Pizza Marketplace.com:
Straw Hat Pizza will open several new units in California in the first quarter of 2011.
The locations, all franchised, will be developed in Alameda, Chatsworth, Livermore, Sacramento, San Jose, San Pablo and Vallejo.
The Alameda Straw Hat Pizza will be operated by franchisees Varun and Mitul Limbachiya. Gary and Harminder Toor will open a location in Chatsworth, and Prem Dhoot, a franchisee who recently opened Straw Hat Pizza Walnut Creek, will open a new location in Livermore.