Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp. and Pizza Pizza Limited announced that effective January 1, 2019, the number of restaurants on which royalties are paid to the company by PPL (the Royalty Pool) has been adjusted to include 25 new restaurants opened during the prior year vend-in period; 11 restaurants were closed and removed from the Royalty Pool. By brand, 18 new Pizza Pizza restaurants and seven new Pizza 73 restaurants were added to the Royalty Pool; there were ten Pizza Pizza restaurants and one Pizza 73 restaurant closed and removed from the Royalty Pool. Of the 11 closures, two were traditional restaurants and nine were nontraditional locations. For 2019, there will be 772 restaurants in the Royalty Pool made up of 660 Pizza Pizza locations and 112 Pizza 73 locations.