smaller portions, no more soup/salad included with the price. new items including individual sized artisan pizzas and chicken wings 'vesuvio'.

oven-baked rigatoni with herbed ricotta was delicious. $12.50 for a single serving with a breadsitck.

Chapter 11 is not liquidation, so yes they continue to operate.

Girodano's is awesome

It's the fresh ingredients.

That's a very interesting case. I haven't read much about it in awhile.

There are a lot of angles to the story. They owe Fifth Third giant money. The family was pulling ridiculous salaries out of there. The franchisees held a revolt. And some anti-government anti-tax nutjob got ahold of Apostolou and began claiming he owned a large chunk of the company and had Apostolou making wacky statements in federal court.

My wife and used to there all the time for the stuffed pizza. Since the kids, we don't go much. It's hard to keep them calm waiting for pizza. Maybe. Says something about our parenting. i will say, the one by us is always busy. And we tried to go to the one on rush and superior last saturday and it was 90 minutes to get a table.

My friend had a franchise in the suburbs and then in Florida.

He got pretty fucked by all of this

Girodano's is awesome

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

Giordono's is still in business?

My friend had a franchise in the suburbs and then in Florida.

He got pretty fucked by all of this

Derrick Rose gets into pizza business

Derrick Rose is back to dishing it out again. Except this time, he's giving an assist to a well-known, Chicago-based pizza establishment.

Deep dish pizza company Giordano's will announce on Thursday that the Chicago Bulls point guard has become an equity partner in the restaurant franchise.

"The pizza business is a cash flow machine; we just have to make it grow," said Richard Levy, managing partner of Victory Park Capital Advisors, which bought the stalwart Chicago brand last year.

So Giordano's, which is looking to branch out from the Chicagoland area, will lean on Rose to give it a boost as it moves outside of its comfort base.

The brand, famous for its two layers of dough surrounding its stuffed pie, has 43 restaurants, only three of which are outside the state of Illinois.

In the process of considering how to grow the company beyond its traditional roots, Levy said he befriended former Bulls guard B.J. Armstrong, who is Rose's agent, and found out that Rose was a fan of Giordano's.

Levy said Rose paid for his undisclosed piece of the pie, which will entitle him to the share of the profits as the company seeks to branch out, first to the Midwest and in "Big Ten" college cities and eventually to other states notably California and Texas, the two top states where Giordano's says it ships the most frozen pizzas to.

As a private company, Giordano's doesn't disclose revenue, but the company's CEO and president Yorgo Koutsogiorgas said the brand has been growing at 5 to 9 percent a year, without price increases. He said the company will make roughly 13.4 million pizza pies this year.

Koutsogiorgas said the company will use Rose by putting his image on a special takeout box and will drive customers to his favorite pie, a thin crust version with cheese, sausage and red peppers.

Giordano's will not be allowed to use official Bulls trademarks in any of it's advertising or promotional material involving Rose. The Bulls have sold its official pizza designation to supermarket brand DiGiorno.

Giordano's competes with other deep dish pizza brands such as Lou Malnati's, Gino's East and Pizzeria Uno.

It has been a big week for athletes and pizza. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was named national spokesman for Pizza Hut on Tuesday.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

Glad to see athletes still piss their money away on stupid business ventures.

Ewing Athletics relaunching

Patrick Ewing is readying for a comeback -- or at least his shoes are.

The former New York Knicks center is relaunching his shoe company, Ewing Athletics, later this week.

"Over the years, I've had a lot of people ask me when they'd see me at appearances of when I was coaching, if I was ever bringing the shoes back," Ewing said Tuesday. "I just didn't feel comfortable doing it."

But after meeting Dave Goldberg, a Ewing shoe collector and investor, and talking the idea over with his longtime agent, David Falk, Ewing was convinced it was time.

The brand will hit retail stores in New York on Friday and subsequently roll out in 33 stores nationwide before hitting Europe for the holiday season.

In 1989, as the shoe business heated up thanks mostly due to Air Jordans, Ewing, who was getting paid nearly $1 million a year by adidas, left the brand. For most of the 1988-89 season, at the advice of Falk, he wore an unbranded white shoe to keep people guessing what was next. Toward the end of the season, Ewing, in partnership with Pony founder Roberto Mueller, unveiled the Ewing Athletics brand. By 1990, the company was doing remarkable business, grossing approximately $100 million that year.

The company released more than 20 different shoe models until 1996, when challenges, including the overall sneaker market itself, forced Ewing and his partners to shut down the business.

"We did very well for a while, but it got harder," Ewing said. "Lot of kids started replacing basketball shoes with Timberland sneakers and Nike became more of a force."

Nike is even bigger today, selling 95 percent of the basketball shoes in this country, according to market retail tracking firm SportsOneSource. That's why Ewing says the key is to start small.

"We're not going to mass produce and try to sell as many pairs as we can in the first year," Ewing said. "We know that if we're patient, we'll do well for years to come."

The first shoes that will hit stores are dubbed the "33 Hi Retro." Ewing's name and signature are on the tongue, heel and side and a "33" keychain comes attached to the shoe. The shoes come in a box with an older picture of Ewing in the blue and white of Georgetown, where he led the Hoyas to a national title in 1984.

The shoes will retail for $100.

"I think it's the right price point for what we're trying to do," Ewing said.

He said that he thought LeBron James and Nike were recently unfairly criticized for a shoe that could have a $300 price tag.

"There are $500 Louis Vuitton sneakers," Ewing said. "You can say it's too high or too low, but if people can afford it, there's a market for it."

After being let go as part of Stan Van Gundy's coaching team in Orlando, Ewing is out of a coaching job.

"I still feel like I can be a very good coach one day and want to get back," Ewing said. "But being out of a job allows me to focus on my shoe business again."

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?