Leading fast-casual create-your-own pizza restaurant Uncle Maddio’s Pizza opened its first Northeast restaurant in New Jersey on Friday, March 10, 2017 at 346 NJ East 10, East Hanover, NJ 07936. Franchisee partners Ben Perez-Ringus and Dipen Desai are opening the restaurant with plans to bring two more Uncle Maddio’s Pizza restaurants to New Jersey by 2018.

Though an Atlanta-based brand, Uncle Maddio’s is New York-style pizza that uses an original thin-crust recipe acquired from a mom-and-pop pizza maker in Brooklyn back in 2008 when Uncle Maddio’s Pizza was founded.