PizzaFire has pushed back by eight days the opening date for its first Dayton-area restaurant.
The restaurant coming to 4325 Far Hills Ave. in Kettering had been scheduled to open today, Aug. 22.
“We experienced a minor delay,” Ryan Rao, director of business development for the Cleveland-based pizza chain, said in an email to this news outlet. “We are scheduled to open on Aug. 30.” Rao did not elaborate on what caused the delay.
The Kettering location will employ about 20, and will occupy more than 3,000 square feet of space near the intersection of Shroyer Road and Ohio 48, in a retail center that also includes Firehouse Subs and Chipotle. PizzaFire plans to add three or four more locations in the Dayton region, Rao has said. The company’s web site lists Beavercreek as a “coming-soon” location for a potential second Dayton-area restaurant.
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With its fast-serve, built-to-order service line similar to Chipotle, PizzaFire is similar in concept to Kettering-based Rapid Fired Pizza, which launched less than a year ago and which now operates five Dayton-area locations, and Seattle-based MOD Pizza, which has signed agreements to open restaurants in Englewood and Centerville.
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PizzaFire has six locations in the Cleveland-Akron area and two in suburban Columbus, and more than 20 in the works in northeast and central Ohio. Company officials are projecting that they’ll have 50 units open by then end of 2017 in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and international locations.
