Azzip Pizza

Azzip Pizza, LLC is an American restaurant chain based in Evansville, Indiana, specializing in pizza. Its unique feature are highly customized pizzas baked in a conveyor belt oven in front of their customers. Azzip Pizza claims to offer over 16 million variations including gluten-free and vegetarian options.^[1] Pre-created variations are sold on special occasions or as their "Pizza of the Month".

History

Brad Niemeier founded Azzip Pizza in 2014 after having won the Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition^[2] at Purdue University in 2012, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management. After two years of research and development the first location opened in February 2014 in Evansville, Indiana. After only seven months the second location opened in Newburgh, Indiana. Niemeier's restaurant concept was resoundingly successful. The fast casual restaurant's popularity was confirmed when it was awarded "Best Restaurant Opened in 2014" by the Evansville Living magazine.^[3]

In April 2015 Azzip Pizza was the Gold Winner of the Evansville Courier & Press Readers' Choice Awards - making it the "Best Place for Pizza" in Evansville. Later that year the first Illinois location opened in Champaign, Illinois,^[4] followed by another location in Evansville.

In 2016 the management moved into its new Evansville Headquarters. Azzip Pizza's fifth and first Kentucky location opened in the summer of 2016 in Bowling Green, Kentucky,^[5] underlining the Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area's importance to local businesses. Another location is to open in Terre Haute, Indiana in the fall of 2016.

Philanthropy

Azzip Pizza launched its We Give A’Zip Giveback Program to benefit local organizations and schools.

See also

• List of pizza chains of the United States
• List of casual dining restaurant chains

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