4 | UNO Pizzeria & Grill with a single restaurant at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Ohio Street on Chicago’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 surprising for an executive-level employee, seems warranted when it comes to the chain’s imminent future. FUTURE FOCUSED The company owns and operates 84 restaurants, 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 namesake for more than 60 franchise units, including facilities in such far-flung locales as South Korea, Honduras, Mexico, the
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