Ledo Pizza

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Ledo Pizza is a pizzeria restaurant chain extending from Maryland to Florida, with the heaviest concentration in Maryland and Virginia. Their first pizzeria was opened in Adelphi, Maryland, in 1955 on University Boulevard (Maryland Route 193) near the University of Maryland, College Park. The first franchise restaurant opened in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 1979. There are now over 80 restaurants in Ledo Pizza's home state of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, West Virginia, Delaware, and Florida.

In October 2006, Ledo Pizza was rated #33 on the Pizza Today Top 100 Companies list with 2005 gross sales of $68,530,000 from its 77 restaurants.^[1] Ledo Pizza was named one of the best pizzas in the nation on The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[2]

Ledo Pizza is rectangular in shape and is known for its very thin crust, sweet sauce, and smoked provolone cheese, often using the tagline "Ledo Pizza is square, because we don't cut corners."

While most of its restaurants do not offer delivery options, you can sit down and eat or carry out, differing from most pizza restaurants. When eating at the restaurant, customers are served by a waiter or waitress, rather than receiving the food over the counter. Also, Ledo offers many menu items, such as hamburgers, pasta, its own beer line (Ledo Lager), and more, in addition to specialty pizza types usually offered by pizza chains such as Pizza Hut or Papa John's.

The restaurant chain has been called by several names, including Ledo Pizza, and Ledo Pizza and Pasta.

The original location in Adelphi, MD, appears to now be called "Tommy Marcos' Ledo Restaurant." The Ledo Pizza System website does not list an Adelphi or College Park location in their restaurant finder. There is now a legal dispute between the Ledo chain and the Marcos family.^[2]