Godfather’s Pizza Now Offers Gluten-Free Pizzas!

Today while my wife was visiting our local Godfather’s Pizza restaurant, she discovered a new brochure that announces that many Godfather’s Pizza restaurants now offer gluten-free pizzas! Of course the potential for cross-contamination in a pizza place is pretty high, so there are some obvious concerns there.

Thankfully my wife spoke to the manager to get an idea of what precautions have been put in place to avoid cross-contamination, and she was informed that the pizzas are actually made in a gluten-free facility, then shipped out to the stores. Each participating Godfather’s Pizza location has been educated on the concerns of cross-contamination and have precautions in place when cooking the pizzas (different equipment is used, etc.). Apparently they also allow people to call and purchase the pizzas (including in bulk) over the phone, then take them home and freeze them or cook them in their own oven!

According to the brochure, Godfather’s gluten-free pizzas feature a rice-based crust and include the following topping options:

Cheese
Sausage
Pepperoni
Beef
Classic Combo
All-Meat Combo

Their brochure also includes the following information:

Committed to Quality

Just like with anything we do, Godfather’s Pizza is committed to providing our customers with a quality product. Our research and development team went to work to develop a great-tasting, quality pizza that is 100 percent free of gluten. Realizing that this particular product goes beyond taste and impacts a customer’s health, we took no chances. Our staff has completed a Gluten-Free Training Program to educate them on gluten-free procedures and to help avoid cross-contamination.

For More Information

Please contact glutenfree@godfathers.com for questions or concerns about our gluten-free pizza.

Godfather’s Pizza also offers some additional information on their official website here. Overall it sounds like a great idea that you can take the pizzas home and avoid cross-contamination concerns all together and I plan to try this out sometime in the next week. If you live in an area with a Godfather’s Pizza, you may want to call your local area and give these new pizzas a try!

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Kyle Eslick says:

November 14, 2009 at 8:09 pm

As a quick follow up to this post, I finally had a chance to try Godfather’s gluten-free pizzas. The overall experience was excellent, but unfortunately the pizzas weren’t all that tasty. Our local manager had a bunch of questions for me about the gluten-free diet and seemed very interested in learning more, though it seems Godfather’s has already educated him pretty well.

As for the pizzas, they look just like a frozen pizza and are already prepared and packaged so you can order them to take home and cook in your own oven (or throw a few extras in the freezer for the future).

Even though the pizzas weren’t excellent, they are convenient and I want to support restaurants that go to this extra effort, so I will probably order them from time to time so that this option stays available in my area.

Tiffany Janes says:

November 17, 2009 at 10:57 am

I’ve heard their gf pizzas were not that great, but taste is subjective. All the places that we have pizza at use frozen crusts and some are better than others. However, nothing compares to freshly made gluten-free pizza which I have had in three places in NYC. I’m still waiting on someone to make fresh pizza near us. I can’t drive over an hour to Fayetteville, GA to eat pizza. I too like to support places that are trying to accomodate us. You never know how things might progress down the road if they get enough gf business.