Zaza Fine Salad & Wood-Oven Pizza

Name

Zaza Fine Salad & Wood-Oven Pizza

Website

https://piccinopizza.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Italian Casual Dining Restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Family-Style Restaurants (THAFACAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Pizza Fast Casual (THAFABAB)

Keywords

• Italian restaurant
• Wood-fired pizza
• Casual dining
• Italian cuisine
• Pizza catering

Headquarters

HQ city

Little Rock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Food and Beverage Sales: Restaurant serves food and beverages directly to customers dining on premises, including pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, salads, appetizers, desserts, beer, wine, cocktails, and soft drinks
2. Catering Services: Catering menu featuring variety of dishes for events including birthday parties, holiday parties, corporate events, and weddings
3. Third-Party Delivery Platform Commissions: Online orders placed through direct website ordering system and third-party delivery platforms (Grubhub, DoorDash, UberEats)

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Zaza Fine Salad & Wood-Oven Pizza is a family-owned Italian restaurant that prepares and serves wood-fired oven pizzas, pasta, sandwiches, salads, and appetizers for lunch and dinner service. In addition to dine-in and takeout, the company offers catering and partners with third-party delivery platforms to reach off-premises diners.

Product overview

Piccino Wood Oven Pizza is a family-owned and operated Italian restaurant offering a comprehensive dining experience centered on wood-fired gourmet pizzas (10" and 16" take-and-bake options), oven-baked pasta dishes, freshly made panini and piadine flatbread sandwiches, calzones, appetizers, salads, and desserts. The restaurant also provides catering services for events and accommodates large groups of 30+ guests. Beverage offerings include draft and bottled beers, wines, hand-crafted cocktails, and non-alcoholic options. All pizzas and sandwiches are available with gluten-free alternatives. The company operates a birthday club loyalty program and hosts regular events celebrating national food and drink days.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wood-Oven Pizza

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse: Casual-dining chain featuring deep-dish pizza, pastas, salads, and a craft beer program. Comparable to Piccino's combined pizza-plus-full-bar sit-down experience at a regional scale.
• Olive Garden: Largest casual Italian dining chain in the U.S. Overlaps with Piccino in Italian menu (pasta, salads, breadsticks), full-service sit-down model, and broad-appeal pricing strategy.
• California Pizza Kitchen (CPK): Established casual-dining chain known for creative wood-fired pizzas, pastas, and salads. Comparable in menu architecture, sit-down format, and full bar program, though operating at substantially larger scale.

Emerging players

• Blaze Pizza: Fast-casual custom pizza chain with high-temperature ovens. Comparable in customization model and oven-cooking approach, serving as an adjacent fast-casual alternative rather than direct sit-down competitor.
• Pieology Pizzeria: Fast-casual customizable pizza chain with stone-hearth ovens. Comparable on customizable-pizza and oven-cooking dimensions, but differs in service model and does not offer Piccino's full Italian menu or bar program.
• MOD Pizza: Fast-casual wood-fired pizza chain with a customizable menu. Comparable to Piccino's customizable pizza concept and wood-fired cooking, though distinct in service model (counter-order vs. full-service).

Direct peers

• Mellow Mushroom: Casual-dining pizza chain with stone/wood-fired ovens and a creative-toppings menu. Comparable to Piccino in its casual sit-down experience, specialty pizza positioning, and broad Italian-adjacent menu (sandwiches, salads, calzones).
• Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza: Casual-dining chain specializing in coal/wood-fired oven pizzas with a similar cooking-method differentiation. Closely comparable to Piccino's positioning around authentic, high-heat oven-cooked pizzas in a sit-down environment.
• Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom: Colorado-headquartered casual-dining pizza and craft beer chain. Directly comparable as a regional pizza-and-beer sit-down concept with similar price points and a deep beverage program.

Regional players

• Noodles & Company: Colorado-based casual chain with a globally-inspired menu including Italian pastas. Comparable as a Colorado-rooted, broad-menu casual-dining concept competing for similar lunch and dinner occasions, though not a pizza specialist.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/1537614439837395
• Instagraminstagram.com/piccinopizza
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/piccino-wood-oven-pizza

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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