The main event here is pizza, with nine pre-selected signature options, including Meat Lovers, Veg Out, BBQ Chicken and so on, and any of these can be modified, in fact you are strongly encouraged to do so. You don’t go to Blaze for great pizza, you go for good pizza that’s better than other fast food options at a fair price. The pizza is clearly better than the national chains with which Blaze competes, and despite the red-hot oven, flames and thinner crust, do not mistake this for the now trendy, gourmet, Neapolitan-style, brick-oven pizza experience that has swept the country in recent years. The first question the staff asks every visitor is whether you have eaten here before, in order to better explain how it works.
The food: The best things about Blaze are the endless variety options, better quality ingredients, made-to-order nature of the pies, and the incredibly friendly and well-trained staff that makes eating here a feel-good experience. Reason to visit: Mix and match toppings, thick crust option. There is no table service, but the restaurants have more of a sit-down feel with nicer tables of heavy wood, a spacious café-like atmosphere, homey painted murals, and self-serve stands with condiments and to-go boxes since the one-size-fits-all individual pizzas are a bit much for most customers. At the end of the process the pizza goes into a very high temperature oven where it cooks in about three minutes and your name is called to pick it up. You order at a counter where you select your crust style, then the nascent pizza moves down the line with you, as you select sauces, cheeses, other toppings, and if you want, salad. The model is simple but elegant and sits between fast food and fast casual. Great American Bites: Philadelphia's pilgrimage-worthy pizzeria
The setup is modeled on made-to-order assembly line eateries like Chipotle, and in fact, many business analysts have called Blaze the “Chipotle of Pizza,” but it is more directly similar to 800 Degrees Pizza (currently rebranding as 800° Woodfired Kitchen Pizza + Rotisserie), a small chain (Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Japan, Middle East and coming soon to New York City) that Great American Bites profiled previously. The small number of states left off the Blaze map skew towards less populous, such as Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming. This move is bringing freshly made, fast, customized pizzas that are better than your regular fast food to much of America. It seems they were onto something - since its debut seven years ago, Blaze has added more than 250 locations in about 40 states, and just expanded into the Middle East. Launched by the founder of the Wetzel Pretzel chain, early backers included NBA superstar LeBron James, Maria Shriver and Boston Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner. history, thanks to an appealing formula and A-list investors. The scene: Blaze isn’t just another pizzeria - according to Business Insider, it is the fastest-growing restaurant chain in U.S. Watch Video: Is this America's best fast-food pizza?
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