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July 25, 2014

Portland-based Otto Pizza launching eighth store

file Photo/Rebeca Goldfine A 2009 photo of Otto Pizza's 576 Congress St. location in Portland.

Otto Pizza, a Portland-based pizza chain founded in 2009, is opening its second location in South Portland this August, making it the company's eighth store in New England.

The pizza chain will open a 30-seat restaurant early next month at 125 John Roberts Rd., The Forecaster reported, according to a recently approved liquor license application.

The new location will be Otto's fourth in the greater Portland area. The pizza chain also has four spots in Massachusetts, including one in Boston and two in Cambridge.

Just five months after Otto opened its first restaurant in July 2009, the eatery had already reached its annual sales goal, the owners told Mainebiz at the time. They attributed the faster-than-expected sales to what they described as a simple and highly efficient formula, which partly consisted of their $3 price tag for individual slices and a laser-sharp focus on providing pizza — and not much else.

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