Pieology Pizzeria, a fast casual pizza restaurant based in southern California, will fire up its first St. Louis-area oven in St. Charles this fall with five more area locations to follow. Midwest Pie, LLC has secured the rights to open the franchises, which will join Pieology’s 69 other locations in 11 states.
Offering customizable or pre-designed pizzas for $8, Pieology creates 11½-inch pies on a customer’s choice of regular, whole-wheat or gluten-free crusts. There is no additional cost for additional sauces, cheeses, meats and veggies. Pieology also offers made-to-order salads, as well as beer and wine.
“The focus is on quality,” said Jeremy Bonk, St. Louis-area director of operations. “We make our own sauce and dough daily. We shred our own mozzarella. We use a lot of fresh and made-from-scratch ingredients.”
When it opens in late November, Pieology will occupy 2,400 square feet at the Streets of St. Charles, a development off Interstate 70 that also houses eateries like Prasino, Tucanos and Bar Louie.
This article appears in September 2015.