Pizza Fusion, a South Florida franchise restaurant, opened in Atlanta in late 2008 to rave reviews. The company is very ‘green’ oriented, which means there is non toxic paint on the walls, furniture made from recycled materials, etc. The list of ‘green’ practices the company employs is quite impressive and more importantly, they serve gluten-free pizza at ALL locations!
Website excerpt: Based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Pizza Fusion is a new take on America’s favorite food. We proudly serve up delicious, gourmet pizza in its purest form – untainted by artificial additives, like preservatives, growth hormones, pesticides, nitrates and trans fats (to name a few). While we’re famous for our pizza, our 75% organic menu features an eclectic variety of gourmet sandwiches, salads, desserts, beer and wine. Additionally, we proudly offer health conscious alternatives for our friends with selective diets and food allergies, such as our delicious gluten-free pizza, brownies and beer and our tasty vegan selections. Read the rest of Pizza Fusion’s story here.
Pizza Fusion uses organic ingredients when possible and delivers pizza in hybrid cars. The company is highly touted in the gluten-free community because they were the first chain or franchise to offer gluten-free pizza. Pizza Fusion offers a vegan, gluten-free brownie and dairy free cheese for pizzas upon request.
The gluten pizzas are said to be some of the best around, though I can not attest to that personally, for obvious reasons. The gluten-free pizza is very good, offering excellent quality toppings. The brownie could be better, but the salads are outstanding. The fresh basil tastes like they picked it right outside the building. The pepperoni slices are huge and extremely delicious. The Atlanta location of Pizza Fusion also serves Green’s gluten-free beer from Belgium. They also offer organic wines.
When visiting the Atlanta location recently, we enjoyed a lunch special with a gluten-free personal size pizza, side salad and Boylan’s soda for only $12.49. There is no other such value for this type of lunch in the Atlanta market. Though at one time, you could only order a large oval shaped gluten-free pizza here, you can now order a personal size gluten-free pizza for either lunch or dinner. The lunch special if only available at lunch, of course.
Pizza Fusion takes special precautions regarding cross contamination issues. They do make gluten crusts there and serve sandwiches. They even bake the gluten-free pizzas only on the top shelf of the oven so that no gluten crusts can contaminate them. The BBQ sauce is not gluten-free but most other sauces are. Everything that contains gluten is noted on the menu – not the other way around. Very cool indeed!
The Atlanta location of Pizza Fusion was the first LEED certified building in GA. Whether you eat gluten or not, check out Pizza Fusion is there is a location near you. Any company with the slogan ‘Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time’ is worth supporting!
You can find out if there is a Pizza Fusion near you by checking the location page on the website.
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Ahhh, Pizza Fusion. A company that has managed to combine my favorite food (pizza) with gluten-free, and based upon the reviews it does so really well. We still don’t have one of these anywhere in my state, so still waiting to give Pizza Fusion a try, but I hear great things. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bad review from celiacs who have eaten there.
Just so you know I was at the fort lauderdale pizza fusion a few years ago and refuse to go back as they had no concept of cross contamination. I had to leave without my sons pizza because they were using the same sauce and cheese for both the regular and gf pizzas and when I tried to explain to them what they were doing wrong they were not pleasant and still didn’t understand. I’m not sure I would trust the other franchises without watching them go through every step.
Hi Terry – I’m sorry to hear about your experience at Pizza Fusion. Our store does understand cc issues extremely well. You mentioned that you were at your location a few years ago. I’m guessing they stepped up their training of gf service there because I’ve personally met the person in charge of that training. She travels the country just to see that the gluten free service techniques the company has put in place are being used correctly.