Marie Callender's Franchise Opportunity

About Marie Callender's

There are 139 Marie Callender's restaurants and 1 East Side Mario's restaurant in the United States and Mexico with more on the way. Marie's commitment to freshly prepared foods using only the highest-quality ingredients still endures. Marie Callender's serves up a wide variety of classic American foods updated with today's flavors, including their signature Famous Pot Pies, Freshly Roasted Turkey Dinner, St. Louis Bourbon BBQ Ribs and Gorgonzola, Pecan and Field Greens Salad.

Each restaurant also features a Salad Bar, freshly prepared home-style soups and signature cornbread, baked fresh and served hot from the oven. Most locations offer a fabulous all-you-care-to-enjoy Sunday Brunch Buffet as well. Come relax with a glass of wine or beer, then top off your dinner with a cup of Marie's Special House Blend Coffee. And remember—we started their business with legendary pies. So be sure to leave room for pie—you can choose from over 30 handmade varieties.

Company History

It all started with dessert. The legacy of Marie Callender began in the early 1940s in Orange County, California, when Marie, an accomplished baker, first launched her legendary pie business, delivering freshly baked pies to area restaurants. By 1948 with the help of her husband Cal and son Don, they turned this home-based bakery into a bona fide business complete with a wholesale bakery.

Within a few years, Marie was making over 200 pies daily and had acquired a truck and a mixer. The first pie and coffee shop was opened in 1964 in Orange, California, by Marie's son, Don. Other pie shops soon followed and in 1969, the pie shops began serving a full-service restaurant menu with many recipes created by Marie herself.

This web page does not constitute a franchise offering or an offer to sell a franchise. A franchise offering can be made by us only in a state if we are first registered, excluded, exempted or otherwise qualified to offer franchises in that state, and only if we provide you with an appropriate franchise disclosure document.