Round Table Pizza

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Round Table Pizza

Founded	1959 Menlo Park, California, United States
Founder(s)	William R. Larson
Headquarters	Concord, California, United States
Number of locations	500+

Original Round Table in Menlo Park

Round Table Pizza is a large chain of pizza parlors in the western United States. The company's headquarters are located in Concord, California.^[1]

History

The company was founded in 1959 by William R. Larson Sr.(1933-2006)^[2][3] The company opened its first restaurant in Menlo Park, California.^[4]

In 1961 a friend of Larson's drew some sketches of members of King Arthur's court eating pizza, and Mr. Larson then adopted the King Arthur theme for his restaurants.^[2] The three shields in the official logo were added in 1970, and are intended to symbolize the letters "F-U-N".^[2] Round Table Pizza began to expand through franchising. Larson sold his restaurants to a group of investors in 1979.^[5]

From around 2003 until 2005, Round Table Pizza's official mascots were two puppets, Matt and Marcus, appearing in the company's past television commercials.^[6][7] In the third quarter of 2007, Round Table Pizza's mascot became the Pizza Knight, "defender of family night".^[8] The current spokesperson features the "pizza whisperer".

As of 2007 there were more than 500 franchised and company-owned locations,^[4] located in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Until June 2008, Round Table Pizza operated stores in Idaho.^[9]

References

External links

• Round Table Pizza website.