While some restaurant chains are downsizing, Fazoli's is opening 22 restaurants nationwide — including one in Snellville.

A news release said the Macon-based Fazoli's, owned by Allen Peake, celebrated a record-breaking grand opening week with more than $80,000 in sales.

"Now is the perfect time to be franchising with Fazoli's," said Peake in the release. "Having been a former franchisee back in the 1990s, I was eager to come back under [CEO Carl Howard's] leadership. The company is on an upward path, which is evident in the immediate success we experienced in Macon; the community's response to first learning about Fazoli's return had been overwhelmingly positive and they are loving the revitalized brand."

Peake told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he plans to open another Fazoli's in Warner Robins in about four weeks.

That's right: not only is state Rep. Allen Peake a proponent for legalizing medical marijuana, he's a proponent for meals of chicken parmigiano and fluffy breadsticks.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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