page_title: Pizza Schmizza
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pizza Schmizza / History
caption_attribution_description: Pizza Schmizza in the Tanasbourne area of w:Hillsboro, Oregon.
context_page_description: Pizza Schmizza is an American pizza chain with 23 locations throughout the Portland, Oregon area, and two in southern Oregon. Pizza Schmizza primarily sells thin crust pizza by the slice.
context_section_description: Pizza Schmizza opened its first location on August 6, 1993 in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon by brothers Andre and Roger Jehan.
  In 2003, Pizza Schmizza received complaints from an advertising watchdog group for hiring homeless men to hold signs bearing the slogan "Pizza Schmizza paid me to hold this sign instead of asking for money". Owner Andre Jehan countered that this was a way to help the homeless and that the homeless found the arrangement a positive experience.
  Pizza Schmizza received a media award from the Oregon Department of Human Services for support of a program discouraging underage alcohol consumption in 2004.
caption: A location in Hillsboro, Oregon
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