Blaze Pizza, Fast-casual pizzeria in Lake Buena Vista, US.
Blaze Pizza is a fast-casual pizzeria in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, where guests build their own pizza at an open counter with a wide range of toppings. The dough is made in-house and each pizza goes straight into a stone oven at very high heat.
The chain was founded in 2011 by Elise and Rick Wetzel in California and expanded rapidly to hundreds of locations across North America. The assembly-line model they introduced was central to its growth from the very start.
Customers walk along a counter building their own pizza with chosen toppings, a self-service style that lets everyone create exactly what they want. This hands-on approach has become the standard way people order and eat here.
The restaurant sits close to Disney World and draws a lot of families throughout the day, so it can get crowded around typical meal times. Coming a little earlier or later than the usual rush tends to make the experience more comfortable.
The stone oven used at each location reaches over 900 degrees Fahrenheit (about 480 degrees Celsius), which is why a pizza is ready in just a few minutes. That level of heat makes the oven the core element of the whole operation.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 60,000 contributors worldwide.
