Pizza Chain Mountain Mike's Opens El Dorado Hills Location

Chainwide, Mountain Mike's has been adding locations in new markets. Most of its restaurants are company-franchised rather than corporate-owned, so the expansion math depends on finding franchisees willing to open multiple units.

Singh and Kaur now run three. That pattern – multi-unit franchisees expanding within a region – is common in casual dining. Restaurant chains often prefer operators who already know the brand's systems rather than recruiting first-time owners.

California's fast-food minimum wage law, AB 1228, raised wages for chain restaurant workers to $20 an hour starting April 2024. The law applies to chains with at least 60 locations nationally. Mountain Mike's, at roughly 330 units, falls under those rules. Franchisees absorb the higher labor cost, which can pressure margins at smaller-volume stores.

A 2,400-square-foot location in a suburban strip center likely needs consistent weekday lunch and dinner traffic to cover that wage floor. The all-you-can-eat lunch buffet and beer taps are standard tactics to boost per-ticket spend.

Mountain Mike's does not disclose individual store revenue. Public filings from larger franchise peers suggest a typical unit generates $700,000 to $1.1 million in annual sales, depending on location and local competition.

The El Dorado Hills opening adds one more data point to the chain's West Coast expansion. No timeline for further Sacramento-area openings was announced.