Vocelli Pizza

Vocelli Pizza is a regional pizza restaurant chain and franchisor that focuses on delivery, carryout, and neighborhood-oriented stores. Its restaurants serve a broad menu built around hand-tossed pizza, subs, wings, pasta, salads, and desserts, with formats that work in in-line spaces, end caps, and small freestanding buildings. The concept fits naturally into everyday retail settings that draw steady residential and student traffic, and it has a long operating history as a stable quick-service user.

The company was founded in 1988 in Pennsylvania as an Italian-style pizza shop with an emphasis on made-to-order food and consistent quality. From that single concept, Vocelli Pizza gradually expanded through franchising across Pennsylvania and into nearby states, including Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic and selected Southeast markets. As of October 2021, Vocelli Pizza had reached 88 locations with the opening of a franchise store in Owings Mills, Maryland, a milestone that reflected the brand’s ability to grow outside its original home markets while keeping a regional focus.

Over the last five years, Vocelli Pizza has continued to evolve from a local pizza chain into a more structured regional franchised system. The company has invested in digital ordering, including web and mobile app platforms, to support delivery and carryout and to capture repeat business. It has also sharpened its development strategy around infill in existing states and measured entry into adjacent markets, relying on franchisees to drive most new-unit growth. As of early 2025, public statements highlight new store openings in Pennsylvania and plans for additional franchised units in the same year, signaling that the brand remains in expansion mode rather than in consolidation.

Today, Vocelli Pizza operates primarily as a franchise system under Vocelli Pizza Inc., supported by a corporate team based in Pittsburgh. The chain’s footprint, as of October 2021, stood at 88 stores, with additional locations added since then through ongoing franchise development. With more than three decades in business, a consistent neighborhood-oriented format, and active interest in new sites across the Mid-Atlantic and select Southeast markets, Vocelli Pizza presents landlords, brokers, and developers with a recognizable, delivery-forward restaurant tenant that can bring reliable evening and late-night traffic to neighborhood centers, grocery-anchored strips, and retail near college campuses.