Blake Kollker
November 27, 2017
Is Pepperoni your favorite pizza topping? Well you are not alone, because pepperoni is Azzip’s most chosen topping. Annually, Azzip customers consume 25,000 pounds of pepperoni per year, as it is found on 45% of all pizzas sold! And if you are like me, I bet you thought it was originally a sausage from Italy… View Article
Andy Niemeier
November 3, 2017
Culture. For us, it has a specific and important meaning. We are thinking and working on our store cultures – or the work environments in our locations – every day. For us, the store culture is THE employee handbook (not that paper copy with all the written policies in it). It’s the unwritten rules and norms that determine… View Article
Andy Niemeier
October 27, 2017
HELLLLLLO BLOOMINGTON! We are thrilled to have opened a new location in Bloomington, IN! What an awesome store, community, and set of newly trained Azzip team this has turned out to be. We want to thank everyone who has helped us get here. From Dan Alcorn and Garmong Construction, C&T Design and Equipment and Weber… View Article
Brad Niemeier
October 4, 2017
Well, crap. A little over 2 years into our time in Champaign, IL, it has come to an end. We will be closing the doors on Azzip Champaign at the end of the day on Saturday, October 7th. It isn’t a good feeling closing a store, but we have learned a ton from this experience… View Article
Brad Niemeier
August 3, 2017
There are five Niemeier’s currently earning a paycheck from Azzip Pizza. Those five would be myself, my mother (Laura), my father (Dan), my older brother (Andy) and my younger brother (Craig). That makes it five for five for our family. Mom was in it from the start. She had been working part time at Habitat… View Article
Blake Kollker
July 7, 2017
I get asked by many of our customers, “How did you come up with that pizza? I would never have thought of putting (insert crazy delicious topping here) on a pizza! Sure our pizzas are nothing like the original Margarita pizza’s with red sauce, Mozzarella and Basil of Naples that were eaten by the poor because… View Article
Brad Niemeier
June 20, 2017
How did you come up with the idea for Azzip? I get this question a lot. Whether I am in one of the stores or out at an event, people are always very interested in where the idea came from. Did it just pop in my head like a light bulb going off? Was it… View Article
Team Azzip
March 17, 2017
Azzip Pizza is known for delicious pizza, warm, melty cookies, and thoughtful, insightful and downright thought provoking blog posts? Okay so we can’t claim to be quite there yet with the blog thing. This is our first post so I guess you could say we are on the right track. So why did we start this blog? And why should you spend… View Article
