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“The existing location is one of our oldest original locations,” Cassano said. “We feel the community has been good to us, and we want to reinvest in that community.”
Cassano’s purchased the former Old Hickory Bar-B-Cue — later World Bar-B-Cue — and demolished the building in order to construct a new restaurant at the site. The new 2,000-square-foot restaurant will seat 38 in its dining room, Cassano said.
Founded in 1953, Cassano’s is Dayton’s oldest pizza chain. It operates 33 pizza shops and restaurants across the region.
In recent years, Cassano’s has faced increasing competition from new pizza chains and other regional chains entering the Dayton-area market for the first time, such as Rapid Fired Pizza, PizzaFire, Jet’s Pizza, and Dewey’s Pizza, among others.
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