{"id":479375,"date":"2026-10-28T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:00:07","slug":"slice-house-by-tony-gemignani-pizzeria-in-frisco-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479375\/","title":{"rendered":"Slice House by Tony Gemignani pizzeria in Frisco closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A celebrity-chef-owned pizzeria from California has closed its only location in Texas: Slice House by Tony Gemignani<\/a>, the fast-casual pizza brand by world-renowned pizzaiolo Tony Gemignani, closed its first and only Texas location<\/a> in Frisco at 5995 Preston Rd. #102.<\/p>\n

A representative from the company’s corporate headquarters confirmed that the restaurant closed in mid-October, and that the concept was for now kaput in DFW.<\/p>\n

“The franchisee is no longer developing the DFW area,” the representative said.<\/p>\n

A second location<\/a> that was penciled in for McKinney at 7851 El Dorado Pkwy. is marked as “coming soon,” but a marketing spokesperson said that “at this time, we don\u2019t have an update on the opening timeline of McKinney.”<\/p>\n

The DFW franchisee was Daniel Hawkins, who also owns Black Hawk Brewery in Prosper, originally planned to open up to 20 locations. Hawkins was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n

Gemignani is the 13-time World Pizza Champion who, inspired by a pizzeria in Naples, Italy, opened the first Slice House \u2014 a fast-casual concept \u2014 in 2010, then began franchising in 2023. There are now 37 locations open and nine more marked as “coming soon.”<\/p>\n

The concept was unique in that it featured four styles of crust under one roof: traditional New York, homestyle Grandma, rustic Sicilian, and Detroit-style, all available by the slice<\/a> or in a whole pizza.<\/p>\n

Following a company tradition of creating a pizza specific to each location, they devised<\/a> a pizza for Frisco called the Texan with brisket, BBQ sauce, bacon, and onion.<\/p>\n

While pizza was the menu staple, the menu also comprised pasta, wings, and salads. Plus craft beers, premium wines, non-alcoholic sodas, and juices.<\/p>\n

According to the corporate rep, food was not the issue. The chain continues to expand, with recent openings in Idaho, Denver, Ventura, California, and Brentwood, Northern California.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it was a bad omen that the Frisco location’s debut<\/a> occurred in the thick of an epically bad ice storm, first opening on January 23, then closing due to inclement weather before reopening on January 28.<\/p>\n

“The Frisco location was never able to hit the ground running,” the representative said. “Location was a big part of it. The restaurant was on the wrong side of the highway.”<\/p>\n

He said that the closure presented a good opportunity for someone to come in and purchase “lightly used assets for a fraction of the cost,” and that the company was also in conversation with another operator who’d expressed interest in the concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A celebrity-chef-owned pizzeria from California has closed its only location in Texas: Slice House by Tony Gemignani, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6980,148025,2808,745,7048,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-479375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-chefs","tag-chefs","tag-closings","tag-pizza","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}