4 | UNO Pizzeria & Grill
with a single restaurant at the corner of
Wabash Avenue and Ohio Street on Chi-
cago’s near north side.
“Seventy years speaks to the heritage
and longevity of our brand,” he says. “In
the restaurant industry today, you need
to evolve in order to stay relevant, and I
believe we have done that. We continue
to evolve today while not forgetting what
got us here, which is the incredibly great
deep-dish pizza. And we invented it in
1943.”
The enthusiasm, while hardly sur-
prising for an executive-level employee,
seems warranted when it comes to the
chain’s imminent future.
FUTURE FOCUSED
The company owns and operates 84 res-
taurants, including the two originals in
Chicago – Uno and Due, which came 12
years later at the corner of Wabash and
Ontario Street. It’s additionally the name-
sake for more than 60 franchise units, in-
cluding facilities in such far-flung locales
as South Korea, Honduras, Mexico, the
