article_snippet: A little-known southern pizza chain is edging in on big name brands to take a big slice of the market.
article_snippet: Loyal fan: Roy Bruce, owner of the Rightway Foodmart poses for a photo in front of a Hunt Brothers Pizza display in Andersonville, Tennessee . '
article_snippet: On a recent morning at 10:40am, Roy Bruce, who owns Rightway Foodmart in Andersonville, Tennessee, started sliding Hunt Brothers pizzas for the lunch rush into a conveyor-belt oven.
article_snippet: In about an hour, Bruce sold that first pizza and another one in two-slice $2.99 'hunks' from a countertop warming display near Bruce cash register.
article_snippet: Pizza customers included a UPS delivery driver, a woman on her way to lunch with her daughter and a guy in camouflage who confessed he was just coming from the liquor store.
article_snippet: In a typical Hunt Brothers arrangement, Bruce said Bruce paid about $10,000 for Bruce oven, freezer, display case and other equipment and now just pays the Nashville, Tennessee-based company for the pizza ingredients.
article_snippet: Speedy delivery: Maria Witkowski hands a Hunt Brothers Pizza from the drive-thru window to a customer at the Rightway Foodmart in Andersonville .
article_snippet: Tristano noted that 7-Eleven offers pizza in some of Tristano 7,800 U.S. locations and that Little Caesars has also had success in rural areas.
article_snippet: While Hunt Brothers declined to discuss company finances, Bruce says Bruce sells about 500 pizzas a month, much of it by the hunk.
article_snippet: Combined with drinks and other convenience items, Bruce estimates pizza customers spend more than $10,000 each month in Bruce store.
article_snippet: The problem I had was all these other places were delivering pizza, so I had to come up with something,' his said while stopping at Rightway to chat with Bruce.
article_snippet: Angela Moles came in to get three hunks of pepperoni pizza and drinks to take to lunch with Angela Moles daughter.