Between Quote by Dave Portnoy

If you're ordering chain, you're a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that's better than a chain. They can't stand…

— Dave Portnoy

Despite offering dollar menus and frequent discounts, many of these chains also scored poorly in terms of value.

— Steve Ells

Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery -…

— Virginia Postrel

“Price plays a larger role in the positioning of stores than it does in the positioning of brands. Price rarely provides a differential advantage…

— Greg Thain

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't…

— William Least Heat-Moon

I remember looking to McDonald's, and, my God, they have 13,000 restaurants in the United States. Well, we have almost a couple thousand Chipotles.…

— Steve Ells

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts…

— Anonymous

I always offer the delivery guy an extra $10 to feed me the pizza.

— Nikhil Saluja

It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy a good…

— Wendell Berry

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things…

— John Lanchester

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in…

— Ryan Holmes

There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.

— Wolfgang Puck