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Mesa Gets Fast-growing Latino Chain's First Arizona Location 07/13/04 MESA, AZ - July, 13, 2004 - Pizza Patrón, the premier Latino pizza brand, opened its first location in Arizona at 354 N. Country Club Dr. in Mesa. "We had a great opening and couldn't be happier to be serving the Mesa community," said Lalo Gonzalez, partner of Grupo Pizza De Arizona, LLC, the company developing the Pizza Patrón brand in Arizona. Pizza Patrón was founded by Antonio Swad in 1986. Since franchising began in March 2003, the brand has gone from four locations to 117, either open or under development, says Swad. Pizza Patrón features festive and fun carryout-only pizza stores that are community based in Spanish speaking or predominately Hispanic neighborhoods. The units are open from 4:00 to 10:00 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 4:00 to midnight on Fridays, 12:00 p.m. to midnight Saturdays, and 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sundays. The menu is value oriented, offering high quality, freshly prepared pizzas at very low price points. All pizza dough is made fresh throughout the evening; no preservatives are added or needed. The sauce is prepared fresh in the stores, as well, from crushed Roma tomatoes. Only 100% mozzarella is used. Whole and half pizzas are offered at prices as low as $4.99 for a large pizza with cheese and one topping and $3.49 for the same half pizza. A large deluxe pizza with everything is only $6.99
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