Portsmouth Papa Gino's Closes

PORTSMOUTH, NH -- Pizza chain Papa Gino's, a New England institution since the 1960s, on Sunday closed about 50 restaurants across New England -- including one in Portsmouth. The Portsmouth Papa Gino's at 2800 Lafayette Road was shuttered. A recorded telephone message said, "This restaurant is now permanently closed."

Papa Gino's also closed restaurants in Nashua and Manchester.

The closures left Papa Gino's with 12 locations in New Hampshire: Concord, Derry, Dover, Gilford, Hudson, Londonderry, Manchester, Merrimack, Plaistow, Rochester, Salem and Seabrook. Eighty-five other Papa Gino's restaurants across New England also remained open.

Dedham, Massachusetts-based Papa Gino's was founded in 1961 and grew to more than 100 restaurants across New England. The company also owns the D'Angelo sandwich chain and some of those restaurants also closed Sunday -- including the Nashua D'Angleo. That left D'Angelo with locations in Concord (two), Manchester (two), Portsmouth, Keene and Laconia.

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