The Worcester-based company famous for its 4-inch pies is opening a retail storefront later this month in the city’s Canal District.
Table Talk Pies will open its store on 153 Green St., attached to its factory, sometime this month.
Harry Kokkinis, president of Table Talk Pies, said the store will primarily serve pies overrun from production. Customers will be able to come in and have a cup of coffee with their favorite 4-inch or 8-inch pie.
By Alban Murtishi, MassLive.com
on September 07, 2016 at 12:00 PM
The Worcester-based company famous for its 4-inch pies is opening a retail storefront later this month in the city’s Canal District.
Table Talk Pies will open its store on 153 Green St., attached to its factory, sometime this month.
Harry Kokkinis, president of Table Talk Pies, said the store will primarily serve pies overrun from production. Customers will be able to come in and have a cup of coffee with their favorite 4-inch or 8-inch pie.
For long-time Table Talk Pie customers, this set up should not sound unfamiliar. Kokkinis said the original Table Talk Pies location, which opened around 1944, was the perfect place for coffee and pie, until the entire Table Talk brand was closed down in 1984 by the then-corporate owners. Kukkinis’ father bought the brand back and relaunched it shortly after.
WNT Table Talk Pies Expanding – September 21st, 2016
By Alban Murtishi, MassLive.com
on October 20, 2016 at 2:44 PM, updated October 20, 2016 at 3:17 PM
WORCESTER — A project 22 years, six months and some days in the making, the city of Worcester has finally sold all of the parcels available in what was once a South Worcester industrial wasteland.
“SWIP is done,” City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. said.
Chacharone Properties, Advanced Machinery and Table Talk Pies have finalized deals to develop six parcels of land equivalent to about 95,000 square feet of new construction. The entire South Worcester Industrial Park is more than 200,000 square feet of land.
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James Chacharone, president of Chacharone Properties, announced at a groundbreaking for Table Talk Pies that he wants to construct a manufacturing building about 7,500 square feet on spec which he hopes to fill with an industrial tenant. Chacharone’s purchase was the last remaining parcel in the industrial park area.
Chacharone’s company is also building Table Talk Pies’ new, 50,000 square foot manufacturing plant, which will open in approximately six months.
By Aaron Nicodemus
Telegram & Gazette Staff
WORCESTER — In six months or so, Table Talk Pies will have a new, modern manufacturing building in South Worcester.
Table Talk, which currently bakes 2 million 4-inch snack pies and 400,000 regular sized pies per week at its facility in Kelley Square, will occupy a new 50,000-square foot facility being built by a Worcester development firm, Chacharone Properties. Once built, the facility will employ 80 workers and crank out thousands of pies an hour.
“My only regret is that my father and grandfather can’t be here to witness this great day,” said Table Talk Pies owner Harry Kokkinis, who represents the third generation of his family to run the company. “Not only are we able to build the type of building that Table Talk needs to expand, but it’s also in the place we want to be. … Worcester is so important to us, it has given us so much.”
Table Talk was founded in 1924 by Greek immigrants Theodore Tonna, Mr. Kokkinis’ grandfather, and Angelo Cotsidas. After being sold in 1965 to Beechnut, the company changed hands several times before closing down in 1984. In 1986, Mr. Tonna’s son-in-law, Christo Cocaine (whose name had changed from the original Kokkinis) reopened Table Talk, focusing on selling snack pies to grocers and convenience stores. In 2016, the business is expected to earn nearly $100 million in sales, with 300 full-time and seasonal employees.
And now, Table Talk Pies will be able to keep growing in the city in which it was born.
BY SAM BONACCI
10/20/2016
Harry Kokkinis, president of Table Talk Pies, said it was important to have this new Table Talk facility located in Worcester.
Table Talk Pies broke ground on a new manufacturing site in Worcester that will produce 1 million pies a week once it comes online.
The groundbreaking took place at the South Worcester Industrial Park on Thursday morning and was attended by numerous city officials, representatives of Table Talk as well as James Chacharone, founder of Worcester-based Chacharone Properties that is developing the site.
The Table Talk project covers the construction of a 50,000-square-foot modern industrial building set to be completed in approximately six months. The site will bring 30 jobs from the company’s existing facility on Water Street and create an additional 50 full-time jobs.
Table Talk Pies is a family business that was established in 1924. Harry Kokkinis, president of Table Talk Pies, said that the company spent four months looking for a proper site for the expanded manufacturing capacity and could not find an existing structure in Worcester.
The property’s construction is being handled by RP Masiello Inc. of Boylston, which has worked on eight other projects with Chacharone Properties.
By Nick Kotsopoulos
Telegram & Gazette Staff
WORCESTER – The City Council Economic Development Committee Tuesday night endorsed a pair of tax-relief deals to facilitate the private redevelopment of three city-owned parcels in the South Worcester Industrial Park, including construction of a 50,000-square-foot industrial building for Table Talk Pies.
By a unanimous vote, the three-member committee approved a tax-increment financing deal for the redevelopment of parcels at 25 Southgate St. and 17 Southgate Place, which is where the $4.6 million Table Talk building will be constructed.
Table Talk will lease the building from the developer, Chacharone Properties LLC.
The committee also approved a so-called TIF agreement for a parcel at 65 Armory St., where the developer plans to construct an 8,000-square-foot building that will be marketed for lease.
Chacharone Properties is acquiring all three parcels from the city.
Approval of the tax-relief deals is considered key to the redevelopment of the properties. The committee’s recommendations will next go before the entire City Council for final approval.
By Alban Murtishi, MassLive.com
The Worcester-based company famous for its 4-inch pies is opening a retail storefront later this month in the city’s Canal District.
Table Talk Pies will open its store on 153 Green St., attached to its factory, sometime this month.
Harry Kokkinis, president of Table Talk Pies, said the store will primarily serve pies overrun from production. Customers will be able to come in and have a cup of coffee with their favorite 4-inch or 8-inch pie.
For long-time Table Talk Pie customers, this set up should not sound unfamiliar. Kokkinis said the original Table Talk Pies location, which opened around 1944, was the perfect place for coffee and pie, until the entire Table Talk brand was closed down in 1984 by the then-corporate owners. Kukkinis’ father bought the brand back and relaunched it shortly after.
By Melissa Hanson | mhanson@masslive.com
WORCESTER — The expansion of Table Talk Pies to the South Worcester Industrial Park could attract other businesses, creating jobs and bolstering the tax base, in an area of the city that has been inactive for years, officials said.
Table Talk is planning to lease a new building on Southgate Street, which will be constructed by Chacharone Properties, LLC, according to a letter from City Manager Edward M. Augustus, Jr. to the City Council for its meeting on Tuesday.
Augustus in a phone interview on Friday afternoon said the Table Talk building will be the first new construction in the area.
The city worked to take down an old factory at the industrial park years ago, and tried to create parcels that were ready to develop, the city manager said.
