A popular pizza chain is moving its headquarters from California to Georgia.
The Pasadena-based Blaze Pizza company said it plans to complete the move by September.
"Atlanta will serve as the headquarters for the company's operations, business development, marketing, finance, HR and other departments," the company said in a statement, ABC7.com reported.
There are more than 300 Blaze Pizza restaurants in 39 states, with one-third of them in California, where the company was founded in 2011, ABC7 reported. A 2022 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey showed Los Angeles County was the most expensive in Southern California for running a business.
"California is where this brand was born more than a decade ago, and we have tremendous heart for communities across the state where so many of our restaurants are. Moving our corporate headquarters to Atlanta will help us drive our next wave of growth," said Beto Guajardo, CEO of Blaze Pizza, the outlet reported.
The pizza chain works like a sandwich shop, where customers pick the ingredients they want on their pies, and the workers create them, KTLA.com reported.
The announcement comes as other chains in California have shuttered restaurants over a minimum wage controversy, according to the Daily Mail.
Nearly 10,000 positions across chains from Pizza Hut to Burger King have been cut since the law came into effect on April 1, the outlet reported, citing a report from a trade group.
When Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the minimum wage law in in 2023, he remarked that California was getting "one step closer to fairer wages, safer and healthier working conditions, and better training by giving hardworking fast food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table."
But Republican critics warned the hike would result in workers being replaced with self-checkouts and "robot cooks," the Daily Mail reported.
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