Italian chain eyeing Kettering location for second Dayton-area restaurant

Business
By Mark Fisher
Aug 16, 2012
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The Piada Italian Street Food chain that we first told you about back in March is eyeing a Kettering location on Far Hills Avenue near Shroyer Road for its second Dayton-area restaurant.

The Kettering Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing at its meeting on Monday, Aug. 20, on a final development plan for a new Piada Italian restaurant that would be located in an out lot in front of The Arbor shopping center at 4397 Far Hills Ave.

Piada spokeswoman Meghan Dauer said the Columbus-based chain “is interested in having a restaurant in Kettering. However, there is an approval process we must go through first. We are about 60 days away from knowing whether or not we will be able to move forward.”

The first Dayton-area Piada currently under construction at 1047 Miamisburg-Centerville Road in the Township Square shopping center in Washington Twp. is scheduled to open in October or November, Dauer said. “We will have a better target date in a couple of weeks,” Dauer said.

The Piada concept, featuring custom-rolled wraps, pasta bowls and salads, is the brainchild of Chris Doody, co-founder of the Bravo and Brio Italian restaurant chains. Doody said in March that he chose Dayton as the first expansion of Piada outside of the Columbus area because the Dayton area “has been a great market for Brio and Bravo.”

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Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.