Home Run Inn, ranked among the top 10 frozen pizza brands sold nationally in the USA and number one in the Chicagoland area, Is teaming up with Vienna Beef and the Chicago Cubs baseball team to make Chi-town Pizza available for fans to dig into at Wrigley Field concession stands for a limited time through July 6.
“Home Run Inn Pizza topped with the savory spices of Vienna’s Italian Beef, the Official Italian Beef of the Chicago Cubs, and giardiniera are a memorable combo not to be missed. It’s an iconic blend of two great Chicago food traditions,” said Gina Bolger, chief marketing officer and fourth-generation family member of Home Run Inn.
The eight-inch Chi-town Pizza features Home Run Inn’s special crust, sliced mozzarella and signature tomato sauce topped with Vienna Beef’s thinly sliced, slow-roasted beef and tangy homemade giardiniera. Fans can indulge in this new offering starting Tuesday, July 1 at select Wrigley Field concession stands for a limited time only.
About Home Run Inn Pizza
Home Run Inn Pizza, regarded as Chicago’s original tavern-style thin crust pizza, was first served to bar customers by Mary and Vincent Grittani open the original Tavern at the corner of 31st Street and Kildare Avenue on the South Side of Chicago.
After returning from World War II in the 1940s, Nick Perrino and his mother-in-law, Mary, began placing complimentary crispy thin-crust pizza, cut into squares, at the bar counter as a snack to go with cold beer. This was well received among patrons, some of whom started asking for pizza more than drinks.
The family’s original recipe from Bari, Italy of hand-pinched crispy crust, zesty sauce and plentiful cheese soon became a hit. Thus, Home Run Inn began selling the pizza, and the famous Tavern-Style recipe took off.
In the late 1960s, a long-time customer from Wisconsin suggested the idea of frozen pizzas. He often asked for his tavern-style pizza partially baked, explaining that he would put them in his ice box when he got home to bake later. Inspired by this notion, Home Run Inn began par-baking pizzas, freezing them, and delivering them to local corner grocery stores, thus becoming one of the pioneers of the frozen pizza business.
Today the company operates six pizzerias throughout the Chicagoland area and distributes frozen pizza products from coast to coast. It is currently the Official Pizza of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, and is sold at Chicago’s Midway International Airport and O’Hare International Airport.
About Vienna Beef
Founded in 1893, hot dogs and sausages from Vienna Beef are made following its time-honored original recipes, with premium domestic beef hickory-smoked for authentic flavor. Austrian-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichel and Samuel Ladany introduced frankfurters at the Columbian Exposition (also know as Chicago’s World’s Fai) in 1893 and the same recipe is still used 132 years later. The company also produces pickles and condiments, soups, chili and other premium quality foods.
About the Cubs
The Chicago Cubs franchise, a charter member of Major League Baseball’s National League since 1876, has won the National League pennant 17 times and was the first team to win back-to-back World Series titles in the 1907 and 1908 seasons. In 2016, the Cubs made history again when the team won its first World Series in 108 years, ending the longest championship drought in North American sports. Known for its ivy-covered outfield walls, hand-operated scoreboard and famous Marquee, iconic Wrigley Field has been the home of the Chicago Cubs since 1916 and is the second oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball.
