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Article: Garlic Jim's Famous Gourmet Pizza.
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- Foodservice Equipment & Supplies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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By Donna Boss, Contributing Editor
Minimally equipped kitchens where employees assemble andbake gourmet pizzas with ingredients prepared and stored at commissaries allow Garlic Jim's to fill the gourmet pizza delivery void.
When Dwayne Northrop and other experienced quick-service and franchising managers and investors selected a concept to launch in the dense pizza category, they chose gourmet pizza delivered quickly. "We thought at the time it was a good niche," says Northrop, who serves as chairman and CEO of the Everett, Wash.-headquartered chain. "It turned out there was a void in the market for this concept." Northrop is one to know. He has nearly ...