D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches

D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches is a chain of sandwich shops located throughout New England. It serves various kinds of hot and cold subs, wraps, and salads.

For other uses, see D'Angelo (disambiguation).
D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryRestaurants
FoundedDedham, Massachusetts (1967 (1967))
ProductsSubs, Salads
other food products
Revenue 200 million USD (2004 estimate from Hoover's, Inc.)
ParentPapa Gino's
Websitedangelos.com
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History

In March 1967, 21-year-old Brian J. McLaughlin and Jay Howland opened "Ma Riva's Sub Shop" in Dedham, Massachusetts. The name was later changed to Angelo Sub Shop, and the letter D was added around 1978, supposedly standing for "delicious." The name change was to avoid any confusion with Angelo supermarkets. D'Angelo sold salads, Syrian pocket bread and sub sandwiches. Their most popular sub was the Steak and Cheese sandwich.

D'Angelo owned Liberty Bakery which baked and delivered all the bread to each store. They also owned Progressive Foods distribution center which delivered all the food to each store every week. Later they added a USDA meat processing plant to shave the 50,000 lbs. of steak consumed each week.

Beginning in the mid 1980s, many of the D'Angelo locations were co-branded and the store footprints were reworked to include full service Steve's Ice Cream counters. After several years, the Steve's component was rebranded as "Chip's".

In 1993 PepsiCo bought D'Angelo with the intent to grow the chain into a national brand alongside its other properties such as Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken; however, this plan never came to fruition. At the time the chain had 173 locations. [1]

Pepsi eliminated D'Angelo's ice cream brand, "Chip's," shortly after purchasing the chain.[2] During the time it was owned by Pepsi, some restaurants replaced the Chip's ice cream add-on, with a full service Pizza Hut add-on. Later some locations would also integrate a Honey Dew Donuts add-on.

In August 1997, Papa Gino's Holdings Corporation, the parent company of Papa Gino's, acquired D'Angelo, from Tricon Global Restaurants (then known as PepsiCo Inc.'s Pizza Hut unit).[3] At the time of the acquisition the sandwich chain had 203 locations. [4]

On November 4, 2018 numerous locations were abruptly shut down as part of their parent company's bankruptcy.[5]

D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches currently operates 80 locations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. [6]


References
  1. "Pizza Hut to Acquire D'Angelo Sandwich Shop Chain". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. Howard, Theresa (1993). "Pizza Hut's newest weapon: D'Angelo; PepsiCo chain poses fresh threat after arming itself with Massachusetts-based sandwich shop". Nation's Restaurant News.
  3. "Papa Gino's to acquire D'Angelo's Sandwich Shops". Boston Business Journal. American City Business Journals, Inc. 1997-08-13. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  4. News, Bloomberg (1997-08-14). "PIZZA HUT TO SELL ITS D'ANGELO'S SANDWICH SHOP CHAIN (Published 1997)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  5. Rocheleau, Matt (November 5, 2018). "Here's the full list of the 95 Papa Gino's, D'Angelo restaurants closing around the region - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  6. "All Locations : D'Angelo". dangelos.com. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
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