The Freedom to Choose at Fired Pie

The Place: Fired Pie
The Location: Valley-wide
The Dish: Build-Your-Own Pizza
By: Tyler Peckham

Walking into any Fired Pie restaurant across our great state, you are greeted by both the warmth of the pizza ovens and the employees. The atmosphere is casual and fun, with bright pops of color, upbeat music and fun artwork adorning the walls. Most locations offer plentiful seating both inside and out, often with live music accompaniment on the weekends.The food at Fired Pie embraces the unique tastes of all guests and offers customers a chance to choose their own toppings for personal pizzas and salads.

Even though signature pizzas are available, we chose to embark upon our own pizza-making journey ($8.79). To start, we chose classic, house-made dough and tomato sauce; other sauce options include: Alfredo, buffalo, olive oil, BBQ, pesto and chunky tomato. Next up—cheese! Fired Pie offers many options besides your basic mozzarella, like fontina, bleu, feta, parmesan and vegan. For protein toppings, you can choose from anchovies, buffalo chicken, capricola, meatball, salami, sausage, bacon, Canadian bacon, grilled chicken, pepperoni and steak. Vegetable toppings include all the favorites, plus less popular options as well, such as roasted artichoke, spinach, and Kalamata olives. There’s literally something for everyone.

If time is short, and you just want a basic fix, you can’t go wrong with a signature margherita, Hawaiian BBQ, or steak and blue pizza (just to name a few). Salads are also available in signature creations and build-your-own options. Fired Pie also prides itself on offering ingredients that cater to those with special dietary needs, including gluten-free crust, vegan cheese and vegetarian sausage. And to top it all off, try a ‘pookie’ for dessert ($1.49-$5.49). You guessed it–a pookie is a warm, chewy, pizza-cookie topped with ice cream. Yes, please!

The franchise also believes in giving back to the community, and allows 501(c) charities to choose one day during which 20% of all participating guest purchases go to the charity. Fired Pie will also happily take care of your next catering order!

Fired Pie is a perfect place for even the pickiest of eaters and your “perfect order” can change as you do. Check out one of their nearly two dozen locations all around the Valley!

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