street food industry restaurants founded 2010 founder chris doody headquarters columbus ohio u.s. number of locations 27 area served indiana michigan minnesota ohio texas website mypiada.com piada italian street food is a fast casual italian cuisine restaurant chain with 27 locations in six states kentucky ohio michigan indiana minnesota and texas and 6 to be opened as of 2016 . 1 there are seventeen locations in ohio two in michigan two in indiana two in minnesota and four in texas . the restaurant features custom rolled wraps in a stone grilled thin crusted dough made from organic flour and extra virgin olive oil as well as chopped salads and bowls . 2 the chain features food prepared along an assembly line and has been called an italian copycat of chipotle mexican grill . 3 chris doody owner of the company is a co founder of the bravo brio restaurant group chain . 2 he sold his stake to investors in 2006 and launched the piada concept around the italian wrap like sandwich known as a piada or piadina a street food he sampled in northern italy . it is stuffed with pastas meats cheeses sauce and vegetables . 4 5 piada also serves pasta bowls chopped salads chips and dip soups and cannoli chips a dessert item . there is a kids menu featuring smaller versions of the main menu items . 6 see also edit piadina list of italian restaurants references edit piada locations piada company locations a b mark fisher new italian restaurant chain march 28 2012 dayton daily news chipotle fundamentally sound but overvalued nonetheless april 3 2012 seeking alpha dan eaton new piada hopes diners beat path to italian fare august 6 2010 columbus business first pamela willis piada s third location lands in gahanna june 17 2011 columbus local news suburban news publications piada menu piada menu on mypiada.com external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title piada italian street food & oldid 741802880 categories fast food chains of the united statesitalian american cuisineitalian american culture in ohioitalian restaurantsrestaurants in ohiofast casual restaurants navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 19 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view