2009-05-20
07:28:59
The owners of new Boston Pizza restaurant hope to be serving the first pizza to Fort Frances area customers in mid-October.
Yesterday, Dale and Elizabeth Fortes and their young daughter joined with local dignitaries in a ceremonial sod-turning to kick off construction.
Dale Fortes, a former assistant manager at the local Canada Safeway store, says the restaurant was an opportunity to return to the area.
"We always has a goal of coming back to Fort Frances," says Fortes. "We just had to find the right opportunity and this is it. We did a lot of research in terms of what kind of restaurant would work well here. The Boston Pizza brand with the Fort Frances market was a perfect relationship."
Fortes says they expect to hire between 60 and 100 people begin in July.
