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Top 100: Menu Trends – Fast casual pizza

Fast casual pizza is number six on our list of the 2014 Top 100 Fast Casual Movers and Shakers: Menu Trends.

December 23, 2014

Fast casual pizza is number six on our list of the 2014 Top 100 Fast Casual Movers and Shakers: Menu Trends.

Pizza always has been a great dinner option, but until the addition of fast casual pizza, it wasn’t always a practical lunch choice. Fast casual concepts such as Top That!, Blaze, Pie Five, Fresh Brothers, The Pizza Studio and Uncle Maddio’s, however, are proving pizza can be quick, customizable and affordable — all things lunch-goers demand.

The model allows guests to order individual- sized pies, choosing from thousands of pizza combinations that can be ready in just a few minutes. Even companies that have been traditional pizza joints are looking to get into the fast casual pizza markets; California Pizza Kitchen founders Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield announced their plan to create a new fast casual pizza concept.