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title: "QSR: How Healthy Pizza Became a Reality in Quick Service"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/d88bc5aa-2a6a-4bd8-8f3b-151ec2f0e03c
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/qsr-how-healthy-pizza-became-a-reality-in-quick-service-8713
category: "Pizza"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Pizza"
published: 2016-12-20T16:11:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:12:34.749Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/44dc3e7edb7d0d2df428e29468ef7d709808.jpg
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# QSR: How Healthy Pizza Became a Reality in Quick Service

**TL;DR:** The pizza industry is shifting towards customizable, whole grain, and organic options due to consumer demand for healthier choices. Major brands like Papa John's are investing in healthier ingredients, removing artificial colors and corn syrup.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-12-20. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/qsr-how-healthy-pizza-became-a-reality-in-quick-service-8713).*

## Story

Given how the demand for healthy food options have increased in the fast casual industry, it comes as no surprise that pizza brands are jumping on board, too. For those who are struggling to think of pizza as ever being healthy, the pizza industry is, in many ways, changing the idea of what healthy is: no longer does it mean low-fat, low-carb or low-calorie, but now it’s shifting towards customizable, whole grain and organic.

“People want healthier choices. They want to know more about the ingredients being used,” Nicole Quartuccio Ring, vice president of nutrition strategy for restaurant nutritional analysis experts Healthy Dining Finder, told QRS. “And it’s not just a fad. This is going to become the new way consumers eat and choose the restaurants they go to.”

As smaller chains create concepts based around health-conscious pizza, even major brands like Papa John’s are investing to get rid of ingredients like artificial colors and corn syrup.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Papa Johns (company)
- pizza industry (topic)
- healthy options (topic)
- consumer demand (topic)
- organic options (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/qsr-how-healthy-pizza-became-a-reality-in-quick-service-8713). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/d88bc5aa-2a6a-4bd8-8f3b-151ec2f0e03c).