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casa restaurants group

Local Favorite
With generous portions and friendly service, Casa Restaurants Group says it
has established itself as a beloved fixture in its community. By Alan Dorich

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Casa Restaurants Group operates several distinct restaurants in the Fort Wayne, Ind., area, including Casa Mare, which specializes in seafood entrees, such as Salmon Caccia (pictured).

brick pizza ovens and wood-fired grills

C
asa Restaurants Group has nurtured a loyal customer base
in the Fort Wayne, Ind., market for more than three decades, and rotisseries, while its Casa Mare
Operator and owner Jim Casaburo says. Its following is so restaurant serves a seafood menu.
devoted that the company does not have many competitors, In all of its restaurants, the company’s
he says. most popular dish is its Casaburo salad,
“Whenever a new restaurant opens in town, ‘It’s not Casa,’ is what I which features romaine and iceberg let-
hear [from people],” Casaburo says. “We are very loved by the Fort tuce, red peppers, onions and its “secret”
Wayne [community].” Casa dressing. “We sell over 12,000 sal-
Casaburo’s father, Tom Casaburo, founded the com- ads a week,” Casaburo says.
company profile pany with his friend, Jimmy D’Angelo, in 1977.
Casa Restaurants Group Initially, the two opened the Casa D’Angelo Italian A ‘Passionate’ Business
www.casarestaurants.net restaurant, which provided family friendly service and Casaburo joined his family’s company in
2007 sales: Approximately $14
million generous portions to customers. 1990, after working for Starbucks Corp.
Headquarters: Fort Wayne, Ind. Today, the company is in its second generation of and Schwinn Bicycle Co. in Chicago. He
Employees: 456
Specialty: Italian food family ownership and has several other concepts in says he enjoys the restaurant industry,
Jim Casaburo, owner and opera- Fort Wayne. These include Casa! Ristorante, which which gives him “a legal high. There’s
tor: “We are very loved by the
Fort Wayne [community].” serves pizzas, pastas, and steak, chicken, fish and veal no other business that’s as fast-paced
entrees. Its Casa Grille restaurants, which feature or different from day to day,” Casaburo

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