Ciccio Restaurant Group

What Ciccio Restaurant Group does

Ciccio Restaurant Group (legal entity: CRG Management, LLC) is a privately held, founder-led multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered at 3140 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, Florida. The company operates nine distinct restaurant sub-brands spanning healthy fast-casual (Fresh Kitchen, Ciccio Cali, Green Lemon), Tex-Mex and Mexican (Taco Dirty, Better Byrd), casual American (Daily Eats, Camp Tampa), specialty concepts (Water & Flour SoHo, Sweet Soul), and Italian (Jay Luigi). Ciccio was founded by James Lanza, who began the business in New York City roughly 25 years ago before relocating to Tampa Bay, where the company now concentrates its operations. The group is named after Lanza's father, Frank (Ciccio) Lanza, the founder of L3 Communications, and is family-controlled with no disclosed external institutional investors.

The company runs a direct-to-consumer model through owned physical restaurant locations and digital channels. Its technology layer is built entirely on third-party integrations: AlohaOrderOnline powers direct online ordering for the Ciccio Cali and Better Byrd brands; OpenTable handles reservations for the Ciccio's Water Tampa location; and MyGuestAccount (PCI-compliant, SSL-encrypted) supports a unified e-gift card program usable across all participating CRG concepts with no fees and no expiration. The group markets through brand-level Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts, and operates a formal partnership program that solicits entrepreneurial partners rather than franchisees to extend concepts into new markets.

Revenue is generated almost exclusively from restaurant food and beverage sales, supplemented by e-gift card purchases. The company targets general local consumers in the Tampa Bay area across a horizontal segmentation strategy, emphasizing repeat visits, brand-level diversity, and team culture as primary success metrics. Reported headcount is 501-1,000 employees; financial figures, unit counts per brand, and revenue are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Ciccio Restaurant Group

Legal name

CRG Management, LLC

Website

https://cicciorestaurantgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Ciccio Restaurant Group is a privately held, Tampa-based multi-brand restaurant operator running nine distinct dining concepts (healthy fast-casual, Tex-Mex, Italian, soul food) under direct-to-consumer ownership, serving local Tampa Bay consumers via physical locations and third-party digital ordering and reservation platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Multi-brand restaurants

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Casual Dining Restaurants (THAFACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ethnic & Regional Cuisine Restaurants (THAFACAD), Regional/Ethnic Specialty Fast Casual (e.g., Indian, Caribbean, African, Eastern European) (THAFABAM)

Keywords

• Multi-brand restaurants
• Casual dining
• Restaurant group
• Online food ordering
• Healthy fast-casual

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Food and Beverage Sales: Revenue from multiple restaurant concepts including Cali, Fresh Kitchen, Taco Dirty, Green Lemon, Daily Eats, Water & Flour SoHo, Camp Tampa, Sweet Soul, and Jay & Luigi. Customers order online or dine in-person.
2. Gift Card Sales: E-gift cards sold with no expiration date and no fees, usable at any participating CRG restaurant location for food and retail purchases.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Ciccio Restaurant Group operates nine distinct restaurant brands across the Tampa Bay, Florida area, offering diverse cuisines including healthy fast-casual (Fresh Kitchen, Green Lemon, Ciccio Cali), Tex-Mex (Taco Dirty, Better Byrd), casual dining (Daily Eats, Camp Tampa), and specialty concepts (Water & Flour SoHo, Sweet Soul, Jay Luigi). Customers can dine in at physical locations, order online via AlohaOrderOnline, make reservations through OpenTable, and purchase e-gift cards redeemable across participating CRG restaurants.

Product overview

Ciccio Restaurant Group is a multi-brand restaurant company operating nine distinct restaurant concepts across the Tampa Bay, Florida area and beyond. The portfolio includes health-focused concepts (Fresh Kitchen, Ciccio Cali, Green Lemon), Tex-Mex (Taco Dirty), casual dining (Daily Eats, Camp Tampa), and specialty concepts (Water & Flour Soho, Sweet Soul, Jay Luigi). The company operates primarily from Tampa, Florida with origins in New York City over 25 years ago. Each brand operates independently with its own online ordering system and physical locations, unified under the Ciccio Restaurant Group umbrella.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ciccio Cali: California cuisine restaurant brand operated by Ciccio Restaurant Group
• Better Byrd
• Fresh Kitchen
• Green Lemon
• Daily Eats
• Water and Flour SoHo
• Camp Tampa
• Sweet Soul
• Jay Luigi
• Taco Dirty

Products and services

• Taco Dirty

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OpentablecoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenTable integration used for restaurant reservations at Ciccio's Water, allowing customers to make online reservations through the OpenTable platform.
• AlohaOrderOnlinecoreTechnology or IntegrationAlohaOrderOnline platform powers online ordering for multiple CRG brands including Ciccio Cali and Better Byrd, enabling direct digital ordering capabilities.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• First Watch Restaurant Group: Public Florida-headquartered breakfast/brunch/lunch chain with a healthy, fresh positioning. Highly comparable to CRG on geography (Tampa Bay), health-conscious menu focus, and multi-unit operator profile.
• PDQ (PDQ Chicken): Tampa-based fast-casual chicken chain with multiple units in the same Florida market. Comparable as a Tampa-anchored, multi-unit fast-casual operator targeting health/value-conscious consumers.
• Fox Restaurant Concepts: Multi-concept restaurant group operating multiple differentiated brands (Sauce, Modern Market, North Italia). Comparable as a privately-held operator running multiple distinct cuisine concepts under one portfolio umbrella.

Broad incumbents

• Darden Restaurants: Large public multi-brand casual-dining operator (Olive Garden, LongHorn, Yard House, Cheddar's). Comparable as a multi-brand restaurant group strategy, though far larger and nationally diversified rather than regionally concentrated like CRG.
• Bloomin' Brands: Tampa-based public multi-brand casual-dining group (Outback, Carrabba's, Bonefish, Fleming's). Highly relevant for shared Tampa HQ, multi-brand portfolio model, and overlapping casual-dining target customer.
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store: Public multi-unit casual-dining operator with broad Southern/soul-food-adjacent menu overlap (Sweet Soul). Comparable on the casual-dining plus comfort-food segment and brand-portfolio operating model.
• Restaurant Brands International: Global multi-brand QSR/fast-casual holding company (Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes, Firehouse). Comparable as a multi-brand restaurant portfolio operator, though at much greater scale and on the QSR rather than casual-dining side.
• Inspire Brands: Multi-brand restaurant platform (Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Sonic, Dunkin', Jimmy John's, Baskin-Robbins). Comparable as a roll-up multi-brand restaurant strategy, though at far larger scale and PE-backed.

Regional players

• 4 Rivers Smokehouse: Florida-founded fast-casual BBQ group with multiple locations in the Tampa/Orlando corridor. Comparable as a Florida-rooted multi-unit restaurant concept that scaled within the same regional market CRG dominates.
• Beef 'O' Brady's: Tampa-headquartered family-sports-casual-dining chain with Florida/regional unit footprint. Comparable as a Tampa-anchored multi-unit restaurant operator with a similar founder/family ownership heritage and regional concentration profile.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cicciorg
• Facebookfacebook.com/cicciorg
• Instagraminstagram.com/cicciorg

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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