For almost 40 years, a local Tucson family has operated Peter Piper Pizza stores in Tucson and Phoenix under the business Southwest Pizza Inc. That is about to change. Just yesterday, Peter Piper, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CEC Entertainment, LLC, announced the acquisition of 10 franchised locations in Arizona.
CEC, which also owns Chuck E. Cheese and Pasqually’s Pizza and Wings, will take over 9 Tucson-area stores and one Phoenix-area store on November 1st, according to a press release.
“We appreciate the decades of passion and quality that Southwest Pizza, Inc., and the Baxla family brought to the Peter Piper Pizza brand in Tucson,” Peter Piper Pizza President Randy Forsythe said in the release. “We will continue building on their success in the area as part of our overall growth strategy nationally and internationally.”
The purchase of the 10 stores will bring the number of corporate owned pizzerias to 43. You can observe these cheesy masterpieces by clicking here.
