Pizza

Toppers Boosts System-Wide Sales by 40% in Q1

Despite the crowded pizza category, Toppers Pizza is taking its share of the more than $40 billion pie. System-wide sales increased by more than 40 percent for both company-owned and franchised units in the first quarter of 2013, and same-store sales for company units were up 13.59 percent in the same period. Franchise units saw […]

Franchisee: Military Vets a Wise Partner for Franchisors

With Memorial Day around the corner and the nation’s attention turned to the men and women who have served the country, one franchisee says military veterans like himself should be top of mind for franchisors as potential franchisees. Derek Henze, a Minneapolis-based Toppers Pizza franchisee who served in Iraq, says his eight years of experience […]

Toppers Lays Out Plans for Accelerated Growth

Toppers Pizza announced that, as a means to accelerate growth, the company will start focusing on employing multiunit franchisees with diverse portfolios instead of single-unit operators. The 28-unit, Whitewater, Wisconsin–based brand is aiming to have 100 units open and operating by 2013, says director of marketing Scott Iversen. “We think it’s a nice, attractive investment […]

Who Needs a $3M TV Spot When You Have Social Media?

While some companies will be shelling out as much as $3 million for a 30-second TV spot during Sunday’s Super Bowl, some quick-serve chains plan to ramp up their marketing efforts without even hardly opening their wallets. Toppers Pizza and Philly Pretzel Factory are two concepts that will leverage social media for their marketing efforts […]