Papa Murphy’s to open in North O.C.

Papa Murphy’s, the nation’s fifth largest pizza chain, will open its third “take and bake” pizza restaurant in Orange County later this year.

The new location will be in a strip center at the corner of Yorba Linda and Kramer boulevards in Placentia, near Pick up Stix. Address: 119 E. Yorba Linda Blvd. The restaurant could open by end of June.

The chain’s first two O.C. locations opened last year in San Clemente and Dana Point.

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Other opening news: Beach Pit BBQ announced plans to open its first restaurants in South Orange County. Restaurants are slated for “a 1,300 square-foot space in the Ocean Ranch shopping center in Laguna Niguel and a 2,500 square-foot space at The Commons in Aliso Viejo,” owner Tim DeCinces told Register reporter Lindsey Baguio. (Read her full report here)

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