Pizza increasingly plentiful near IUPUI

The IndyStar featured Toppers in an article discussing new pizza locations opening near IUPUI. The  intersection of 10th Street and Indiana Avenue is now a hot place for pizza, and how is home to many top-name pizza brands such as Pizza Hut, Papa John's Marco's, Donatos, and now Toppers. 

Pizza increasingly plentiful near IUPUI

By: David Lindquist

College students and pizza never should be estranged, and new restaurants near the intersection of 10th Street and Indiana Avenue are keeping IUPUI attendees in close contact to pie. Blaze Pizza and Toppers Pizza have joined a party that includes established brands Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Donatos and Marco's. Blaze -- a neighbor to Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Donatos and Marco's in Lockefield Commons -- will celebrate its opening by giving away free pizzas on Tuesday, Feb. 11, and Wednesday, Feb. 12.

               Blaze Pizza

913 Indiana Ave., BlazePizza.com, 1013indianapolis@blazepizza.com.

To qualify for a free 11-inch pizza, "like" the Blaze Pizza Facebook page. At the restaurant, you'll be asked to show a mobile-device screenshot of your "like" (or a hardcopy printout will suffice). The offer runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day. Founded in Southern California in 2012, Blaze restaurants specialize in pizzas that cook for less than two minutes at 800 degrees. Customers select toppings in assembly-line fashion

Toppers Pizza

910 West 10th St., Suite 12, Toppers.com, (317) 672-7777.

This restaurant that opened last month in The Avenue building is the first Indianapolis location for Toppers, a company founded in Champaign, Ill., in 1991. The Toppers menu isn't limited to pizza, as the accompanying image of "Chocolate Baconstix" proves. Other innovations in Toppers history include pizzas accented by tater tots and macaroni noodles (but not on the same pie). The Indianapolis Toppers follows a Carmel store, 12545 N. Meridian St.

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