An Italian fast-casual chain restaurant is expected to open at the TA Travel Center in Milldale this summer. Fazoli’s, which serves pizza, pasta, sandwiches and other dinners, will open its first location in the northeast at the travel center, 1875 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, the company said in a statement.

“Our mission at Fazoli’s is to serve America premium quality Italian food, fast, fresh and friendly,” Fazoli’s president and CEO Carl Howard said in the statement. “I can’t think of a better opportunity to do this than on America’s highways with a company like TravelCenters.”