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Anthony & Luca’s Pizza Kitchen: A Pizza Franchise in Our Family

Restaurants are a big part of Ignite Design Group’s work, so it fits that one of our sister businesses is a restaurant brand. Anthony & Luca’s Pizza Kitchen is a pizza franchise serving New York and Jersey Boardwalk-style pizza, Philly cheesesteaks and Italian street food, with locations in Florida and Texas.

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Where Anthony & Luca’s operates

Anthony & Luca’s currently has three open locations, each serving dine-in, pickup and delivery:

  • Pinellas Park, FL (the flagship) at 4687 Park Blvd
  • Tampa, FL at 7032 W Waters Ave
  • Houston, TX at 9618 Jones Rd in northwest Houston

The brand lists Sarasota, Florida and Strongsville and Canton, Ohio as coming soon.

The menu

The kitchen is built around three styles of pizza on three generations of family recipes. The thin-and-crispy New York dough is made daily with New York City water, and pies are also available Upside-Down Jersey Boardwalk style. The restaurant uses Grande cheese from Wisconsin.

The cheesesteaks follow Philadelphia tradition: thin-sliced USDA ribeye and American cheese on Amoroso rolls baked in Philadelphia. The Italian street food side of the menu includes panzerotti, suppli and arancini, and sides like Philly Crabby Fries come with a Cooper Sharp cheese sauce. Catering and fundraising programs are also offered.

The franchise opportunity

Anthony & Luca’s is actively franchising and describes three ways to bring the brand to a new market:

  • Brick-and-mortar stand-alone or in-line stores in busy shopping centers, with dine-in, take-out and delivery.
  • Ghost ALPK, which adds the menu to an existing kitchen and sells through DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and the brand’s own online ordering.
  • Mobile units, food trucks with or without pizza capability, for events, festivals and corporate gatherings.

The franchise team describes training at the corporate location and the new store, in-person help from soft opening through grand opening, a franchise coordinator for day-to-day questions, and digital, social and print marketing support. Anyone interested in territories can start with the pizza franchise in Florida and Texas site and its franchise inquiry form.

What a growing restaurant brand teaches us

A multi-location restaurant brand has to keep menus, hours, ordering links and Google profiles consistent across every store while still ranking locally in each market. Those are the same problems we help independent restaurants and franchise groups solve across Tampa Bay, from location pages and HTML menus to review responses and local SEO.

If you run a restaurant or are opening new locations, contact Ignite Design Group to talk through your website and local marketing.