Pizza Patron Inc., a Dallas-based pizza chain largely geared toward the Hispanic market, has given the green light to a group of investors who want to open 10 new locations in the Rio Grande Valley.
Pete Donbavand, a partner with Valley PP Partners LLC, said the plan is for two new stores in Brownsville, one in San Benito and the rest elsewhere in the Valley. Harlingen probably won't get a new store, due to the company's two-mile "radius requirement" mandating at least two miles between locations, he said. That's unless the partnership can acquire Harlingen's existing Pizza Patron or get a waiver on the two-mile rule, which Donbavand admits "might be a stretch."
The Harlingen store, two in Brownsville and two Pizza Patrons in Edinburg and McAllen are not Valley PP Partners franchises, though Valley PP Partners now has exclusive rights to the Valley region from Brownsville to Del Rio, excluding Laredo.
"Nobody else can come into the market or open additional stores besides us," Donbavand said.
He described Pizza Patron as "a good concept" based on a very affordable product. READ MORE
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