Pizza Pizza introduces pasta

TORONTO—Pizza Pizza is testing pasta.

The chain announced this month that it had put three family-size delivery pasta dishes on the menu at stores across Ontario, after testing them in more than 20 restaurants in Mississauga.

If consumer feedback is positive, the pasta will be rolled out chain-wide early this year.

The new dishes are: “tortellini’s jumbo cousin” totelloni alfredo, penne Bolognese, and macaroni and cheese.

Customers are being encouraged to provide their feedback in stores, on the corporate website and on Pizza Pizza’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

Pizza Pizza has more than 600 restaurants coast to coast under the Pizza Pizza and Pizza 73 banners.

Last February, Pizza Hut began delivering its Tuscani Pasta after a successful launch in the United States.

Initially, it offered three pounds of oven baked rotini, in meaty marinara and creamy chicken alfredo varieties.

Subsequently it added chicken pomodoro noodles, fettuccine alfredo, chicken fettuccine alfredo, lasagna, spaghetti and meat sauce, and spaghetti and tomato sauce.