Buddy's Pizza

Buddy's Pizza is an independent pizza restaurant chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1946, the company has an annual revenue of US $30 million. The chain's eleven restaurants have a total of 700 employees.[1] Buddy's has been called one of the five best pizzerias in the United States by the Food Network.[2] They have a bocce ball league that plays every Saturday morning at their original location on Conant Street.

Buddy's Pizza
Buddy's Pizza in Livonia
Restaurant information
Established1946 (1946)
Owner(s)The Jacobs Family
Food typeAmerican, Italian
Dress codeCasual (Everyone Is Welcome)
Other informationFounder, Gus Guerra
WebsiteBuddysPizza.com

Cuisine

The restaurant serves Detroit-style pizza baked in blue steel pans. In addition to pizza, Buddy's serves sandwiches, soups, pastas, salads, Sanders Hot Fudge Sundaes, and chicken tenders.

History

Buddy’s Rendezvous was opened in 1936 by Gus Guerra on Conant Street in Detroit as a “Blind Pig” (A tavern that wasn’t supposed to be selling alcoholic beverages). It wasn’t until 1946 when Buddy’s Rendezvous created the Detroit Style Pizza that it was a success. Circa 1972 the Jacobs family purchased the three-store restaurant chain (Detroit, Farmington Hills, and Warren). The restaurant was purchased by private equity group Capital Spring in 2019. In 2023 there are now 22 stores in the restaurant chain.

The restaurant opened up locations across Michigan and currently has nineteen restaurants.[3] The additional locations are Ann Arbor, Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Dearborn, Downtown Detroit, Farmington Hills, Grand Rapids, Grosse Pointe, Lansing, Livonia, Novi, Plymouth, Portage, Royal Oak, Shelby Township, Warren, Detroit Woodhaven.[4]

In 2022, the restaurant chain will open up two more locations, Okemos, Michigan[5] and Clarkston, Michigan.[6]

References
  1. "Buddy's now offers e-mail on the side". The Detroit News. January 1, 2006. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
  2. "Detroit's Buddy's Pizza turns 60". Pizza Marketplace. August 8, 2006. Archived from the original on December 17, 2018. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
  3. "Buddy's Pizza to open its new Delta Twp. eatery for carryout June 1". Lansing State Journal. June 26, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  4. "Locations". BuddysPizza.com. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  5. "Former Burger King building in Meridian Township demolished to make way for Buddy's Pizza". WSYM. July 6, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  6. DeVito, Lee. "Buddy's Pizza is opening two more Michigan restaurants in 2022". Detroit Metro Times. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

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