Cici's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced its sale to D&G Investors. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the downfall of all-you-can-eat buffets. In bankruptcy filings, Cici's said that it had between $10 million and $50 million in assets and $50 million to $100 million in liabilities.

The new branding - Cicis - removes the chain name's apostrophe and replaces the previous tagline of “Better. Believe It.” with “Beyond Pizza.”

C.C. Pazzini is the new fictional spokesperson for Cicis Pizza.

In November 2015, the company began a new marketing campaign which included the renaming of the company to Cicis (by dropping the apostrophe, making the second 'C' lowercase and dropping the word 'pizza' from its name), along with the addition of a new logo and redesigned website. CiCi Enterprises Inc.

Back in the '90s, McDonald's struggled to speedily serve up pizza. In the drive-thru-centric world of fast-food in 2020, adding pizza would be even more difficult. The chain has been simplifying its menu, with franchisees and employees pushing for a permanent retirement for All Day Breakfast.

Cicis operates just over 300 locations, or about 25% fewer than the 420 it operated at the end of 2019, and about half of where it was at the chain's 2009 peak. Cicis system sales in the five years going into the pandemic averaged a 2.4% decline, according to data from Restaurant Business sister company Technomic.

Make pizza, not war. Happiness is a slice of pizza in each hand. You can't buy happiness but you can buy pizza, and that's kind of the same thing.

Pizza (English: /ˈpiːtsə/ PEET-sə, Italian: [ˈpittsa], Neapolitan: [ˈpittsə]) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, ...

four inches tall The man's name was Papa Pazzini and luckily for the little one, Papa had a very big heart. He took the child in and raised him as his own. Cosmo Coluccio (C.C. for short) grew up working alongside Papa Pazzini in the pizzeria, although he mysteriously never grew more than four inches tall.

In 1985, Cicis opened its doors for the very first time in Plano, Texas – and just like that, the Original home of all the pizza, pasta, salad, and desserts you can eat was born.

Joe Croce Cicis was founded in 1985 by Joe Croce and Mike Cole in Plano, Texas. In 2001, with 363 restaurants at the time, the chain expanded its buffet offerings and began remodeling restaurants.

The McPizza lineage traces back to the 1980s, when it started as a whole pie that was served at your table on a pizza rack. The product became a personal-sized pizza in 1991 and lingered on the menu at hundreds of the chain's U.S. stores until nearly 2000, but it never really caught on.