It’s almost as if America was losing its taste for pizza.
Sbarro, the seemingly omnipresent pizza joint at mall food courts, filed for bankruptcy protection this week. That follows Round Table Pizza, a West Coast chain that filed in February. And the operator of Uno Chicago Grill emerged from bankruptcy protection last summer.
Ranked among the largest U.S. pizza operators, they are numbers 5, 10 and 11, respectively, with a combined 1,700 locations and $1.6 billion in sales, according to industry publication Pizza Today.
Giordano’s, one of the best-known chains for stuffed pizza in Chicago, filed for bankruptcy protection in February. Numerous smaller pizzerias also have slipped into financial trouble.