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title: "Charleston Gazette-Mail: Leading Pizza Franchise Targets West Virginia for Development"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/fa46556c-fad4-4b3b-9fdb-27adf7318618
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/charleston-gazette-mail-leading-pizza-franchise-targets-west-virginia-for-development-7478
category: "Pizza"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Pizza"
published: 2016-11-08T22:17:12.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T03:08:33.059Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/83248a35af620c23101c44662f3807265378.jpg
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# Charleston Gazette-Mail: Leading Pizza Franchise Targets West Virginia for Development

**TL;DR:** Papa Murphy's plans to expand into Southern West Virginia with four new stores in the next one to three years. The company focuses on its unique Take 'N' Bake concept, where pizzas are not cooked in the store.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-11-08. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/charleston-gazette-mail-leading-pizza-franchise-targets-west-virginia-for-development-7478).*

## Story

Papa Murphy's is planning to expand into Southern West Virginia with a focus on opening four more stores within the next one to three years.

“We’re looking forward to partnering with the right people to help us develop the brand in the area,” Gary Payne, vice president of franchise sales for the company, told the Charleston Gazette-Mail. “So we’re excited, but there’s still a lot of work to do.”

The article provided background on the company with a focus on the unique Take 'N' Bake concept.

“Our brand is our take-and-bake product,” Payne told the Charleston Gazette-Mail. “We don’t cook it in the store. We don’t have any microwaves or ovens there, so we are pretty different from other pizza chains.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- location expansion (topic)
- Papa Murphy's (company)
- pizza concept (topic)
- Southern West Virginia (location)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/charleston-gazette-mail-leading-pizza-franchise-targets-west-virginia-for-development-7478). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/fa46556c-fad4-4b3b-9fdb-27adf7318618).