Round Table Pizza vegetarian options start with the veggie pizzas and a build-your-own that lets you skip the meat entirely, so meatless eaters have a real meal here. The catch is what’s hiding in the crust. Every Round Table crust contains both milk and egg, and there’s no vegan cheese anywhere in the system, so this is a friendly stop for lacto-ovo vegetarians but a tough one for vegans. This guide walks through what to order, what to avoid, and how to read the allergen chart before you commit. For more meatless restaurant roundups, start at What’s Vegetarian.
A Quick Look at Round Table Pizza
Round Table Pizza opened in 1959 when founder William R. Larson built his first location in Menlo Park, California, on El Camino Real. The chain takes its name from the round redwood tables Larson and his father built by hand, a nod to the King Arthur theme you still see in pizza names like Guinevere’s Garden Delight. The company spent decades as an employee-owned business before changing hands in the 2010s.
Today Round Table runs roughly 400 to 410 restaurants, with most of them on the West Coast across California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii. The brand is owned by FAT Brands Inc., the Atlanta-based parent that also runs Fatburger and Johnny Rockets. FAT Brands has been working through a financial restructuring, but franchise locations are still open and serving the same menu, so day-to-day ordering hasn’t changed.
Round Table Pizza Vegetarian Options: What to Order
Here’s how the main meatless picks line up. Vegetarian means it has no meat but may contain dairy or egg. Vegan means no animal products at all, and Round Table makes that hard because of the crust and cheese, so the table below only marks vegan where the official allergen chart shows no in-product animal ingredients.
| Menu Item | Vegetarian | Vegan |
|---|---|---|
| Guinevere’s Garden Delight | ✅ | ❌ |
| Gourmet Veggie (Creamy Garlic Sauce) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Cheese pizza | ✅ | ❌ |
| Build-your-own veggie pizza | ✅ | ❌ |
| Garlic Bread with Cheese | ✅ | ❌ |
| Garlic Parmesan Twists | ✅ | ❌ |
| Spinach Salad (no cheese) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Side Garden Salad (no croutons) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Garden Salad (with croutons) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Caesar Salad | ❌ | ❌ |
| French Fries / Garlic Fries | ✅ | ⚠️ |
| Onion Rings | ✅ | ⚠️ |
| Macaroni and Cheese | ✅ | ❌ |
| Cookies / Cinnamon Twists | ✅ | ❌ |
Vegetarian Pizzas at Round Table
Pizza is where vegetarians do best at Round Table. Two specialty pies are built around vegetables, and both keep the meat off the menu while keeping plenty of flavor on the pizza.
- Guinevere’s Garden Delight — tomatoes, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, and black olives on the zesty red sauce. This is the cleaner vegetarian choice because it skips the egg-and-milk white sauce.
- Gourmet Veggie — artichoke hearts, zucchini, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic, and red and green onions. It sits on the Creamy Garlic Sauce, which the allergen chart lists as containing both egg and milk, so this one is doubly off-limits for vegans even before the cheese.
- Build-your-own — start with red or zesty red sauce and load up on vegetable toppings like artichoke hearts, roasted garlic, fresh basil, green peppers, jalapeños, mushrooms, onions, pineapple, Roma tomatoes, black olives, spinach, and zucchini.
One topping note worth flagging: anchovies are an available pizza topping and the only fish-marked item on the chart. If you avoid fish, just say “no anchovy” when you order, and you’re covered.
Salads, Sides, and Appetizers
The salad lineup is a mixed bag. Some are genuinely vegan-friendly with a couple of swaps, and one is a trap.
- Spinach Salad — spinach, cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, and sunflower seeds. Order it without cheese and the allergen chart shows no in-product animal ingredients at all, which makes it the strongest plant-based pick on the whole menu.
- Side Garden Salad — greens, mushrooms, tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots. Ask for it with no croutons and the chart shows no in-product allergens for that version.
- Garden Salad — fine for vegetarians as served with croutons and dressing. For a vegan version, drop the croutons (they add wheat) and skip the cheese.
- Caesar Salad — skip it. The Caesar dressing carries a fish marking from anchovy, so it isn’t safe for strict fish-avoiders and is never vegan.
For sides, you’ve got French Fries, Garlic French Fries, Onion Rings, and House Chips, plus Garlic Bread with Cheese and Garlic Parmesan Twists. The twists and the breads carry egg, milk, and wheat, so they’re vegetarian but not vegan. Macaroni and Cheese is vegetarian too. The fried items are meatless, but the brief couldn’t confirm whether they share a fryer with wings or breaded items, so treat their vegan status as a question to ask your location.
Desserts and the Salad Bar
Round Table’s desserts are vegetarian but not vegan. The Chocolate Chip Cookie, Double Fudge Cookie, Chocolate Chip King Cookie, and Cinnamon Twists all list egg, milk, and wheat on the allergen chart. There’s no vegan dessert option here.
If a location has a salad bar, that’s your best build-it-yourself spot for a plant-based plate. The bar typically runs to lettuce blends, kale, spinach, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, cucumbers, peppers, olives, beans like garbanzo and kidney, four-bean and edamame, plus fruit. Top it with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, or red wine vinegar, all of which the chart lists with no in-product animal allergens.
What’s Vegan at Round Table Pizza?
Vegan options at Round Table are slim, and the chain says so itself. Round Table’s customer-service line, quoted across vegan guides, states the company “does not have a vegan offering, other than a salad.” That tracks with the allergen chart: every crust (Original, Pan, Heart-Shaped, Stuffed, and even Gluten-Free) lists both egg and milk, and there’s no vegan cheese in the system. So a vegan can’t get vegan pizza here at all, no matter how the toppings stack up.
What you can order vegan is a salad done right. Go with the Spinach Salad with no cheese, or the Side Garden Salad with no croutons, since both show no in-product animal ingredients on the chart. Dress it with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, or red wine vinegar, and grab a crushed red pepper packet if you want some heat. The marinara, zesty red, BBQ, and Polynesian sauces don’t show egg, milk, or fish on the chart either, but there’s no vegan vehicle to put them on once you rule out the crust. What to avoid is straightforward: any pizza, both garlic breads, the twists, the mac and cheese, every dessert, and the Caesar salad.
Special Dietary Requirements and Allergies
Round Table offers a Gluten-Free crust, but read the fine print before you assume it solves anything. The allergen chart lists the Gluten-Free crust with egg and milk just like the standard crusts, and a gluten-free crust made in a shared kitchen isn’t a guarantee against cross-contact with wheat. If you have celiac disease or a serious wheat allergy, talk to the location about how they handle it.
A few more allergen notes from the chart. The pan spray used on the cooking discs contains soy (soybean oil and soy lecithin), which matters for soy allergies even though it doesn’t change vegan status. Croutons and crouton packets add wheat, so specify “no croutons” on any salad you want kept simple. The chart tracks the major allergens, but it doesn’t address shared-fryer cross-contact or the source of the cheese rennet, so those stay unconfirmed. The published allergen chart is dated 10-6-22 and recipes can vary by location, so always confirm details with your specific restaurant. You can pull the full allergen guide from Round Table’s official site before you order.
Tips for Vegetarians at Round Table Pizza
- Pick Guinevere’s Garden Delight over the Gourmet Veggie if you want to dodge the egg-and-milk Creamy Garlic Sauce. It’s the cleaner vegetarian pie.
- Say “no anchovy” out loud on any pizza or salad if you avoid fish. Anchovy is the only fish-marked topping, and it’s easy to leave off.
- Skip the Caesar entirely. The dressing carries fish from anchovy, so it isn’t a safe vegetarian pick for fish-avoiders.
- Build your own pie with red or zesty red sauce and stack the vegetable toppings if the specialty veggie pizzas don’t hit what you want.
- For anything close to vegan, order a salad with no cheese and no croutons and dress it with oil and vinegar or balsamic.
- Don’t assume the fries are vegan. The fryer protocol isn’t documented, so ask whether they share oil with wings or breaded items.
- Pull up the allergen chart before you order and confirm with your location, since recipes can vary and the chart is a couple of years old.
Round Table Pizza vegetarian options: frequently asked questions
Conclusion
Round Table is a comfortable stop if you eat dairy and eggs. The veggie pizzas and build-your-own give you a real meatless dinner, and the salad bar fills in the gaps. If you’re vegan, set your expectations low and plan on a no-cheese, no-crouton salad with oil and vinegar, because the crust and cheese rule out everything else. The single most important move is to read the allergen guide and confirm with your location before you order, since the chart is dated and recipes vary. For more on ordering out, see our guide to eating vegetarian and vegan at restaurants and browse the full restaurant roundups. You might also like our breakdowns for Pizza Hut and Domino’s.
