Over 45 years the Rosati family has expanded its pizza business to more than 150 franchised locations from Ohio to Texas and Arizona.
One happy payoff for the Rosatis: they moved a year ago into a new office location in Warrenville, overlooking a pond that reminds them of their summer retreat in Door County, Wisconsin.
“We work here and it reminds us of when we’re not working, we want to be in Door County,” explained Annamarie Bensfield, one of the five second-generation siblings now running the company. “Ninety-nine percent of the time we’re here, but we need something to remind us of what we’re working for.”
The business started in 1964 when the current managers’ uncles opened up a store in Mt. Prospect. Not long after that initial success Rosati’s Franchise and Development LLC began branching out, expanding through waves of franchising in the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and today to 154 locations. The early franchising operations weren’t as successful as they are currently, Bensfield said, but they learned something with every store they opened over the past 30 years.
Photo: Jennifer Freeman / Medill News.
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