2025 Pizza Palooza

Sun, Feb 2, 2025, 12:00 pm - Sun, Feb 2, 2025, 4:00 pm
North Canton Hoover High School, 584, 10th Street Northeast, North Canton, Ohio, 44720, United States
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Description

The North Canton Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to present our inaugural Pizza Palooza, taking place on February 2nd from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Hoover High School!

Join us for a unique culinary adventure, featuring 20 regional pizza shops and local creameries, all under one roof. Savor delicious pizza slices and ice cream for a day of family fun and flavors!

Participating pizzerias include favorites like Papa Bears, Sol Pie Pizza, Park Street Pizza, Gionino’s, Giuseppe’s, Decheco’s, Upper Crust Pizza, Lindsey’s, Luigi’s, Forro’s, Bob’s Pizza, Burrata’s, Italo’s, Zepp’s, Angello’s 2 go and more. 

Bring the kids to the Kid Zone, complete with bounce houses, games, and family-friendly entertainment.

Organizer

  The North Canton Chamber of Commerce

Venue

 North Canton Hoover High School
  584, 10th Street Northeast, North Canton, Ohio, 44720, United States

Customer Reviews

4.4 85 Ratings
Bev James
    
February 26, 2025

Great first event. I would attend another one. A few suggestions :
1. Staggered tickets. When the doors opened, there was a swarm of people and was very crowded and then died down. I had friends attend later in the day and some of the pizza was gone… and cold.
2. Use stanchions to define lines so people know where to stand. At times is was very chaotic.
3. Have either a sandwich board or something more distinct to show the name of the pizza place so people know what line they are standing in.
4. Use the cafeteria trays that we can put the plates on.

Katie Horton
    
February 10, 2025

It was a good event, just maybe a bigger venue it was very crowed. There was little to no seating areas. The price was great, and the kids loved the bounce houses and the laser tag! We loved trying all the new pizza places.

Mikayla Winafeld
    
February 7, 2025

This was a great event for families. We enjoyed getting to try different places. It was slightly crowded and it would be great if there would be a little clearer signage for which pizza place each line is for.

Tammy Johnson
    
February 6, 2025

I loved it. All the pizza places were great. The kids zone was awesome. I hope they have another one next year. Maybe have it 2 days.

Cassie Parsons
    
February 5, 2025

Good family activity. Loved all the variety in vendors. Loved that many of the businesses continued to bring in more pizza when they ran out. The cost was very reasonable. Only suggestion is maybe a timed entry ticket so that crowds wouldn't gather at the entrance. And possibly a different layout for the set up of pizza vendors. We are going to be ordering from some of the places we tried. This was great advertising for them

Cindi Nettle
    
February 5, 2025

We loved the experience. The Kids Zone was fantastic for our grandchildren. The pizza area was a bit of a peoply nightmare with no real direction for the lines and was difficult to manage with small children.

Jennifer Suchan
    
February 5, 2025

The idea was fantastic and the pizza was delicious. I know it was the first time hosting this event, but needs better organization. It was hard telling who the vendors were and transversing the area. Took us forever to find drinks and that was only finally asking someone.

Lorie White
    
February 4, 2025

It was a fun experience but it could have been set up a little differently. I would have had people pass by the drink station first then the pizza stations ending with the ice cream stations. It was obviously a popular event because it was packed. It was a wonderful way to make money for the school system.

Kimber Gorham
    
February 4, 2025

I had a family pass, a 2 adult pass and an additional child pass to cover all of the people with me. For the family pass, I was given 4 exact same booklets and later saw that there were adult booklets that had 6 pizza options in them. I would have assumed that I would have had that for the adult(s) on the family pass. It was pretty crowded at first and it would have been helpful if maybe there were time slots for the pizza just to spread out the number of people coming in at one time. That would also require that all the pizza places had additional pizza that they could keep warm in some way. Much of the pizza was cold. If you were getting it later after the lines died down it was hard to see which pizza places were where and you didn’t know what line you were in. Some signage above the Pizza places or a map of where the pizza places were would be helpful. The kids zone was awesome. That was well run and my kids enjoyed it a lot. I think that could’ve been utilized to spread out some of the people getting pizza by starting off some families in the kids zone while other families got pizza and then switching for the first two hours. After that, Kidzone could be full access for anyone.

I think that it would be nice if people could purchase additional slices by the slice if needed. The slice sizes were inconsistent so some people got more food than others and some adults were still hungry.

Overall, it was a good experience for a first year event and I hope they do it again.

Brittany Gerber
    
February 4, 2025

Had such a good time. It was so neat to get to try pizza I wouldn't normally order. I would be willing next time to be able to try more and pay more.