Little Caesars Pizza said Wednesday it has sold 39 restaurants in Utah and parts of Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado to Salt Lake-based Caesars Utah.

Terms were not disclosed.

The managers of Caesars Utah — Joe Johnson, Brad Dennis and Cory Hair — plan to open 15 to 20 more stores in the next few years.

United Mergers & Acquisitions of Salt Lake City was commissioned by Little Caesars corporate office to divest its Utah holdings.

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Detroit-based Little Caesars restaurants originally were owned by another local investment group in the late 1980s and were bought by Little Caesars Corporate in the early 1990s.

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