Pat's Pizza
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| Pat's Pizza | |
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 Mill Street in Orono, Maine, location of the original restaurant | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1931 |
| Location | Maine, United States |
| Website | patsyarmouth |
Pat's Pizza is a chain of restaurants in Maine, United States. The chain was started in 1931, when Carl D. "Pat" Farnsworth bought the ice-cream store in Orono, in which he had worked as a high-schooler.[1] In 1953, he added pizza to the menu, and it was such a hit that he changed Farnsworth's Cafe into a pizza parlor, giving it its current name.[2] It eventually grew to 13 locations, covering the state. The original store was known as a "second home to generations of University of Maine students".[3] In 1993, Farnsworth reported that 250,000 pizzas a year were being sold from the Orono location alone.[4]
Farnsworth died in 2003, aged 90.[5]
As of March 2026[update], Pat's Pizza has locations across Maine, including Orono, Machias, Dover-Foxcroft, Portland, Yarmouth, Presque Isle, Brunswick, and Hampden.[6]
