Franchisee Voices: Matt Iwaszkiewicz Of Your Pie

I’ve lived in the Columbus area for 16 years, working in software sales. My wife, Katie, is a homemaker, but we used to own and operate a Sport Clips*, which she ran. We owned Sport Clips for five years and sold the business in 2010 looking to do something different. I will continue my full time job and we'll have a general manager to run the day-to-day operations of our Your Pie.

We were looking into investing with a new franchise concept and I loved the fast casual pizza segment, which is booming right now. I am perpetually hungry and when I found out about Your Pie through an online search, I was impressed. It was a compelling concept and message, we liked the corporate team and loved that we were getting in just as the business is starting to explode, leaving room for growth.

We do plan on expanding. This will be the anchor store and we would like to develop the Columbus market. Columbus has become a huge foodie town and the demographics of the community lends itself it to craft beer and pizza mindset. We’ll be opening the first location in the gentrified and popular Grandview neighborhood near downtown.

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