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Blaze opens in Reno

May 24, 2018

Blaze Fast Fire'd Pizza has opened a 2,000-square-foot open kitchen restaurant in Reno with interior seating for 48, and an exterior patio, on South Meadow Parkway near Jersey Mike's Subs, a news release said.

"Our mission at Blaze is really simple — we're taking pizza back to its roots," Blaze President and 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 also developed a turn-key. in-restaurant fundraiser program that returns 25 percent of local organizations' events there back to them. The Reno restaurant will also create 50 jobs locally.

"We are thrilled to open Blaze Pizza in Reno," Franchisee Mayer Zahid, said in the release. "We have been a part of the community for 20-plus years and are excited to bring even more amazing food to the area."

Six years after its founding, Blaze operates over 260 restaurants in 40 states, Canada and Kuwait, including the major metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, Boston and Toronto.