Pizza and 'Weigh and Pay' Frozen Yogurt Planned for Park Street

The owners of Mangia Neapolitan Pizzeria hope to open their latest restaurant in Medfield this summer.

Owner Steve Fenerjian was before the Zoning Board of Appeals this week seeking a special permit to convert the former Park Street Books into a pizzeria and self-serve frozen yogurt restaurant with outdoor seating.

Fenerjian described the chain, based in Sharon, as a "gourmet, health-driven pizza chain" with 12 stores throughout New England and Rhode Island.

According to www.eatmangiapizza.com, their Massachusetts restaurants are in Boston, Canton, Cohasset, Holliston, Hopkinton, Norton, Sharon, Wenham, plus a shop in Barrington, Rhode Island. 

Medfield will be the first in the chain to offer self-serve frozen yogurt. 

"We're introducing a new concept that we're bringing to the chain which is the new yogurt craze that is sweeping across the nation now," Fenerjian said. "This will be the first [Mangia] store to have it and we'll introduce it to the other stores over the next 12 months."

The yogurt business -- which will eventually have its own name -- will consist of a bank of five self-serve yogurt machines as well as an extensive toppings station where you can "make your own." The yogurt will then be weighed by a cashier, also known as "weigh and pay."

Mangia also plans to have outdoor seating from May to October, but said that approximately 70 percent of their business is take-out. 

They plan to be open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., staying open until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.