After four years, Blaze Pizza in Ammon is closing for business

AMMON – After four years in business, your own pizza restaurant has permanently closed its doors.

Outside Amon’s Blaze Pizza, 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! — FENDERSON FAMILY.

Blaze Pizza is closed Friday, March 31st.

“We loved it there for about four years. I wish things were different, but sometimes that’s the risk you take, I guess, being a small business owner,” franchise owner Rachel Fenderson told eastidahonews.com Thursday.

Blaze Pizza opened in 2019 in the Sandcreek Commons shopping center. Fenderson spoke with East IdahoNews.com at the time and said Ammon was chosen to be Idaho’s fifth location because of all the growth in the area.

In an Idaho Falls Facebook group this week, users posted about Blaze Pizza going out of business, writing, “So sad!! Loved their gluten-free pizza!” And “Blaze was my favorite pizza place.”

Related | Yes, Blaze Pizza is still coming to East Idaho.

Fenderson said not enough people came to the scene.

“We felt we gave a really good product. We felt we had a great staff. We felt like we made a really nice shop. We don’t know which piece of the puzzle is missing,” said Fenderson. “We employed 15 people in that town… it’s tough. In the year I would say we opened in April 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 in front of you. Founded in 2011, Blaze Pizza calls itself the nation’s leading fast-casual pizza franchise with more than 340 restaurants in 38 states and six countries.