The Zachary’s Pizza Art Contest is ON!

Submissions are due May 31, 2017. For details, click here.

What inspires you? Nature? Love? Food? Pizza? Hint, there is a right answer to that question. 😉

For many past winners of the Zachary’s Art Contest, the San Francisco Bay Area serves as the most perfect source of inspiration! We’ve  seen lots of entries that applaud our world-famous bridges, sights in the Bay Area, and Northern California icons. Are you feeling inspired?!

The East Bay Express just published a super fun Guide to College Avenue! It’s chock-full of info on food, coffee, adult beverages, shopping, art and community spaces. It’s nearly Spring (!!!) and nothing beats strolling down College Avenue, supporting local shops and business and being a part of our community.

Check out the Food and Drink page for a glimpse of yours truly 🙂

Big news! The first ever Zachary’s yoga class took place on Thursday, January 5th and it was AMAZING!

Zachary’s is an employee owned company (read more here: https://zacharys.com/about-us/our-people/) via our ESOP. We have a committee of dedicated employee owners who work to educate the crew about the ESOP itself and the benefits and responsibilities of being an employee owner. This year, the ESOP Committee decided to focus their efforts on a theme: Fit and Clean 2017. To kick off the year, Zachary’s hosted a yoga class, right here at our College Avenue location in Oakland, CA.

The fantastic and fun, Molly Pearson, agreed to lead the way. Amidst the cacophony that is an early morning at Zachary’s (think drilling, hammering, an industrial grater slicing major amounts of mozzarella, trucks delivering loads of produce, flour, pizza boxes and more, the whirring of the Hobart, the playful banter of the morning crew… you get the picture), a brave bunch of employee owners donned their yoga gear and stretched and twisted and Warriored together.

Though peaceful it was not, the morning was certainly full of beauty and joy. Yoga, pizza and some pretty fabulous employee owners made for a special start to another day at Zachary’s.

We have a pretty amazing crew. We’ve got folks who have been with the company since 1983 and folks who just started last week. We have stunningly fast pizza makers and exceptionally warm and welcoming hosts and servers. These amazing folks thrive in a chaotic and sometimes downright wild environment. No one, in our humble opinion, deserves a more fantastic holiday party than these truly fabulous employee owners.

We celebrated in style at the Lake Chalet in downtown Oakland.

October is National Employee Owner month! Woo-hoo! We kicked off the month by sending two of our fantastic employee owners, Katie Leary and Tabitha King to the ESOP Association Conference in Tahoe.

Tabitha and Katie came back from the conference filled with ideas and employee-owner enthusiasm. Here are some of their highlights from the conference:

• Being around people who were super enthusiastic about engaging their employees and fostering the ownership mindset
• Learning more about how an ESOP can benefit the company and individual employees
• Getting lots of ideas for fun ESOP events and ways to engage employees in what it means to be an employee owner
• Seeing other companies’ displays of how they celebrate their employees
• Nerding out with fellow SF bay area ESOP members like Recology
• Playing beginner’s poker and not knowing how to bluff
• Getting a glowing review of Zachary’s pizza from Jackson Hardware CEO and ESOP Conference president Matthew Olson

As you can see, Tabitha and Katie stayed busy, learned a lot and had some fun. We are so excited that they were able to attend the conference and come back with so much to share!

We LOVE Halloween at Zachary’s!

And, lucky for us, a lot of our fabulous customers love celebrating Halloween with us! If you are interested in picking up pizzas on Halloween, we suggest ordering them today. We will have your pizza ready at the exact time you want to pick it up! Better yet, order a half-baked pizza to pick up on Halloween morning, so you can avoid the to-go line at night!

Space in our ovens fills up fast, so reserve your spot now!

Check out some of our fantastic crew costumes from Halloween 2015!

TUES 9/13 WE CELEBRATE 10 YEARS IN SAN RAMON! Please join us!

$1 PINTS (ONE DOLLAR = BEER!)
$20.06 AWARD-WINNING LARGE STUFFED SPINACH & MUSHROOM PIZZA
$10.00 LARGE THIN CHEESE PIZZA
FREE LIMITED EDITION TSHIRT WITH PURCHASE OVER $50 OR MORE
LIVE MUSIC AT NIGHT The Lost Weekend
FUN FOR FAMILIES AND KIDS!

Dine-in or take-out ($1 beer not available for take-out)
Come for lunch or dinner – MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW – SPACE IS LIMITED 925.244.1222

3110 Crow Canyon Place, San Ramon

We are super excited to announce that we were voted “Best Pizza” by the amazing readers of Diablo Magazine! This is always an incredible honor; we know the competition is fierce. Many thanks to Diablo and a huge congrats to the other winners!

From the article, “Order the stuffed spinach and mushroom deep dish at Zachary’s, and you’ll feel the glow that comes from supporting an employee-owned company.”

Check out Diablo’s Best of the East Bay 2016 list here!

Woo-hoo! We are pumped!

We had a blast with the kids from Sprouts this past Tuesday at our College Avenue location in Oakland! Sprouts brings together Bay Area youth from all backgrounds to learn about food and cooking with Bay Area chefs in Bay Area restaurants.

We chopped some veggies, made some mini-Zachary’s pizzas and folded a lot of togo boxes! These kids are pretty awesome! Thanks for stopping by Sprouts!

We’re super pumped about being featured in this video from Visit California (California Travel & Tourism Commission) and California Dream Eater! CHECK IT OUT – click on image or HERE!