{"id":21663,"date":"2025-06-27T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/little-caesars-opens-cortez-location-with-free-pizza-family-fun\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:08:25","slug":"little-caesars-opens-cortez-location-with-free-pizza-family-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/little-caesars-opens-cortez-location-with-free-pizza-family-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Caesars opens Cortez location with free pizza, family fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3da9a126-8bdf-54b8-9078-db3a269aa8b0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" alt=\"The new Little Caesars in Cortez will mark its grand opening with free pizza and other events on Saturday. (Vanessa Medina\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The new Little Caesars in Cortez will mark its grand opening with free pizza and other events on Saturday. (Vanessa Medina\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Little Caesars will host a grand opening celebration for its newest restaurant at 2288 E. Main St. on Saturday, June 28, offering free pizza, family-friendly activities and a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the company announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a long-standing connection to Cortez, and it\u2019s always felt like a second home to our family,\u201d Little Caesars franchisee Sarah Robinson told <em id=\"emphasis-d46abe2c5bf9a3d4e57d9da78bec827c\">The<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-0a9c0a62077afbe03510c62011896fa5\">Journal<\/em>. \u201cAfter moving back to Colorado in 2022, we noticed there weren\u2019t any Little Caesars in the Cortez area, and as a busy family who has always appreciated the brand\u2019s convenience and value, we knew other families here would too. With our business background and love for the brand, Cortez felt like the right place to open our first Little Caesars location and serve a community that already means so much to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, the first 100 guests in line will receive a free classic pizza, while the next 50 will get a free order of Crazy Bread with any purchase. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., attendees can enjoy live music from a DJ, prize wheel giveaways, face painting, photo opportunities with the Little Caesars mascot and other entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>At noon, local franchisees Sarah and Paul Robinson, alongside the Little Caesars team, will lead a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official opening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission is to provide the Cortez community with high-quality, affordable pizzas and the kind of friendly service you can always count on. We\u2019re here to make life a little easier for local families and to build real, lasting connections within the community,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.3515733%2C-108.5558437&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>The 1,786-square-foot restaurant, which opened June 3, operates daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and has created 20 new jobs in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Guests ordering online can use the promo code \u2018GRANDOPENING\u2019 to receive a free large classic pizza with the purchase of any non-classic pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 guests will receive a free classic pizza <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[431,364,21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-general","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77407,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21663\/revisions\/77407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21663"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}