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Aurelio's Pizza

Friday, January 6, 2012

UPDATED: Frankfort's Aurelio's, Parent Company Settle Infringement Suit

Details weren't disclosed, but Aurelio's Is Pizza Franchise and the owner of the chain's Frankfort location came to terms over a lawsuit claiming the owner sold improperly prepared frozen pizzas under Aurelio's name, the Chicago Tribune reports.

An Aurelio's Pizza franchise owner and the restaurant's parent company reached a settlement over a trademark infringement lawsuit that accused the Frankfort location of selling counterfeit pizzas at a fundraiser for the Homewood-Flossmoor High School girls’ field hockey team, according to a Chicago Tribune report. Kirk Mauriello, director of franchising for the Homewood-based Aurelio’s Is Pizza Franchise, wouldn't go into details about the settlement but said the company and Joseph Pascale, owner of the Frankfort franchise agreed to terms that would keep that location in the chain's system, the Tribune said. Mauriello said the company had received complaints and questions regarding the ingredients used in the pizzas Pascale provided for …

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Darnell

6:52 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Thank You Frank,, your comment said it all! It's pizza people,,Jeebus, get a life!!!   more ›

Monday, October 24, 2011

Aurelio's Files Infringement Lawsuit Against Franchise Operator

Lawsuit contends that the owner of the Frankfort Aurelio's improperly cooked up frozen pizzas under Aurelio's name and has a history of misusing the company's federally registered trademark.

A local Aurelio’s Pizza franchise operator has been accused of selling counterfeit pizzas at a fundraiser benefiting the Homewood-Flossmoor High School girls’ field hockey team. A lawsuit filed last week by Aurelio’s is Pizza, the restaurant’s parent company based in Homewood, contends that Joseph Pascale, owner of the Frankfort location, intentionally committed trademark infringement, dilution and counterfeiting when he contracted with Teresa Food Inc. to make machine-manufacture frozen pizzas with unauthorized ingredients. The pizzas were then wrongfully sold as Aurelio’s brand pizzas at a Homewood-Flossmoor High School athletic fundraiser on Oct. 7, according to Kirk Mauriello, Aurelio’s director of franchising. It "hurts our brand …

frank glio

10:35 am on Saturday, November 26, 2011

this amazes me that aurelios wants to take a franchise agreement away from a franchisee that has a large majority of sales...also i think this has alot to do with advertising and free publicity....it was on channel 2 news and joey aurelio has bragged many times about the article being on the news...heck he'll even show it to you on his i phone...really this could have been settleled over coffee …   more ›

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