FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS DECEMBER 2017
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DECEMBER 2017
ANTHONY’S EXPANDS THEIR BRAND
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And To All, A Good Night
On behalf of the Foodservice Publishing staff and associates, the advertisers, printers and tipsters, contributors and people who poke us with ideas and information, thank you for continuing to read us. 2017 may be remembered as the year of everybody wanting to be heard, even when some of the messages are fueled by outrage or misinformation. In the wider and greater world, 2017 also gave us enormous strides in technology, historic discoveries, a robust economy and a booming stock market doubling down on new products and smarter use of our natural resources. Even as fires, hurricanes and floods have cursed so many of us, we reach out to rebuild and help. 2017 is the year we all pitched in, even if ideologies differ. Never lose hope; good always triumphs not by natural selection, but by human determination. Regardless of the ways you celebrate this holiday season, we hope that you are celebrating them at a shared table with nice people who, like many of us, often work too hard. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holidays. Valerie Miller, Publisher
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Shown above: The Crosstown Classic Pizza – meatballs, sausage, hot & sweet peppers and ricotta cheese; Pork Ribs with Vinegar Peppers – roasted in the coal oven, garlic, rosemary, spicy vinegar peppers and white wine; Take the Pot home – Meatballs with ricotta cheese
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza made its grand entrance into Chicagoland with the opening of its first restaurant in the market in October 2017 at 14205 S. La Grange Road in Orland Park, IL. New locations are planned for Chicagoland at 757 E. Butterfield Rd. in Lombard and 20413 N. Rand Rd. in Killdeer, IL The brand plans to open an additional 10-12 locations in the market within the next three years. Every ingredient at Anthony’s is made from scratch daily, including the most important pizza element: its signature dough. With fresh ingredients like vineripened tomatoes, real mozzarella and parmesan cheese, a kitchen without freezers or microwaves and an old-world inspired coal-fired pizza oven, Anthony’s is creating a signature authentic, Italian pizza experience unlike anything else in Chicagoland.
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