Toppers Pizza featured in QSR Magazine

Reporter Sam Oches of QSR, a restaurant industry trade publication, spoke with Scott Iversen about Toppers Pizza’s new focus on franchise development. The new direction focuses on attracting multi-unit operators who have a diverse portfolio of restaurant experience. Toppers has also hired two new key employees to round up its team: Brett Larrabee, formerly on the 5 Guys Burgers & Fries franchise development team and Curtis White, formerly with Quizno’s on the operations end. The strategic short term goal is for 100 units by the end of 2013 and the long term plan is to have 500 locations by 2020. Check out the article to learn more about Toppers growth.

Toppers Lays Out Plans for Accelerated Growth
By Sam Oches

Toppers Pizza announced that, as a means to accelerate growth, the company will start focusing on employing multiunit franchisees with diverse portfolios instead of single-unit operators.

The 28-unit, Whitewater, Wisconsin–based brand is aiming to have 100 units open and operating by 2013, says director of marketing Scott Iversen.
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Toppers' Spank Your Pizza Contest featured in Journal & Courier

Toppers was recently featured in an article in the “People & Products” section of the Journal & Courier of Lafeyette, IN. The article alerts readers of Toppers’ “Spank Your Pizza” Facebook tournament, and notes that Toppers has narrowed finalists down to 64, with the winning pizza to be chosen by Toppers’ 17,000 Facebook fans.

People & Products

Toppers Pizza, which has a location in West Lafayette, has narrowed the field of its Spank Your Facebook Pizza Challenge to 64 finalists.

The finalists are asked to create their own pizza menu item with the winning entry becoming a permanent fixture, named after its creator, on Toppers menu nationwide. Toppers has more than 17,000 Facebook fans.

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