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title: "BizWest: Toppers Pizza Heads West to Colorado"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/7940f8d2-ecb0-49da-b67e-336a70b2e06a
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/bizwest-toppers-pizza-heads-west-to-colorado-4934
category: "Pizza"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Pizza"
topics: ["Development & multi-unit"]
published: 2016-06-14T22:17:50.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T13:05:20.996Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/a61a67f36cd3a50cdb74a152e71ac39a8521160614173750.jpeg
---

# BizWest: Toppers Pizza Heads West to Colorado

**TL;DR:** Toppers Pizza plans to expand to Colorado and Wyoming with a goal of having 700 locations in the United States within 10 years. The expansion will start in Boulder and Fort Collins, specifically near Colorado State University and The University of Colorado.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-06-14. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/bizwest-toppers-pizza-heads-west-to-colorado-4934).*

## Story

Todd Geatches and Clayton Hartman of Rocky Top Management Inc. will be bringing Toppers Pizza to Colorado and Wyoming for the first time.

They plan to expand to Boulder and Fort Collins to start, specifically near Colorado State University and The University of Colorado, as these areas fit the brand's key demographic.

“Toppers focuses on the millennial group, which is now the gold standard for the food business,” Geatches told BizWest.

Geatches and Hartman plan to begin by opening 13 Toppers Pizza restaurants in cities north of C-470 with a population of 20,00 or more.

These locations are part of the brand's plans to have 700 in the United States within 10 years,Toppers Pizza Director of Franchise Development, Mark Cairns said.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- franchise development (topic)
- location expansion (topic)
- Colorado (location)
- Toppers Pizza (company)
- Wyoming (location)
- Fort Collins (location)
- Boulder (location)
- Colorado State University (location)
- The University of Colorado (location)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/bizwest-toppers-pizza-heads-west-to-colorado-4934). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/7940f8d2-ecb0-49da-b67e-336a70b2e06a).