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Blaze Pizza adding to Canadian portfolio

July 8, 2019

Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza is opening Friday in Toronto at Vaughan Mills outlet shopping destination, according to a company press release.

"We are excited to open our 19th Blaze Pizza restaurant in Canada at Vaughn Mills, and we look forward to opening in Oakville, Ontario in the coming weeks," said Jared Taylor, VP of Blaze Pizza Operations for Cypress Five Star, which is developing Blaze Canada.

Blaze and Cypress Five Star, which operates 74 restaurants in Canada, employing over 2,000 residents, is looking to build strong roots within the Vaughan community and will host fundraisers that return 20% of an event's proceeds back to local organizations. 

"Our mission at Blaze is really simple — we're taking pizza back to its roots," Blaze CEO Jim Mizes said in the release. "By making dough in-house, using carefully sourced ingredients, and cooking by fire, we're giving guests a great way to enjoy artisanal pizza without the wait. It's changing the way people think about and eat pizza." 

Blaze Pizza has over 300 restaurants in 42 states and five countries.