Apache Pizza

Apache Pizza is a chain of fast food pizza delivery restaurants in Ireland. Founded in 1996 by Robert Pendleton and his wife Emily Gore Grimes, Apache Pizza is the trading name of The Good Food Company.^[2][3] As of 2025, it has over 200 restaurants throughout the island of Ireland. Apache is Ireland's largest pizza chain. Its managing director is Derek Mulligan.^[4][3]

Apache Pizza

Industry	Restaurants
Founded	October 10, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-10-10) in Dublin
Founders	Robert Pendleton
Headquarters	Balbriggan, Dublin , Ireland
Number of locations	200+ restaurants[1] (2023)
Area served	Ireland, Northern Ireland
Key people	Derek Mulligan (Managing Director John O'Connor (Chief Financial Officer) Jordan Pendleton (Chief Technical Officer) Crispin McLaughlin (Chief Operating Officer)
Products	Pizza
Number of employees	3,000 (2023) 1,000 (2016)
Website	apache.ie

Expansion

Apache pizza headquarters

In 2015, Apache signed an agreement with Marvin.ie, an online fast food order service similar to Just Eat.^[4][5][6] As of 2012, the company employs over 800 people and manufactures more than 160,000 pizza dough balls per month.^[3]

In March 2018, Spanish restaurant chain Telepizza announced a joint venture with Irish Burger King franchise arm OKR to purchase a majority share of the company.^[7]

Eskimo Pizza

Eskimo Pizza was formed by a group of disenfranchised Apache franchisees in 2020.^[8] As of April 2021, there were 18 outlets. Since then, new branches have opened in Galway and Grand Parade, Cork.^[9][10]

Awards

In 2014, Fox News listed Apache as one of the best pizza chains in the world.^[11] Just Eat named Apache as Ireland's best takeaway in 2015.^[12]