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Team Austin participated in the Go Skating event at Brushy Creek on June 21st. Participants and attendees were able to spin the Ring of Fire Wheel for some yummy Blaze prizes. Austin photo gallery

Our Austin team participated in the Flashlight Egg Hunt on March 29th. In conjunction with our donation of coupons to fill some of the eggs for the adult egg hunt, the team also set up a table on site and brought out the spin wheel. They even got some help from the Texas Stars Mascot who helped hand out coupons to children. See more photos in our Austin photo gallery

Our San Marcos Blaze Team was invited to participate in Uptown Square Apartment’s Resident Appreciation Day. The team handed out menus, bogos, swag and encouraged residents to spin our wheel for some free Blaze goodies and take pictures with our fun photo frames!

See more photos in our San Marcos photo gallery

Ribbon cutting at the San Marcos, Texas store opening.

Our street team in College Station has officially kicked off the holiday season. On Saturday, Dec. 2nd, our street team participated in their first Jingle on the Green. Each year this event grows. Guests were able to take photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus as well as participate in games and visit different vendor booth. Blaze had the spin wheel out for the kiddos to win some cool Blaze prizes.

Our Blaze team in Austin joined in on the holiday spirit this past Sunday as a volunteer booth at the 5k. The crowds that came out enjoyed spinning the wheel and winning Blaze goodies.

See more photos in our Austin photo gallery

The Festival was definitely a success for everyone out here! What a great cause to celebrate with special needs and their families. Penelope had a lot of fun too! Go Blaze!

See more photos in our Lafayette photo gallery

Our Blaze team participated in the Taste of Waterside put on by the Waterside Shopping Center this past Saturday. Our team got to interact with all the event goers. They brought the spin wheel out and also handed samples of all three of our desserts: S’more Pies, Sea Salt Cookies and Brownies.

See more photos in our Fort Worth Waterside photo gallery

This past Saturday, our Freret Street Team participated in Audubon's Boo at the Zoo event. There the team had lines of children dressed in costume waiting to spin our Ring of Fire! They all won free items from Blaze and their parents got to walk away with some BOGOs.

See more photos in our Freret photo gallery

Our street teamers come in all sizes. Check out Penelope in her Blaze gear! She sure was a crowd pleaser at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Open Air Market. With Penelope’s help, the team was able to attract students to come over and spin the wheel in between their busy class schedules.

See more photos in our Lafayette photo gallery

Our Fort Worth team participated in the 29th Annual TCU Merchant Fair this year. Students were eager to spin the Ring of Fire and learn that Blaze was offering a Welcome Back To School Noncon4mist Day!

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General Manager Lee Voice Washington with the Help Noah Fight Cancer Team at their fundraiser at Blaze Pizza in The Colony.

Our Freret team would like to recognize these little dough gooders for a fundraiser they held with us on October 17th. Brownie Troop 40380 shared in the Hurricane Maria relief efforts by raising some dough for a troop that was affected in Puerto Rico. Talk about making some noise for a good cause!

Huge s/o to Arlington Classics Academy for hosting a fundraiser with us for their 3rd through 9th graders! Blaze is always up for helping schools raise some dough to support their students.

We would like to thank Smith Elementary for allowing our Frisco team to participate in their Fun Run again for the second year. Our General Manager, Gino, had a blast sampling out Blood Orange Lemonade and speaking with the parents about our fundraising program! We also donated 300 s’more pie passes and 50 drink passes as rewards for the event.

See more photos in Our Frisco Gallery

Super Frog made an appearance at our Fort Worth store Friday, October 6th to show TCU’s comradery in the community. Early in the football season, the Fort Worth Blaze Team joined the Go Purple Friday Program that allows businesses to offer a special to those who come in wearing purple in support of TCU’s Horned Frogs Football Team. We chose to do a $10 pizza and side salad deal.

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All the funds raised will be donated to the preschool.

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College Station held its first fundraiser with Chi Omega of Texas A&M. The funds raised went towards a bigger cause, Songfest. Songfest is the sororities biggest philanthropy event of the year. All the money raised will be donated to organizations such as Make A Wish Foundation.

See more photos in Our Blaze College Station Gallery

On August 30th, our Blaze team participated in UTA’s Activity Fair Day. Students were able to spin the Ring of Fire for free Blaze items and learn about all the cool and excited things Blaze has to offer.

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Our Frisco team participated in the Frisco Independent School District’s Back to School Bash on August 12th. The annual back to school bash provides thousands of children in the Frisco area an opportunity to receive free school supplies, backpacks, haircuts, medical checkups, etc. This year they hosted the event in conjunction with local members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

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Blaze Pizza in Frisco participated in the Hotter 'n Firecrackers Glow 5K Run

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Our street team from the Blaze Pizza in The Colony participated in the 5k run as well as the festival.

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One Acadiana Chamber hosted a one year anniversary ribbon cutting for the Lafayette Blaze Pizza. There the team also presented a check to the Acadiana Christian Athletics Cheerleading Team for a fundraiser they held at the restaurant.

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Neighboring tenant, REI, enjoyed some delicious lunch from Blaze Pizza in the Waterside Shopping Center.

On May 27th, Team Frisco participated in a Community Fair at the Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple. The team brought out their Ring of Fire Spin Wheel for fair goers to win cool Blaze swag. They also donated BOGOs for the walkathon goody bags that were passed out at the walkathon the following day.

See more photos by visiting our Blaze Frisco Gallery

Booze, Music and Philanthropy

To kickoff Craft Beer Week, Blaze Pizza in Lafayette teamed up with Abita Brewing Company on Saturday, May 13th for a Tap Take Over. We showcased Abita’s Creole Cream Ale, Andygator, Abita Amber, Louisiana Exclusive, Strawberry Lager and Purple Haze. An Abita Rep was also on site handing out Abita swag to guests that purchased beer.

Also in conjunction with the Tap Take Over, we held two fundraiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Friends of Lafayette Animal Shelter or FLASH as they are known by. Blaze will be donating twenty percent of the proceeds collected during their allotted time back to their good causes.

See more photos by visiting our Blaze Lafayette Gallery

On Tuesday, May 9th Yelp partnered with our Blaze Pizza store to host a Yelp Elite Event. The event brought in top Yelpers from the Arlington area to get a firsthand experience of the Blaze brand. Each Yelper was able to build their own pizza, received a drink of their choice and also participated in a social media contest for a chance to win a gift card from Blaze!

See more photos by visiting our Arlington Photo Gallery

On Tuesday, May 5th, our two Blaze Pizza restaurants in New Orleans participated in what’s considered the biggest day of fundraising in the city!

The 24 hour online giving event annually hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation allows community members in Southeast Louisiana to donate to any local nonprofit of choice. This year Blaze helped out by hosting fundraisers at both of our locations, we donated and delivered lunch to four non-profits with a Greater New Orleans Foundation Member and two Entergy Employees and we were a vendor at the GiveNOLA Day Fest. The Ring of Fire was a huge draw for the festival goers!

Last year’s event raised $4 million dollars from 28,000+ donations across the nation. This year’s event raised $4,889,567.00 from 38,000+ donations to 710 organizations.

See more photos by visiting our Freret, New Orleans Photo Gallery

On April 20th, the Freret Street Blaze Pizza hosted what we call a Non-Con4mist Day for all college students in the area. They were able to come in and purchase a pizza at a discounted price of only $4 bucks! The store sold 531 $4 pizzas that day. A record breaker thus far.

Roll up your sleeves and let Blaze Pizza on the green. That's right Blaze Freret joined many golfers as they socialized before the big tournament. Golfers and attendees were able to spin the Ring of Fire for free Blaze prizes and we also donated two pizza parties for four for their raffle. 

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On Sunday, April 23rd Blaze locations in The Colony and Arlington held simultaneous Tap Take Overs and Fundraisers/Canned Food Drives to support the North Texas Food Bank.

Local taps at The Colony included Rabbit Hole Brewing, 903 Brewing, Cobra Brewing Company and Texas Ale Project. Local taps at Arlington included Three Nations Brewing Company, Woodcreek Brewing Company, Guns & Oil Brewing Company and HopFusion Ale Works.

Music at The Colony was provided by TFC Project.

On Monday, April 17th, Blaze Pizza on Freret Street teamed up with Yelp to host a Yelp Elite Event! At the event, about 40 local influential Yelpers were garnished with Blaze bags and swag. They were able to scope out the restaurant and get a firsthand look in to the process of making our delicious artisanal pizzas. And last but certainly not least, they were able to enjoy their own pizza and beverage. Talk about a win win. We most certainly enjoyed the company, Yelpers!

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On April 11th,  Blaze in New Orleans held a fundraiser for ARNO at the Central Business District location. ARNO is an organization created and dedicated to the rescue and aid of abandoned and homeless animals in the New Orleans area. Their fundraising efforts with Blaze and throughout the city allows them to continue to respond to the immediate needs of animals in need of medical care or those too old, too young, too sick, neglected, abused and deprived of love. ARNO promotes the foster, adoption and reunion of pets with caretakers as well as spaying and neutering all companion animals through our no-kill shelter.

Grace at The Greenlight held a Fundraiser at our Blaze O’Keefe (New Orleans) restaurant.

Mission Statement: To offer New Orleans’ homeless persons choices and to provide for their basic needs in a loving manner that embraces the human spirit.

Visit graceatthegreenlight.org

On December 13^th, Blaze in Lafayette held a fundraiser for the Acadiana Homeschool Builders Club. These young people are all about giving back to their community through service. Builders Club is an international student-led organization providing members with opportunities to perform service, build character and develop leadership.

"The opportunity to partner with Blaze Pizza to raise "dough" for our service projects is fun!The chance to volunteer our time to serve Blaze Pizza Customers is just a way to say thank you and to show our community that we are serious about making an impact through service. We are not afraid to work!"

-Quote from Mackenzie, Club President

On Saturday, November 12th, Blaze Pizza of The Colony participated in the Run For Babies 5K held by the local March of Dimes branch. The team was set up underneath the Business Expo Tent and was able to interact with participants, talk about the brand and app, hand out bogos and give away some swag. Blaze also received recognition on stage for donating a gift card to the largest participating corporate team. Pizza party on The Colony!

In celebration of the Fort Worth community, Team Waterside participated in the First Annual Waterside By Fort Worth event. Community goers were able to learn about the newly developed Fort Worth Shopping Center through history, art, food, drink, music, health and giving back. Blaze Pizza was represented by the Waterside Team.

They passed out samples of pizza to guests, raffled off a few prizes and ran a fundraiser for the Don’t Forget To Feed Me organization. Twenty percent of the proceeds collected that day went back to the organization.

See more photos in the Forth Worth Waterside Gallery

Blaze Frisco is down for the youth! The Non-Con4mist Day on September 7th for Frisco Young Life was very successful. The group had a great turn out and the team received nothing but positive feedback. Way to go team Frisco!

Blaze Arlington was able to help the Vine Apartment Complex’s CARES Team at their BBQ by donating 50 pizza coupons as incentives to award their first 50 guests along with two free pizza cards as raffle items. The CARES Team noted they had a really great turn out! All the coupons were handed out and there were two lucky winners for the free pizza. Blaze wishes the team much success with growing the Vine community.

Pictured here are some of the winners of free pizza cards.

On Tuesday, August 30th Blaze Pizza in Arlington hosted a fundraising event for Arlington Classics Academy Fundraiser. Blaze donated 20% of the proceeds from the meals of patrons who showed the fundraiser flyer and/or wore the fundraiser sticker.

On Saturday, July 30th Blaze Pizza in Arlington participated in the Peach Tree Carnival. The street team was able to set up a table that allowed the children to spin and win prizes from the Wheel of Fire as well as sampled out s’more pies.

See more photos in the Arlington Gallery.

On Tuesday, June 7th Blaze Pizza in Arlington hosted a fundraising event for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington. Blaze donated 20% of the proceeds made from the meals of guests who mentioned the organization during their order.

On Tuesday, May 3rd Blaze Pizza participated in GiveNOLA Day, an event that raised money for over 700 nonprofit organizations.

This article first appeared here at guidelive.com

at Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza (Frisco)

To celebrate 365 days in Frisco, Blaze is "causing a scene for a good cause" and partnering with St. Jude to donate 20 percent of the day's proceeds to the organization. Funds raised will go toward the Dallas St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer in September.

Several Texas breweries will be “taking over” Blaze’s taps as part of the party, offering new and limited edition craft beers, including 3 Nations Brewing, 903 Brewers, Noble Rey Brewing Co. and Rabbit Hole Brewing.

Guests will also enjoy live music from Lone Star Bottle Band from 4-7 p.m. and receive a complimentary s'more pie with purchase of pizza.
Information provided by the venue

Go to our gallery to see more of Frisco's photos.

On May 18th Blaze Pizza hosted an event for Yelp!

See photos from that day and read some fantastic reviews at the Yelp Event Page.

On May 14 Blaze Pizza participated in the Arlington Public Library Fundraiser benefitting the Summer Reading Program. The Fundraiser was held at Blaze Pizza in Arlington. Blaze donated 20% of the proceeds from the meals of patrons who showed a library fundraiser flyer.

This article first appeared here on www.nola.com

Blaze Pizza
By Brett Anderson

611 O'Keefe Ave., New Orleans, 504.208.1028

The first local location of this growing fast-casual chain landed in the South Market District last year. It feels very much like a restaurant conceived in a boardroom. (Blaze was started by the founders of Wetzel's Pretzels, and Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner is one of its investors.)

Blaze is essentially a Neopolitan pizza place married to a Chipotle. The pizzas, developed by chef Bradford Kent of Olio Pizzeria & Café in Los Angeles, are also remarkably consistent: crisp from center-to-edge, with toppings applied sparingly, as they should be.