A hip pizza franchise with major personality, Toppers Pizza offers real Wisconsin cheese, fresh ingredients and high-tech apps for modern crowds.
Restaurant and Food
About Toppers Pizza
Toppers Pizza is a growing restaurant chain with over 80 locations, but it prioritizes service and quality as if it were a single hometown shop. The pizza place prides itself on crafting every pizza from scratch using handmade pizza dough and a wide range of fresh toppings that include artichoke hearts, applewood smoked bacon, garlic roasted tomatoes and thick cut pepperoni. The dough is made fresh every morning, and all pizza sauce is handmade as well.
This penchant for high-quality toppings, made-from-scratch everything and smartphone apps makes this chain especially popular with millennial and college crowds. It doesn’t hurt that Toppers Pizza also has an edgy vibe and lots of menu options that naturally go well with parties and beer, such as the chain’s famous cheese-covered Topperstix and pizza toppings that include buffalo chicken, nacho cheese, real cheddar and tater tots.
2000 (25 years)
16
$1,062,634
Franchise Fees
$10,000
$20,000 Veteran's Fee
5.5%
Gross Sales
3.0%
Gross Sales
Why Toppers Pizza?
Toppers Pizza brings a distinctive take on pizza that sets it apart from other national franchises. It consistently appeals to the quick service restaurant (QSR) market, and especially to individuals in the age group of 16–35, delivering average sales of over $900,000 per location in 2017. In part because of its commitment to awesome flavor, real ingredients and great customer relationships, in 2017 Toppers Pizza was featured prominently in the Top 40 Food and Beverage Franchises.
Modern tech plays a huge part of the brand’s success, and Toppers takes advantage of e-commerce, online ordering apps, an easy-to-use website and extensive social media relationships to connect with new and loyal customers. All aspects of ordering are accessible via any device, including smartphones and tablets. Toppers Pizza equips franchisees with access to all of these tools to create a solid reputation in local markets.
Ideal Candidate
Due to the Toppers Pizza brand’s signature style of passion and laid-back service, franchisees need to have a similarly energetic personality of their own. Core values revolve around getting along great with customers, creating a hip community hangout spot, having fun and putting out amazing pizza every time. Franchisees don’t need to have extensive experience with social media or e-commerce — these topics are covered in training — but it helps. The brand’s unconventional messaging and alt-rock persona are a good fit for owners who feel comfortable operating outside of traditional bounds. While having a college campus nearby is a plus, it’s not a requirement by any means.
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