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New owners to take over Hillers Pizza location

by | Sep 2, 2025 | Featured: News, News

A new restaurant with new owners will take the place of Hillers Pizza, according to the landlord.

Hillers Pizza closed permanently on Monday, with a sign on its door noting that a business called “Crust & Co. Pizza & More” is set to take over the space at 77 West Main Street.

According to landlord Paul Mastroianni, an agreement was reached with the Sismanis family, who owned Hillers Pizza, to let them out of their lease. The new restaurant will have “completely new ownership.”

Mastroianni said the new owners are filing the paperwork for the new restaurant this week. “Hopefully they get approved next week,” he said. “They’re going to go in front of the town and hopefully run a great restaurant.”

While he said he was not at liberty to divulge their identities, Mastroianni expressed confidence in the new ownership. “They’ve been involved with opening 50 restaurants,” he said.

As a result of the change in ownership, the Select Board on Tuesday canceled Thursday’s public hearing on Hillers Pizza’s victualer’s license.

“Hillers Pizza has withdrawn the license transfer request and has canceled the current license, meaning that Hillers Pizza is no longer licensed as a common victualler in town,” the cancellation notice states.

The meeting was set so the board could consider its options on revoking or suspending the license, or forcing a transfer to the former owner’s wife, who had taken on ownership of the establishment. Grounds for revocation or suspension stemmed from the conviction of former owner Petros “Peter” Sismanis on charges of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years of age and two counts of witness intimidation.

Under Massachusetts General Law, the Select Board is within its rights to pull a license if a licensee “at any time conducts his licensed business in an improper manner.”

The closure of Hillers Pizza marks the end of a contentious few months since Sismanis’ conviction in June. Protestors picketed the business calling for a boycott, and a coalition of residents petitioned the Select Board to revoke the license.

“This isn’t about a single business,” Beth Malloy, a representative of that coalition, stated at the Aug. 5 Select Board meeting. “It’s about halting a proven predator, holding his apparent enablers accountable, correcting years of dangerous inaction and ensuring that Hopkinton does not become a safe haven for those who harm our most vulnerable.”

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