Pizza Restaurants

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

units (2025)

—

year over year

Units by Year

2022

2023

2024

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

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