Since its founding more than 40 years ago, California -based “mountain-sized pizza” chain Mountain Mike’s Pizza has been limited to the Western states, even as it approaches a whopping 300 total locations. As the brand continues to grow, it’s finally preparing to make its debut on the East Coast, now that a 10-unit deal has been signed to bring locations to the Orlando , Tampa , and Sarasota markets.
Behind the move are multi-brand operators Sean Morrison , CEO of BizBox Restaurant Group , and Ned Algeo , founder of Multipli Capital . The duo have already built experience bringing 3Natives to the Orlando market.
“I was seeing a lot of great real estate available that was too big for the 3Natives concept, and I thought we should look into something that could occupy these other spaces,” Sean Morrison told What Now on Saturday. After BizBox and Algeo’s Multipli joined forces, he said, the pair of entrepreneurs started discussing pizza concepts. “I grew up in Southern California, and we both love Mountain Mike’s Pizza; it was our favorite brand, so the light bulb went on. We asked, and they said they had ambitions to be in the southeast.”