December 2013
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the fact that we’re serving thousands of
people every day, from our customers to
the thousands and thousands of jobs we’re
creating all across Canada.”
Pacinda says that success will be cel-
ebrated in April, 2014, as franchise part-
ners gather in Hawaii for an anniversary
party fifty years in the making. “We’re go-
ing to be talking about the last fifty years,
but we’ll also be focusing on the next fifty
years,” says Pacinda.
EVOLVING EXPERTISE
From the very start, Boston Pizza has
thrived in imparting a casual family-din-
ing experience made all the more entic-
ing by appeasing epicurean appetites with
its 100 menu items that include gourmet
pizza made from their signature hand-
pressed dough and other edible delights
in the variety of appetizers, pastas, sal-
ads, entrées and desserts. The menu has
evolved over time, and as part of plans
for its 50th Anniversary year, Pacinda
says Boston Pizza patrons will have the
opportunity to deliciously drive down
memory lane by sampling some of the
very first dishes distinguishing the menu
when this enterprise first started, such as a
Latin-sensation of seasoning in the Som-
