Kisses From Italy is a fast-casual restaurant concept built around Italian-style paninis, pastries, coffee, and Italian ices, using ingredients sourced from Southern Italy, including D.O.P.-certified products. In practice, Kisses From Italy operates a single corporate-owned restaurant — a roughly 1,000 square foot location in Fort Lauderdale, Florida — and sells branded food products in approximately 90 retail grocery stores across Ontario and Quebec, Canada. The company employs just 3 full-time employees. The Fort Lauderdale restaurant generates walk-in revenue tied to beach foot traffic, making it seasonal by nature. The Canadian retail channel sells branded products through what appears to be a distribution arrangement with an Italy-based partner. Kisses From Italy's stated growth strategy centers on franchising, with a 9% royalty structure on gross sales and supply purchasing requirements for franchisees. To support this, Kisses From Italy engaged Fransmart as its exclusive global franchise developer and signed a development agreement targeting up to 100 Canadian franchise locations. However, the franchise strategy has not gained traction — both franchise locations that previously opened have since closed, no active franchise agreements exist, and the Italy-based European expansion hub has shut down. The current business is effectively a single-location restaurant with a small Canadian retail presence.