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Giordano's

Chicago, IL · Founded 1974 · GSRD

VPC Pizza Franchise, LLC operates Giordano's® Restaurants, which specialize in the preparation and sale of stuffed deep dish pizza and thin-crust pizza, pasta, sandwiches, salads, appetizers and other related food products, along with alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption.

Read the 2026 FDD ↗www.giordanos.com ↗
2026 Franchise 500
Unranked
56
units (2025)
-6.7%
year over year

Units by Year

65
2022
62
2023
60
2024
56
2025

Total outlets at year end, from FDD Item 20.

The Investment

Initial investment
$633,000 – $1,012,000
FDD Item 7
Franchise fee
$40,000
FDD Item 5
Ad fund
2%
FDD Item 6
Financial performance
Yes
FDD Item 19 disclosure
Royalty

6% of Gross Revenues

Leadership

  • Nicholas Scarpino

    Chief Executive Officer

  • David Poole

    President and Chief Financial Officer

  • Tom Fife

    Director of Franchise Operations

  • Maria Reichl

    Vice President of Operations

  • Nihad Cehic

    Senior Director of New Restaurant Openings and Operational Excellence

  • Catherine Millar

    Vice President of Human Resources

  • Martha Spezia-Lashley

    Director of Supply Chain Management

  • Nicholas Scarpino

    Chief Marketing Officer

On File

FDD years
202620252024202220212020201920182017
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Franchisee records
21
Current roster rows
Signed, not open
1
FDD Item 20, Table 5
Franchising for
46 yrs

Franchise Disclosure Documents

PDFGiordano's FDD 2026Most recent · opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2025Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2024Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2022Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2021Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2020Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2019Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2018Opens in a new tabPDFGiordano's FDD 2017Opens in a new tab

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