[Town name] House of Pizza

[hotdogPi]

Is this a New England thing, or is it across the United States?

(All examples are from Massachusetts unless otherwise specified)

Ipswich House of Pizza: MA 1A/133 near Market St.
Lowell House of Pizza: Intersection of Broadway Street and School Street (unnumbered)
Merrimac House of Pizza: MA 110 near Broad St.
Methuen House of Pizza: MA 110 (not 110/113 overlap), eastern segment
Reading House of Pizza: MA 28 near Franklin St.
Salem House of Pizza (NH): Intersection of NH 28 and NH 97
Wakefield House of Pizza: North Ave. (unnumbered)

Interestingly, I found Giovanni's to be about as common, despite not being a chain.

[freebrickproductions]

The only one I'm aware of in my part of Alabama is a place called "Madison House of Pizza" in Madison, AL.

[spooky]

I find "Nick's" to be a common name for pizza places in New England.

[PHLBOS]

You forgot Marblehead House of Pizza on Atlantic Ave. and (a RI entry) Bristol House of Pizza along State St. (near RI 114/Hope St.).

[Brandon]

Must be a New England thing.  We don't tend to do that here in the Midwest.  Most independent pizza places are named for their owner.

[spooky]

You forgot Marblehead House of Pizza on Atlantic Ave. and (a RI entry) Bristol House of Pizza along State St. (near RI 114/Hope St.).

also
Braintree House of Pizza on Washington Street in South Braintree Square
Quincy House of Pizza on Washington Street
Weymouth House of Pizza on Broad Street

...and countless more.

[froggie]

Must be a New England thing.  We don't tend to do that here in the Midwest.  Most independent pizza places are named for their owner.

We tend to get both up here.  [town name] House of Pizza is common, but so are other names.  We have four pizza places in Lyndonville alone (to say nothing of other towns), and some town general stores in Vermont also do pizza.

[1995hoo]

The weirdest one I saw was on the Strøget in Copenhagen: Manhattan Deep Pan Pizza House. Who ever heard of deep pan pizza in New York?!

[english si]

Who ever heard of deep pan pizza in New York?!

Big Al has.

In the UK, if there's some sort of country branding then Deep Pan (which isn't the same as Chicago Pizza, but is merely a thick base) tends to be branded with US things, whereas Thin Crust tends to be branded with Italian things. I'd imagine that it is the same throughout Europe that Deep Pan is seen as American, and thus New York is fair branding (just like how my local Chinese, has 'Beijing' in its name, but most of the menu is Anglofied Cantonese, as are the owners).

[jp the roadgeek]

Might be House of Pizza in most of New England, but in my town it's Pizza House.  Been there for almost 60 years.  Also have a Giovanni's in town as well (the second one.  The first one, totally unrelated, is a Thai restaurant now).

Also find Pizza Palace to be quite common.  Also have a pair of unrelated Napoli Pizzas in bordering towns, as well as unrelated Paradise Pizzas in neighboring towns (one has a meatball grinder with enough garlic that you'll taste it when you burp days later).

[GCrites]

Is this a New England thing, or is it across the United States?

(All examples are from Massachusetts unless otherwise specified)

Ipswich House of Pizza: MA 1A/133 near Market St.
Lowell House of Pizza: Intersection of Broadway Street and School Street (unnumbered)
Merrimac House of Pizza: MA 110 near Broad St.
Methuen House of Pizza: MA 110 (not 110/113 overlap), eastern segment
Reading House of Pizza: MA 28 near Franklin St.
Salem House of Pizza (NH): Intersection of NH 28 and NH 97
Wakefield House of Pizza: North Ave. (unnumbered)

Interestingly, I found Giovanni's to be about as common, despite not being a chain.

Giovanni's actually is a chain in the OH, KY and WV tri-state.

[wanderer2575]

I've never seen House of Pizza in any town. 

What I do see in every town is a place proclaiming that theirs is the "Best Pizza in Town."  And like P.T. Barnum's sucker, I always order one.  And it's always disappointing.

[TravelingBethelite]

It's just like Budget Inn. They're everywhere, but are all related by only name.

[roadman]

Wakefield House of Pizza: North Ave. (unnumbered)

Actually, Wakefield House of Pizza is on Tuttle Street, not North Ave.

[triplemultiplex]

Must be more of a Northeast thing.

[Max Rockatansky]

Must be more of a Northeast thing.

Wasn't that supposed to be more of a play off of Big Boy's?  That one was always more of a Midwest thing.

[jakeroot]

Must be more of a Northeast thing.

Wasn't that supposed to be more of a play off of Big Boy's?  That one was always more of a Midwest thing.

Seems to be more of a play off of Bob's Big Boy, very much a southern-California chain:



EDIT: Seems as though this Big Boy symbol is common throughout the US. Though I believe the southern California chain was the first to use the symbol.

[Max Rockatansky]

Must be more of a Northeast thing.

Wasn't that supposed to be more of a play off of Big Boy's?  That one was always more of a Midwest thing.

Seems to be more of a play off of Bob's Big Boy, very much a southern-California chain:



EDIT: Seems as though this Big Boy symbol is common throughout the US. Though I believe the southern California chain was the first to use the symbol.

Yeah I'm fairly certain that the Big Boy statue got pretty universal between all the chains by the 1980s.  Basically Michigan is really the only big strong hold for Big Boy these days, I want to say there is a half dozen Bob's Big Boys left in California?

[briantroutman]

Seems to be more of a play off of Bob's Big Boy, very much a southern-California chain:

"Bob"  refers to Bob Wian, the founder of the first Big Boy restaurant which was in Glendale. But after that, the Big Boy name, character, and eponymous double decker burger were licensed to a number of franchisees across the country, leading to a number of loosely affiliated Big Boys across the nation. When Marriott bought the national Big Boy organization in the late '60s, they used the Bob's Big Boy name as the default for a number of locations not part of one of the regional operating companies (like Frisch's Big Boy, Shoney's Big Boy, or Marc's Big Boy).

There are, I think, four locations in greater LA and a few more around Riverside, but other than the "Beatles sat here"  type of nostalgia at the Burbank location, I think Big Boy is much more closely aligned with the memories of Middle America (culturally and geographically).