Website mypiada.com Founded 2010 | Founder Chris Doody Number of locations 33 | |
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Areas served Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania Profiles | ||
Piada italian street food menu items
Piada Italian Street Food is a fast casual Italian cuisine restaurant chain with 27 locations in seven states (Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Texas) and 6 to be opened as of 2016. There are seventeen locations in Ohio, two in Michigan, two in Indiana, one in Kentucky, three in Minnesota, six in Texas, and one in Pennsylvania.
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The restaurant features custom-rolled wraps in a stone-grilled, thin-crusted dough made from organic flour and extra virgin olive oil, as well as chopped salads and bowls. The chain features food prepared along an assembly line, and has been called an Italian copycat of Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Chris Doody, owner of the company, is a co-founder of the Bravo Brio Restaurant Group chain. He sold his stake to investors in 2006 and launched the Piada concept around the Italian "wrap-like sandwich" known as a Piada or Piadina, a street food he sampled in northern Italy. It is stuffed with pastas, meats, cheeses, sauce and vegetables. Piada also serves pasta bowls, chopped salads, chips and dip, soups, and cannoli chips—a dessert item. There is a kids menu featuring smaller versions of the main menu items.