Company: SZZL
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-024211
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Company: Sizzle Acquisition Corp. II
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: S-1
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 across the country, and Honeymoon Chicken. Federalist Pig and Honeymoon Chicken have won multiple Michelin 3 Bib Gourmand awards. The Salis brands are perceived as having a high price/value correlation which Salis believes engenders consumer loyalty and frequency. Salis believes that the data collected from a multi -brandcompany offers a deeper dive into consumer analytics than that of a single brand. To further diversify its holdings, Salis, through its real estate company, acquires real estate including some of the real estate of certain of its restaurant brands and is seeking to acquire additional real estate as part of its overall strategy. Prior to 2015, Mr. Salis co -founded&pizza, a successful fast casual pizza brand which delivers individual pizzas, cooked within 3 minutes, using fresh ingredients. Mr.Salis co -founded&pizza in July 2011 and served as its CEO from July 2011 to March 2015. As co -founderand CEO of & pizza, he toured different cities across the country to launch the brand and picked Washington, D.C. as the company’s home base. There he opened the first few units which quickly resonated with consumers and thereafter over the next few years scaled highly productive units in multiple markets. As CEO, he assembled successful leadership teams, implemented business and personnel evaluation tools and communicated on a regular basis with the investment community. All of this resulted in the business attracting capital from institutional investors. Mr. Salis sold his equity position in 2019. Prior to co -founding&pizza, Mr. Salis nurtured his entrepreneurial spirit in New York City where he worked in the restaurant and hospitality space learning the business from the ground up. There he learned how to evaluate key operating metrics for restaurant and hospitality companies and used those skills to buy and sell restaurants and bars. Our Non -ExecutiveVice -Chairmanis Jamie Karson, who served as Non -ExecutiveVice -Chairmanof Sizzle I, and has served as Executive Chairman of Salis since June 2018, where he and Mr. Salis work closely together. Previously Mr. Karson served as Chairman and CEO of Steve Madden, Ltd., which is an international footwear and apparel wholesaler and retailer with a $3billion market cap. Mr. Karson joined Steve Madden at a time when the company was in turmoil. During Mr. Karson’s initial years as CEO, he stabilized the company and its stock price, retained key leaders throughout the