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Originally Posted by Jbo
Can anyone help explain to me what the heck is happening with a pizza place in Northmount. (1350 Northmount Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2L 0E8)
Originally it opened up as Papa Murphys. Lasted a couple months and closed only to emerge as....
POW Pizza, same owner as Without Papers. Once his nutball crazy came out during the pandemic it went under quite quickly and was quickly rebranded and reopened as..... 8 Mile Pizza. Everyone assumed it was the same owner, but nope, it was apparently a different ownership.
A couple months later, it rebranded again..... This time to Red Top Pizza. This place I actually tried and it was pretty good. At the point, no idea the ownership or what the heck is happening but seemed to be around for a year.
Until recently is has rebranded AGAIN. This time to New York Pizzeria.
I have no idea what is happening but by my count that is 5 businesses in the same location in 3ish years. I have no idea what is happening besides them changing hands every 3-6 months.
Does anyone know anything on this?
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I definitely don't know specifically what is going on but I do know that restaurants and specifically pizza places are tough businesses to survive it.
We have a family friend who opened up a pizza place in an under-served, middle income community. They made some great pizzas and when they first opened business was really strong. But demand quickly dried up through no fault of their own and it is just really tough to keep up business at "premium" prices.
This was many years ago and well before COVID and subsequent inflationary pressures. That business pretty much ruined the family and led to divorce and I suspect was a big contributing factor to a suicide although that was about two years later.