Hangar 54 Pizza

The vendor opportunity at Hangar 54 Pizza

Hangar 54 Pizza operates 173 total units, of which 165 are franchised and 8 are company-owned. The brand added units at a rate of 1.852% year-over-year, indicating slow but steady expansion. For a software vendor, the immediate addressable market is those 173 locations, concentrated in a handful of states—Missouri (9 units), Texas (8), Kentucky (8), North Dakota (6), and Oklahoma (6). The operator footprint is entirely single-unit: 89 mapped operators run exactly one location each, with no multi-unit operators on file. This fragmentation means any enterprise software sale must win over headquarters, not a dominant franchisee group.

Who controls software purchasing

According to FDD Item 1, the buying center sits at the corporate level. Shawn Burcham serves as President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kyle Menges is the Chief Financial Officer. These two executives are the most likely decision-makers for any technology purchase affecting the system. Julie Ann Burcham (Company Secretary), Carla Dowden (SVP, People Success), and Brock Blaise (SVP of Operations) round out the leadership team and may influence operational or HR-tech decisions. There is no parent company; the brand appears independently owned, so no external corporate overlord complicates the sale.

Mandated and current tech stack

The 2026 FDD does not capture any mandated or recommended technology systems. No POS provider, no back-office platform, no delivery aggregator, no loyalty vendor is named. This absence of a disclosed tech mandate can cut two ways for a vendor: it may signal an open, non-prescriptive environment where franchisees choose their own tools, or it may simply mean the franchisor has not formalized its tech requirements in the FDD. Either way, a vendor’s first conversation should probe what systems are actually in place at the eight company-owned locations, since those units often serve as a proving ground before a system-wide rollout.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 of the FDD—which typically describes procurement obligations, designated suppliers, and rebate structures—yielded no extract. Without that signal, we cannot confirm whether Hangar 54 Pizza operates a closed designated-supplier model or an open approved-supplier framework. Similarly, Item 17, covering renewal, termination, and transfer, provided no extract, so the initial franchise term and renewal windows remain undisclosed. For a software vendor, this lack of public procurement data means timing a pitch is difficult. The most practical trigger is the brand’s unit growth: at 1.852% annually, new locations may create incremental software needs, but no large-scale refresh cycle is evident from the FDD.

How to read the Hangar 54 Pizza FDD

The Franchise Disclosure Document for Hangar 54 Pizza was filed with state franchise regulators in 2026. It contains the standard 23 items, including the franchisor’s background, fees, initial investment estimates, and obligations. For a software vendor, the most actionable sections are Item 1 (executives), Item 8 (procurement restrictions), Item 11 (franchisor assistance and required technology), and Item 17 (renewal and termination). Because the FDD omits specific tech mandates and procurement rules, a close read of Item 11 may still reveal general support obligations that hint at the existing stack. The full document is embedded below for your review.

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