In 1991, the Abo's business model began to change. Abo grew his own learned culinary talent and unstoppable drive to succeed into an attractive business venture and licensing opportunity. He was in a business partnership with his existing stores that he wanted to dissolve. He was ready to move on but needed a way to give his partner an opportunity to keep his Abo's Pizza location and maintain control over the day-to-day operations. After considering his options of franchising versus licensing, Abo favored the decentralized strengths of the licensing model, and chose to license the first stores. In 1997 and 1998, licensing built momentum and over the last seven years, Abo has extended his licenses from the original three locations in Boulder to fifteen stores across the Front Range extending from Fort Collins to Highlands Ranch with 12 total owners. Abo has now divested himself of all personally owned stores and is developing future licensing agreements. Abo's current licensing vision includes 25 or more stores along the Front Range, each with generous boundaries. The licensing approach allows individual Abo's Pizza store owners to do their own store marketing and advertising with entrepreneurial opportunities, but gives stores the economies of scale that result from centralized purchasing, control over precise product consistency and recipes, and centralized managerial know-how from Abo. Abo supports the licensing model that allows a greater degree of individual store nicheing and some of the licensees are bringing back other menu items and add-ons to round out the core pizza menu. The new Abo's Commissary in Boulder is now Abo's Inc. headquarters which serves as a central location for strictly making and delivering dough and sauce to the stores. Abo’s in Northglenn is one of the newest licensed stores. Opening it’s doors in 2006, the original owners of the license have sold to the current owner and first time restaurant owner, Justin Kehoe. After 10 years of working for Abo’s Pizza in North Boulder, Justin struck out on his own to purchase and run his own store.  Taking over in May of 2008, new owner Justin and a new staff and attitude were brought to the store, and it’s reflected in everything that is done, from the hand cut fresh vegetables to the highest demands of quality control. If there is ever a problem, feel free to contact Justin, or one of his managers, Kyle or Dave, at the store.  Come experience it for yourself. Throughout the company's 27 year history, Abo's philosophy and core values on product quality have maintained the same. Abo credits much of his success to adhering to strict standards of product quality as evidenced by not sacrificing high quality ingredients in favor of a bargain prices while also keeping an eagle's eye view on the company's finances at any given moment. Abo's continues to offer an exceptional product and friendly service with each store location- a pizza that is easily discernible for its quality taste and texture that is not to be confused with other pizzerias and the large, impersonal chains.