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Article: CHICAGO'S PASTA POWER // Number of Italian Restaurants Grows 42% Since 1989
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 14, 1995
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Somewhere in the recent past the City of Big Shoulders became the
City of Lotsa Pasta.
Italian restaurants, by most estimates, are the No. 1 growth
segment on the local food front. The trend is national, but it's
been embraced with particular zest here. The high-profile evidence
is everywhere: Coco Pazzo, Scoozi!, Tucci Milan, Vinci, Rosebud,
Spiaggia, Club Lucky, Nick & Tony's, Vivo and all those Maggiano's
and Carluccis.
According to Evanston-based Restaurant Consulting Group, the
number of full-service Italian restaurants in the six-county metro
area has increased a whopping 42 percent since 1989. That's far
above the healthy national increase of 22 percent in the same period.
And ...