Beloved pizza chain files 4th Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a year

The pizza eating assemblage has dealt with an manufacture downturn implicit the past 2 years, forcing large pizza chains to adjacent 100s of locations and, successful immoderate cases, record for bankruptcy.

Among the economical issues, restaurants blasted fierce competition, rising labour and nutrient costs, and precocious lease rates that person required respective companies to motorboat restructurings.

A fashionable San Francisco-based pizza concatenation has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the 4th clip successful a year, underscoring the aggravated fiscal unit facing autarkic restaurants.

Wood-fired pizza restaurant chain Fiorella, with 4 locations successful San Francisco, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the 4th clip to reorganize different determination and proceed operating.

Fiorella's Noe Valley determination astatine 4042 24th Street, known arsenic Project Pizza Noe LLC, filed its Chapter 11 petition successful the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California connected March 6, 2026, according to PacerMonitor.

The Noe Valley filing follows 3 Chapter 11 filings by Fiorella's Project Pizza genitor companies successful 2025.

Project Pizza Polk LLC, which operates the chain’s pizza and Italian edifice determination Fiorella Polk astatine 2238 Polk Street, filed its Subchapter V petition connected July 2, 2025, successful the Northern District of California, listing $100,000 to $500,000 successful assets and $1 cardinal to $10 cardinal successful liabilities successful its petition.

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Affiliate Project Pizza LLC, which operates the pizza chain's flagship location, Fiorella Clement, located astatine 2339 Clement Street, filed a Subchapter V petition connected May 20, 2025, listing $50,000 to $100,000 successful assets and $1 cardinal to $10 cardinal successful liabilities successful its petition.

Another affiliate, Project Pizza Sunset LLC, filed a Chapter 11 Subchapter V petition connected April 1, 2025, connected behalf of its Fiorella Sunset determination astatine 1240 9th Avenue.

The restaurant chain did not uncover reasons for filing the bankruptcy petitions.

Fiorella's partners Boris Nemchenok and Brandon Gillis opened the archetypal determination connected Clement Street successful 2016, followed by the Russian Hill determination connected Polk Street successful 2019. The partners opened the Sunset determination successful 2021 and Noe Valley edifice successful 2024.

Other pizza chains that filed for bankruptcy successful 2025 included Bertucci’s Restaurants, which filed for Chapter 11 extortion connected April 24, 2025, and Backdraughts, filing connected July 23, 2025.