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The Grand Traverse Pie Company has 16 restaurants in Michigan and Indiana, and this spring launched a new menu with new salads, sandwiches and more!

Read more about it: The Grand Rapids Press

Franchisee owners Dave and Beth Ziegler — who also own the Grand Traverse Pie Co. on Zeeb Road in the Ann Arbor area — signed a lease for the 3,185-square-foot former @burger space at 505 E. Liberty St. in October 2011…
Read the full article at AnnArbor.com

(Traverse City, MI)  – Grand Traverse Pie Company will celebrate Moms all week long beginning Monday, May 7^th through Sunday, May 13^th, Mother’s Day.  Treat mom to lunch or dinner at the Pie Company and the GT Pie team will honor her with a complementary piece of pie.  When moms visit any Grand Traverse Pie location during the week, they’ll receive a Free Slice of Pie of their choice with their purchase.

“We know Mom’s are special and, we know they deserve something special during ‘their’ day,” said Mike Busley, Co-Founder Grand Traverse Pie Company.  GT Pie Company is celebrating Moms and the fruits of springtime with its Pie of the Month feature for May – Strawberry Rhubarb.  A blend of strawberries and rhubarb making for a fresh, but sweet spring pie.  The perfect selection to Celebrate Mother’s Day and the month of May.

In the United States, Mother’s Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it “Mother’s Work Day.”

The second Sunday in May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation to their mothers.

The GTPC locations celebrating Mothers Day with ‘A Free Slice with Purchase for Moms’ include:

• Ann Arbor  (734) 997-9702
• Brighton  (810) 225-7437
• East Lansing – (517) 203-3304
• Grand Rapids – Kentwood (616) 977-7600
• Downtown Lansing (517) 316-0900
• Midland (989) 839-4872
• Norton Shores  (231) 799-3399
• Okemos  (517) 381-7437
• Petoskey  (231) 348-4060
• Plymouth (734) 459-9200
• Traverse City – Two Locations in Downtown TC (231) 922-7437
• Troy (248) 458-0322

Grand Traverse Pie Company Corporate Office:

525 West Front Street

Traverse City, Michigan 49684

231-929-7841

(Traverse City, Michigan & Ann Arbor, Michigan) April 27, 2012 – Just baked, from scratch, flavors and aromas will fill the newest Grand Traverse Pie Company location in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor, near the University of Michigan Campus. Grand Traverse Pie Company co-founders Mike and Denise Busley and Ann Arbor franchisee owners Dave and Beth Ziegler invite Pie and Café enthusiasts to visit the newest GTPC location opening Monday, May 7th . “We are very excited to become a part of the urban energy surrounding downtown Ann Arbor. What a vibrant community. Our last two downtown pie shops located in Traverse City and Lansing have integrated beautifully into those communities, and we believe this new Ann Arbor location will do the same. The timing is perfect, in that we will be introducing an exciting new line of upscale salads to compliment our freshly made sandwiches, pot pies, and of course fruit and cream pies,” says Busley. Grand Traverse Pie Company will welcome patrons to its new location on East Liberty Street in the McKinley Towne Centre Building with the familiar “fresh baked” aromas flowing from the open air, from-scratch kitchen.

The college town, home to the University of Michigan, has been good to the Grand Traverse Pie Company over the years, with the N. Zeeb Road location enjoying great success since it was opened in 2006 by owners Dave and Beth Ziegler.

Every GT Pie location features tasty breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus filled with signature items every day. The new location will also offer the favorite menu items known to the GT Pie Company in addition to several fresh menu items including a Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese; a grilled to order Turkey Reuben with Coleslaw; a melt in your mouth Caprese Sandwich; a Chicken Fiesta Salad featuring an oven baked chicken with signature seasonings and a bibb lettuce blend. Each guest will experience the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of an active kitchen while relaxing in the warm ambiance of an “Up North” gathering place – Good Things Start With Pie.

Over 25 varieties of fruit, cream, meringue, and key lime pies will be available EVERY DAY, made from scratch, on-site.