As for your comment about not finding a great pizza in Minnesota, you must be going to the wrong places. I have traveled all over the country and have found some of the best in MN. Just to name a few…. in Rochester, MN, Mr. Pizza and Billotti’s are superb. In Mankato, Gary’s Pizza and Pagliai’s are great.

We’re over-saturated with all chain restaurants of any kind here. What we need more of are non-chains that aren’t trying to do over-extended business from the get go in overpriced locations that the businesses can’t support — like Copper Bleu.

Kim and I have been back to Satay2Go numerous times since my first visit (including tonight) and have found the owners to be friendly, caring and really in touch with everything that’s going on in the local (metro-based) restaurant business. If only we could find more just like them.

I’m not sure how it compares HomeMade Pizza Company, but it seems like we are pretty close to saturation on take & bake pizzas in that area, with Papa Murphy’s and Broadway within a block or two.