After four years, Blaze Pizza in Ammon closes for business
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AMMON — After four years of business, a build-your-own pizza restaurant has closed its doors permanently.
Outside of Blaze Pizza in Ammon, a sign on the door reads, “Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have made the painful decision to close this location. Thank you for four years in your community! – The Fenderson Family.”
Blaze Pizza closed on Friday, March 31.
“We loved being there for four years. I wish things would have turned out differently, but sometimes that’s the risk you take, I guess, being a small business owner,” franchisee owner Rachelle Fenderson told EastIdahoNews.com on Thursday.
Blaze Pizza opened in 2019 in the Sandcreek Commons shopping center. Fenderson talked to EastIdahoNews.com during that time and had said Ammon was selected to be Idaho’s fifth location because of all the growth in the area.
On an Idaho Falls Facebook group this week, users posted about Blaze Pizza going out of business, saying, “Soooo sad!! Loved their gluten-free pizza!” and “Blaze was my favorite pizza place.”
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Fenderson said not enough people came to the location.
“We felt like we provided a really good product. We felt like we had really good staff. We felt like we built a really beautiful store. We don’t know what piece of the puzzle was missing,” Fenderson said. “We employed 15 people there in town…it’s hard. I will say that we opened in April of 2019. That gave us less than ten months before everything happened with COVID.”
Blaze Pizza is a build-your-own pizza concept that includes a menu of signature pizzas made fresh right in front of you. According to its website, founded in 2011, Blaze Pizza calls itself the nation’s leading fast-casual pizza franchise, with more than 340 restaurants across 38 states and six countries.
