cossetta

What cossetta does

Cossetta, Inc. is a fourth-generation, family-owned Italian food business headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, that has operated continuously since 1911 when founder Michael Cossetta opened a small Italian food market after emigrating from Calabria, Italy. The company today operates Cossetta Alimentari, a multi-floor Italian food destination at 211 7th Street West that bundles six distinct concepts under one roof: a 300-seat Eatery & Pizzeria, Frank's Levee Tavern (Italian street-food pub), Louis Ristorante & Bar (upscale third-floor dining with private rooms for up to 50 guests and St. Paul's largest rooftop bar), Pasticceria (Italian pastry and gelato shop with an imported marble pastry bar from Tuscany), an Italian Market grocery tripled in size with a 100-foot salumeria case, and Eventi Catering, which serves events from 2 to 2,000 guests. Revenue is generated across five streams: dine-in/transactional restaurant sales, retail grocery, full-service catering, gift cards in $20–$100 denominations redeemable across all venues, and direct-to-consumer e-commerce shipping of its award-winning Traditional and Chocolate Panettone at $79.95 each. The company serves local St. Paul families and residents as the primary segment, supplemented by tourists visiting the Little Italy neighborhood, event planners and corporate clients for catering, and a distributed nationwide consumer base for shipped panettone.

The underlying technology stack is intentionally lightweight and entirely third-party: ChowNow powers online ordering for takeout and delivery, OpenTable handles reservations for Louis Ristorante, MadMimi runs the email newsletter, and the company maintains standard social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Yelp). No proprietary software, mobile app, or AI/ML capabilities are evidenced; the go-to-market motion is fundamentally direct-to-consumer, anchored on physical foot traffic to the single St. Paul destination, supplemented by online channels for panettone and gift card sales. Cossetta holds registered trademarks on COSSETTA and COSSETTA ALIMENTARI, has won four consecutive Coppa del Mondo Americas panettone championships (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025), and operates as a privately held company with no disclosed funding, no parent entity, and no institutional outside ownership in the available data.

Name

cossetta

Legal name

Cossetta, Inc.

Website

https://cossettas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1911

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Italian Restaurant and Food Marketplace

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Baked Goods Retailers (445291), Specialty Food Retailers (4452), Other Specialty Food Retailers (44529), Caterers (722320), Caterers (72232)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Grocery Stores (5411), Retail-Food Stores (5400)

akta.pro primary industry

Patisseries & Dessert Boutiques (CRAHAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ethnic Grocery + Butcher/Bakery/Hot Bar (Integrated Service Counters) (CRAHAFAM), Ice Cream & Gelato Shops (THAFAGAA)

Keywords

• Italian restaurant dining
• Italian grocery retail
• Italian catering services
• Artisan panettone bakery
• Pastry and gelato shop

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint Paul

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

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dining: Revenue from multiple dining concepts: Eatery & Pizzeria (casual), Frank's Levee Tavern (pub-style), Louis Ristorante & Bar (upscale dining), and Pasticceria (pastries and gelato). Includes dine-in, takeout, and delivery orders.
2. Italian Grocery Retail: The Italian Market sells imported Italian food products, house-made sauces, and prepared foods for at-home cooking. Expanded to three times its original size.
3. Panettone E-commerce: Online sales of award-winning Traditional Panettone ($79.95) and Chocolate Panettone ($79.95) shipped nationwide. Panettone returns to market December 15 and is available for online pre-orders.
4. Eventi Catering: Catering service for private gatherings from 2 people to grand celebrations up to 2,000 attendees. Menu planning and full-service catering.
5. Gift Cards: Gift cards sold in $20, $25, $50, and $100 denominations, redeemable across all restaurants, market, pasticceria, and catering.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Cossetta operates a multi-level Italian marketplace (Cossetta Alimentari) in St. Paul, Minnesota, offering casual and upscale Italian dining, an Italian grocery, a pastry shop with gelato, and full-service catering. It also produces and sells an award-winning Traditional Panettone and Chocolate Panettone directly to consumers online for nationwide shipping, alongside gift cards usable across all venues.

Product overview

Cossetta Alimentari is a multi-level Italian marketplace and food hall operated by Cossetta, Inc., located in St. Paul, Minnesota. The portfolio includes: Eatery & Pizzeria (300-seat casual dining with award-winning pizza and pasta since 1911), Frank's Levee Tavern (classic pub with Italian street food), Louis Ristorante & Bar (upscale dining on the third floor with rooftop bar and private dining for 50), Pasticceria (Italian pastry shop with imported marble bar from Tuscany), Italian Market (expanded grocery with imported ingredients and house-made sauces), Eventi Catering (catering for 2-2,000 guests), and food products including Traditional Panettone ($79.95, U.S. Champion 2019/2021/2023, Best In Americas 2025) and Chocolate Panettone. Gift cards are available in $20, $25, $50, and $100 denominations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Eatery & Pizzeria

Quantifiable outcome

• 4 consecutive Coppa del Mondo Americas panettone championships (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025)
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Olive Garden (Darden Restaurants): Largest casual Italian dining chain in the US — comparable category (casual Italian pasta/pizza) but at massive scale and as a broad incumbent, not a destination specialty operator like Cossetta.

Direct peers

• California Pizza Kitchen: Casual pizza and pasta chain with catering program — comparable to Cossetta's Eatery & Pizzeria casual concept and to Eventi Catering for group/corporate off-premise dining.
• Maggiano's Little Italy: Upscale-casual Italian dining chain with private event and banquet catering — directly comparable to Cossetta's Louis Ristorante (upscale) and Eventi Catering (private/corporate events) offerings.
• Carbone (Major Food Group): Upscale Italian-American restaurant and catering concept — comparable to Cossetta's Louis Ristorante & Bar on the upscale Italian dining side and to Eventi Catering on the high-end private events side.
• Buca di Beppo: Italian-American restaurant chain serving family-style pasta, pizza, and Italian entrees — comparable to Cossetta's Eatery & Pizzeria concept in casual Italian dining format and family/group occasion use case.
• Il Fornaio: Italian restaurant and bakery-café concept pairing full-service dining with fresh Italian pastries and breads — directly comparable to Cossetta's combination of formal dining plus Pasticceria and Italian Market bakery.
• Eataly: Operates Italian marketplaces combining restaurants, retail grocery, bakery, and cooking schools under one roof — the closest direct analogue to Cossetta Alimentari's multi-concept destination model, but at global scale.

Regional players

• Lunds & Byerlys: Twin Cities upscale grocery chain stocking imported Italian goods and prepared foods — comparable to Cossetta's Italian Market on the retail specialty grocery side, competing for similar Twin Cities shoppers seeking Italian ingredients and prepared meals.
• Punch Pizza: Twin Cities-based Neapolitan pizza chain — comparable to Cossetta's Eatery & Pizzeria concept and competes for similar local casual Italian dining occasions in the same Minneapolis–St. Paul market.

Others

• DeIorio's / Italian specialty food brands: Frozen Italian specialty food brand sold through grocery — adjacent comparable to Cossetta's Panettone e-commerce line as a packaged Italian specialty food consumer product distributed beyond a single restaurant.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cossettas
• Facebookfacebook.com/cossettas
• Instagraminstagram.com/cossettas
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cossetta-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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