Fireside Pies joins the investment group’s portfolio as the only gourmet pizza concept. & Lovers Ln. All you have to do is enter to win below Good luck, and happy eating Visit a Fireside Pie location near you: Henderson Ave., Dallas Inwood Rd. Headquartered in Richardson, Golden Tree Restaurants LLC has ownership in restaurant brands across the south including Golden Chick, Heff’s Burgers, JC’s Burger House, Jalapeno Tree and Texadelphia. Fireside Pies on Inwood has provided us with a 50 gift card to give to 1 reader, good at any Fireside Pies location. Bozarth has been with the brand for more than ten years. Golden Tree also announced that Joe Bozarth will remain with Fireside Pies as the company’s director of operations. Mitchell is responsible for efficiently running the company’s daily operations, including managing the existing locations and planning for future growth and expansion. In addition to Leonard’s appointment, Golden Tree Restaurants has also named Chris Mitchell Fireside Pies’ chief operating officer. “Adding Fireside to the Golden Tree Restaurant portfolio is an exciting opportunity and I am pleased to be able to work alongside Mark to refresh and grow this amazing brand.” “Mark and I have long admired the Fireside Pies chain and are incredibly optimistic about its future,” said Leonard. The brand also has plans to expand its footprint across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, keeping its primary focus on community and customer service. Under Golden Tree Restaurants’ leadership, Fireside Pies will work to streamline its already-popular menu and will soon introduce lunch service at each location. Today, Fireside Pies is a collection of intimate neighborhood restaurants dedicated to serving outstanding artisan pizzas made in hot wood-fired ovens. “This brand has consistently been about great food and excellent service and we are excited for the opportunity to take Fireside Pies to the next level.”įounded in 2004, the collection of intimate North Texas neighborhood restaurants are known for and will continue to serve wood-fired pizza, scratch made pasta and salad, alongside its signature cocktails and extensive wine collection. In 2004, Fireside Pies was born to an old cottage on historic Henderson Avenue in Dallas. “I am extremely excited to welcome Fireside Pies to our family at Golden Tree Restaurants,” said Mark Parmerlee, president of Golden Tree Restaurants LLC. As part of the acquisition, Golden Tree also announced it has named Henry Leonard the new president of Fireside Pies. 19 announced it has acquired Fireside Pies, an artisan pizzeria with locations in Dallas, Fort Worth, Grapevine, and Plano. And it was certainly not in the job description when I took the gig with Consilient.”Ĭonsilient’s brain trust did not return a call for comment.Golden Tree Restaurants LLC, a Richardson-based restaurant investment group, on Feb.
“I didn’t go to culinary school and work for Phil Romano and Dean Fearing to then work with an organization that pours high-fructose corn syrup over some substandard meat or frozen shrimp. “We were so the wrong group of guys to tackle that Genghis Grill deal,” says Badovinus. It might also have been the deal that nearly shot a small arrow in his almost brotherly relationship with Consilient’s founding chef, Nick Badovinus. Soon he was up to his eyebrows in tangled franchise issues, closing various stores, before eventually selling the entire brand to a franchisee. When Genghis’ owners defaulted on the loan, Simon felt compelled to take over the company and try to salvage a gradually collapsing investment. In the story that profiled Simon, author Andrew Martin wrote:
“It ended up being the single worst business decision I’ve ever made,” Simon told DFW.com in 2012. Oddly, Simon invested in Genghis Grill in 2003 then took over operational control of the company when the fast-food operator fell into bankruptcy. That restaurant, which debuted as a Fireside Pies, was recently rebranded as 13 Pies and readied for expansion into foreign markets (Atlanta and Houston, which we revealed a few months ago here).
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The FP sale to Genghis includes the original Dallas Fireside Pies, plus locations in Grapevine, Plano and Dallas, but not the Fort Worth location. Check out Fireside Pies Grapevine Menu of Wood-fired Oven Pizza. The casual pizza-centric restaurant was in the midst of an expansion when Consilient’s operational pot splattered a few weeks ago and resulted in Consilient CEO Simon Tristan parting ways with the company he founded. , the totem of artisanal pizza pies in Dallas when it was founded 10 years ago in a cottage on Henderson Avenue, was recently sold to the owners of Genghis Grill and is no longer part of Consilient Restaurants (Hibiscus, Victor Tangos, The Porch, AF+B).
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