Pie Five Pizza Co.

Good, but not amazing either. I like the idea that you have a bunch of varieties to choose from while making your own pizza. I also like how they have a good sized menu to help with ideas on what to order. Lol. I knocked off some stars because of the quality of the pizza, and because of the price you pay for it. It’s a little expensive for the quality of food. I do like this place, but I wouldn’t choose it over little ceasers or Papa Johns, unless I want more toppings and creativity added to my ‘za. It’s a cool idea of a restaurant, though! I’m diggin’ it. Plus, this location is kept very clean. Liz, the shift leader is amazing! Very friendly and fun! Makes me feel welcomed in your chain. Keep it up, Liz!

Similar to what I said about the Schaumburg location — this make-​your-​own pizza concept is pretty awesome and growing in popularity. The ability to choose an endless combination of items with a guaranteed 5-​minute cooking time works for those who are in a lunch rush or just really hungry for some fresh pizza. My criticisms do stand about how light the flavors are of the ingredients (guess it’s so different ingredients don’t clash in unusual combinations), how the crust could be more flavorful, and how it’s a bit expensive for this (although with the price of other fast food rising, it’s not as bad comparatively). Two items I tried here that weren’t in the other review were the breadsticks and the apple pie. The breadsticks are fairly pricey, even when ordered in a bundle — but true to their claim — they really do melt in your mouth and have an addictive flavor to them. So much so that I might just skip the pizza and go straight to breadsticks next time. The apple pie was surprisingly tasty with apples that were still crisp and a nice cookie crust that really matched well with the cinnamon and gooey apple filling on top.
Overall, this place does serve addictive food and is a serious competitor to Pizza Hut, Dominos, and Little Caesar’s — but a little on the pricey side for fast casual cuisine.

I really went into this with low expectations, but ended up happy and have been back multiple times. It’s a great place to go with coworkers during lunch break and get a pizza-​fix without ordering and sharing a huge pizza. Individually portioned, you can pick what sauces and toppings you want… but I always go with one of the different ones they’ve already created. Tastes great – some creations more than others, but the baseline is good here.

Friendly service and accommodating. Sometimes a little disorganized, but still gracious.
For the price and turnaround to get a personalized pizza there is no better. Great topping selection and cooked just right.
Sure it is not some gourmet pizza joint but it comes close at a good deal.

I like Pie Five Pizza because it is an alternative to typical fast food options and it seems healthier. You can choose a specialty pizza or creat your own. The last time I got a pizza with Italian beef and some veggie. I feel like they go light on the ingredients, but they oblige if you ask them to go heavy or add more. It’s not really a place I crave or go out of my way for, but it is good when you are in a rush and craving pizza!

Stopped in for a late lunch on Saturday. The place wasn’t very full, but there were a couple people in front is reviewing the menu.
I ordered a five star (sauce, cheese, sausage, pepperoni, beef, peppers, olives, onions). I asked for the spicy marinara sauce which I highly recommend and some giardineira. My wife had bacon, sausage and spinach on the artisan thin.
They may have been a little light on toppings for hers, but I didn’t hear her complain. My toppings were plenty.
The staff was all busy with various tasks which is nice to see even when it isn’t super busy. One was cutting and weighing dough. Another was rolling crusts. One was clearing tables and two were ready to take our orders as soon as we stepped up to the line.
I had a great experience and got a great lunch plus a drink for under $ 10. If you use the app to check in, you get a pizza for $ 5.

The subway/​chipotle like concept falls way below the achieved outcome. Though the facility presents itself very nicely, the staff under delivers with stingy gestures of covering your pizza with toppings. What you might be expecting when customizing your pizza and indulging in your so called endless toppings, you might just want to reconsider and go across the street to dominos. We went here on a free coupon but even that seemed a waste of my time and hunger.

Wanted to try this place because friends of ours enjoy it. Walked in very optimistic… but was disappointed. While the idea of being able to choose your toppings is GREAT, nothing else was great. The pizza was cold (I had the pan pizza)…and the toppings weren’t all that good. If they had a better pizza sauce it would have been golden. The other downside is that the entire place smelled like a fart. I don’t know if it was a customer, the food or a bathroom issue, but it ruined the entire experience. I won’t likely be back again.

Ordered take out. On the one hand, the service was acceptably faster this time. 4 stars for service.
However, there was a bigger problem this time.
I ordered the high five, which is their meat lover’s. 8 people came in behind me, so the manager cut in and took over my pizza from the regular girl at the topping station.
I get home, and my sister steals a slice. She goes, «Why are there all these different kinds of olives on your pizza? There’s so much vegetable on this and little meat. Did you start a diet?» Hah, yeah right.
So anyway, Pie Five, I know there are a lot of toppings, but don’t make them unless you make them right. I want what I order, and not something I don’t like.

I had never heard of Pie Five before. I was skeptical at first but I was very pleasantly surprised. It’s a lot like a Subway for pizza. You pick the dough, the sauce, the toppings, etc. They toss it an a really fast oven and it comes out the other side all ready.
They also have one of those fancy soda dispensers.
I have already gone back a few times. Very good pizza. Very fresh. Very fast.

This place looked nice from the outside. I went in, waited in line for 20 minutes, mainly because employees seemed to not care about keeping the line moving or were standing around. They don’t seem to know how to make dough as I saw that they were throwing out batches for being too dry. I got a barbeque chicken pizza; super super thin with a odd shaped crackly crust (likely because they’re making the dough too dry) very skimpy on the ingredients. I wouldn’t pay $ 7 for it again. I understand this place is new and the employees are still learning and this place does have a lot of potentional, but good god, man! Put some meat and cheese on those pizzas! Make me feel that was $ 7 well spent. The company needs to do a little more research on the Chicago market. I can think of a few dozen places to get better pizza than this.

My wife and I were the first customers to this newly opened business. We got a flyer in the mail and were super surprised when we arrived on Grand Opening Day. We waited outside for it to open, but was totally worth it as Pie Five knows not only how to make a great $ 7 Pizza, but has great staff too. Great experience and will be returning.
The pizza. So many options first off. It is like this place was made for picky eaters. I got the standard crust, and it was a mix between pan and thin. Sauce was on the sweeter side, and the cheese blend was very nice– not greasy. The toppings tasted fresh, and honestly for five minutes… It is pretty tasty.
The Atmosphere is pop/​trendy music with creative pizza pun art on the wall. Very modern décor with warm lighting.

I feel like this is the want to be chipotle of pizza places. Why is it that almost every restaurant seems to want to be like chipotle nowadays anyway? My son and I went to grab a light dinner and the place was pretty crowded, it was very disorganized because the line wasn’t moving and you do have to wait a few minutes for your pizza, the workers there seemed a little bit confused and we’re not really helpful in expediting the process. I realize the place just recently opened so, we can give them the benefit of the doubt. However, the pizza was pretty bland. They recommend the artisan crust for some of their pizzas and that’s what I got. And a pizza from their own menu, it was a chicken pesto Alfredo or something to that effect. The toppings were mediocre… The crust, bland. I recommend this for non foodies who are just… Hungry but not for something super delish

Arguably at the top of growth chain for the fast casual dining segment, the relatively new «made on demand» concept pizza places appeal to customers on three points: value pricing, quality ingredients, and fast service.
There are quite a few entrants into the category already, including Blaze, MOD, and Pie Five, which was started and is owned by the same group that owns the successful chain, Pizza Inn (I like their buffets). I think that gives them a leg up on the competition.
It works kind of like Chipotle or Subway, you walk through a line, pick one of the specialty pies, or design your own, choosing your crust (including a gluten free option), sauce, cheese, and toppings, all for one price. The pie is popped into a scorching hot oven and one in just a few minutes, as opposed to the quarter hour a conventional pizza deck or conveyor oven take to go through the same process.
I tried out two today, at a pre opening fête. The «Athenian» comes with a thin crust, olive oil, herbs, chicken, garlic, olives, onion, peppers, feta, mozzarella/​provolone blend, fresh basil, and sun dried tomato purée.
The «High Five» is their version of an all meat pie, on a pan crust, with marinara, pepperoni, Italian sausage, bacon, ham, and a cheddar, mozz, provolone blend.
The «assembly line» is fast and furious, as is the oven time. At the end, they will ask you «for here or to go» and whether you want additional Parmesan or pepper flakes; if you’re eating in, those add-​ons are also on the table. Pie Five has the ‘magic’ coke dispensers, when you can crank out one or a combo of a hundred beverages, and also three kinds of ice tea, as well as some bottled drinks.
The 9 «pizzas were excellent, I preferred the thin crust, bubbly and charred, to the pan personally. High quality and kudos for the processed pork toppings.
.The company has about fifty units open, and are aiming for five hundred, coast to coast.
Pie Five people? Great job. Great pizza.

I had never heard of Pie Five before, but I received a flyer announcing the grand opening with coupon so I decided to check it out. At first, I was thinking it was just another pizza place, but quickly learned it is different in the fact that you get to create your own pizza and it is cooked very quickly. It is basically a fast casual style pizza place. Makes you think, why hasn’t this been done sooner?
I went there for lunch on a weekday. The establishment looked pretty nice and it was well staffed and fairly busy. I took a look at the menu and was able to order pretty much right away. I went with a pan style crust and picked out the ingredients. Wait time for it to cook was very quick! I would say it was ready to go in under 5 minutes as the name suggests!
So how was the pizza? Overall it was pretty good. The ingredients were fresh and overall it had a good taste. I figured I would be full after eating about ½ of it especially with the thicker crust, but I was able to eat the whole thing no problem.
I would definitely go back again and try other options like a different crust and maybe a different sauce and ingredients. Overall I recommend it if you are in the mood for pizza and looking for a fast casual restaurant for a good meal.

5 minute pizza is never going to get a 5 star review unless it comes with some weed or free beer. So don’t read my 4 stars as anything other than good.
Went in Sunday night, they have only been open a couple of days. VERY well staffed (I hope they don’t go out of business due to wages), and everybody had the right attitude. The guy behind the counter at the beginning either was somebody from another store or a super-​quick study: he confidently took the order and did a good job putting together the Farmer’s Market pie for my wife and the Buffalo Chicken pie for me. Crusts were reasonably circular, topping distribution was excellent, and the pies did, in fact, pop out in a couple of minutes cooked. Pricing for the «deal» is good (includes salad, dessert, and a «fountain beverage»), price for just the pie maybe a hair high… but then again, you get exactly what you want without waiting or haggling with people you are with for who likes what.
So, how does it taste? Well, I’m eating my leftovers now, so good enough to do that. More seriously, it exceeded our expectations… it’s good thin crust, so long as you like your crust very thin, and the toppings and sauce came together well. My wife said it would be a 3.5 for her if it took awhile, so once you count the quick turnaround time in it becomes a 4. I can’t review salad or dessert, we just got the pies.
So far as the negative reviews are concerned, I fully expect them to be swamped by good reviews in short order — seems like the concept is sound, the staff is good (definitely a better open than the the next-​door Jersey Mike’s was shortly after opening), the food is good, and the pricing isn’t bad. We are definitely going to give these guys more of our business.

So so disappointed in my Athenian pizza!!! One of the reasons I chose this one was because of the sun dried tomato purée. They didn’t even put it on my pizza and by the time I got home it was too late.
I honestly thought this place was going to be much better.

Enjoyed our first visit to Pie five and we’re thrilled with the selections and resulting pizzas and salads! Wow in just 5 minutes we had excellent pizzas, made to order.
The salads were terrific as well and the service, oh so friendly and accommodating.
It was a delight to see the staff all smiling and engaged with the customers.
We’ll be back and we posted pictures and comments on our Facebook pages to advise friends to check it out!

For a chain restaurant this is halfway decent fast food type pizza 2 stars for skimming on cheese and putting cinnamon in a turtle brownie and not disclosing about it.
This is the Chicagoland area packed with extraordinary pizza places. This doesnt compare to them.
I had the classic pan, tuscan mariana mozzarella and ricotta along with red onions and pineapple.
I asked easy on the sauce. Lady still put too much for my taste. I could have made her redo but was curious what itll end up like. She skimmed on the mozzarella really put it in a measuring cup and it was not even spread out evenly and dumped it on her palm and some cheese fell back into the container while she transferred the cheese on the pizza.
I asked for ricotta. She Skimmed on that as well.
Result was alot sauce on edge of crust bottom and no cheese. Crust is not extraordinary. It is not heavy or too airy. Just a food I would not turn down if I am in the right mood for. I just know what to do for next time and be firm on specifications.
Pizza was ok overall. Not a place to rush and gush about.
Turtle brownie with pop bundle cost was 9.99.
One of my pet peeves is added cinnamon to chocolate desserts and it overpowering taste over every other ingredients and not saying anything about it. I do love cinnamon but not when carmel, other toppings are added to the mix. It is just disgusting and insulting missing point of a sweet dessert to enchance the chocolate with cinnamon fails in this case with excessive useage. And even can tell it was a cheap cinnamon that was used.

This location does not open to the public until June 28^th but yesterday the local businesses got a special delivery from them. One of their employees came in and offered our staff pizzas on them. That was a very nice and generous offer.
I am not sure exactly what we got but it had sausage and pepperoni and green and black olives, and other things but I’m not quite sure. The crust was good and the pizza was very flavorful. My coworkers and I can’t wait until they open. We all loved the pizza very much and we will definitely be going to them for lunch. Kudos on treating the businesses and letting us experience your food before you open.