Homemade Pizza Abruptly Shutters All Stores

Homemade Pizza Company, which had several stores on the North Shore, abruptly shuttered all its shops May 30, according to an article in Crain’s Chicago Business.

Co-founder Eric Fosse, who stared the business in 1997 with his brother-in-law Matthew Weinstein, wrote an email to friends saying that the “large outside investors” the company brought in several years ago embraced a strategy that did not succeed, according to Crain’s.

The chain had nearly 40 stores in the Midwest and East Coast, about half of them in the Chicago area, Crain’s reports.

Fosse, who lives in Glencoe and owns Guildhall Restaurant there, said he has not been involved in the company for two years, according to an article in the Glencoe News.

Glencoe’s village manager said he had no warning about the closure, according to the article.

Homemade Pizza also had stores in Evanston, Glenview, Winnetka and Lake Forest.

You can read the full Crain’s article here.

You can read the full Glencoe News article here.