Johnnie's Pizza vs Firo Fire Kissed Pizza Franchise Comparison

Below is an in-depth analysis and side-by-side comparison of Johnnie's Pizza vs Firo Fire Kissed Pizza including start-up costs and fees, business experience requirements, training & support and financing options.

Company Overviews

About Johnnie's Pizza

At 16 years old, Bruce Jackson was flipping pizza at the original Johnny’s Pizza in Manlius, New York. He loved the business: serving piping hot pizza - always made with fresh, authentic ingredients - to happy customers, sitting down with the locals on a Friday night for a slice, or feeding the high school football team after a win. He saw opportunity. And he wanted to build his own. Most of our franchise operators are familiar with the feeling.

In three short years, Bruce opened a Johnny’s Pizza just off the Syracuse University campus with Johnny’s younger brother Rosario. After six years of success there, Bruce and a new business partner, Scott Allen, were ready for a move to warmer weather! Atlanta, Georgia is where they landed.

In 1977, Bruce and Scott wrote "Now Open” on a pizza box, stuck it in the front window of their storefront in Atlanta, and started selling pizza. One year later, they opened a second store. As entrepreneurs, they saw bigger potential in the brand and the business model they’d so carefully fine-tuned. In 1994, they officially began to franchise. In 2003, we needed a unique name to operate on a national level. So we gave Johnny a last name, and Johnny Brusco’s Pizza was born!

Now a new generation of leadership is guiding Johnny’s Pizza into the future. Bruce’s son, Luke, is expanding the business across the southeast and focusing on growth in dine-in, delivery and online ordering segments. We’re also focusing on ways to increase individual store volume growth, including new seasonal menu offerings and an expanded craft beer selection.

About Firo Fire Kissed Pizza

Our visionary founder assembled a group of recognized restaurant experts and partnered with internationally renowned chefs to create an exceptional dining experience at a concept that is uniquely special, but still replicable. Now, Firo is bringing it’s fire kissed pizza to other parts of the country through the Firo Fire Kissed Pizza franchise program. Now is your chance to own a piece of the pie with your own Firo Fire Kissed Pizza restaurant.
As we set our sights on growing this exceptional concept, it’s good to know the pizza restaurant industry earns annual revenue of $39 billion in sales and expected to increase. According to the USDA about one in eight Americans consume pizza on any given day. There is no doubt that Americans love their pizzas and savvy business entrepreneurs will love our franchise program.Next comes the main ingredient, training. You and your managers will be thoroughly trained at headquarters in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Firo team will lead you through both classroom and on-the-job training. In the classroom, some of the topics that will be covered are guest service, kitchen and food prep steps, inventory, accounting procedures, management techniques, use of software systems, and much more.