Looking for Mazzio’s vegetarian options? This Tulsa-born pizza chain has a real veggie pizza, a self-serve salad bar, and a short list of cheese-based sides. You just need to know what to skip. We checked the current menu against what Mazzio’s does and doesn’t disclose, so what about the vegetarians don’t have to guess at the counter.
A Quick Look at Mazzio’s
Ken Selby opened a one-man pizza shop called The Pizza Parlor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1961. He left teaching in 1965 and opened a second Tulsa location, renaming the business Ken’s Pizza around his spicy red sauce and thin crust. More than 100 Ken’s Pizza locations existed by 1975. Selby launched a bigger concept in 1979 and called it Mazzio’s, adding thicker pizza, more meat and cheese options, subs, and a salad bar. A second rebrand came in September 2024, to Mazzio’s Pizza & Wings, built around a new wings lineup. Ownership has stayed with the Selby family the whole way. Lori Carver, one of Ken Selby’s children, now runs the company as president and CEO from Tulsa. Around 140 locations operate today across Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri.
Mazzio’s Vegetarian Options: What to Order
Mazzio’s isn’t built around vegetarian eating, but there’s more here than a plain cheese pizza. The table below covers the main items worth knowing about.
| Menu Item | Vegetarian | Vegan |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Veggie Pizza (tomatoes, mushrooms, red onions, green peppers, black olives) | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (cheese, dough not confirmed) |
| Create Your Own Pizza, no meat toppings | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (same caveats) |
| Six Cheese Bake (Alfredo pasta) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (cheese, cream) |
| Spaghetti with marinara (no meatballs or meat sauce) | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (sauce ingredients not published) |
| Mazzio’s House Salad (greens, tomatoes, red onions, cucumber, cheddar, croutons) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (cheese, likely egg in croutons) |
| Endless Fresh Salad Bar (build your own) | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (varies by topping and location) |
| Garlic Cheese Toast | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (cheese, butter) |
| Cheese Dippers | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (cheese, butter) |
| Side of Fries (Italian herb seasoning) | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (shared-fryer status not disclosed) |
| Cinnamon Sticks | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (dough, icing) |
| Traditional or boneless wings, any flavor | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Toasted Ravioli, Chef Salad, Chicken Caesar Salad, hoagies | ❌ No (meat) | ❌ No |
Pizza: The Easiest Vegetarian Order
Fresh Veggie is the only specialty pizza built without meat, topped with tomatoes, mushrooms, red onions, green peppers, black olives, and toasted herbs. Want more control? Build a Create Your Own pizza and skip the meat toppings. Vegetable toppings include artichokes, black olives, green peppers, jalapeños, mushrooms, pineapple, red onions, and tomatoes. Pick from five crusts: Thin ‘N’ Crispy, Hand-Tossed, Stuffed Crust, Deep Pan, or Cauliflower/Gluten-Free. Extra cheese comes in four forms, the 4-Cheese Blend, Mozzarella, Feta, or Cheddar. None of the pizza sauces contain meat, from Mazzio’s Traditional Red to the Alfredo and Garlic Basil Olive Oil, so mixing sauces and vegetable toppings is safe.
Two specialty pizzas look tempting but aren’t vegetarian as served. Chicken Spinach Alfredo pairs grilled chicken with a spinach Alfredo base. Greek pizza adds grilled chicken to olives, artichokes, pepperoncinis, tomatoes, mozzarella, and feta. Both would work meat-free, so ask if your location will build either one that way. Full meat-topping options for Create Your Own pizzas include bacon, beef, Canadian bacon, grilled chicken, shaved ham, Italian sausage, and pepperoni, worth knowing if you’re ordering for a table that isn’t all vegetarian.
Sides, Salads, and Starters
Salad bar access varies by store. Where it exists, the Endless Fresh Salad Bar is the strongest vegetarian option on the menu, self-serve and built around vegetables, beans, and cheese. Packaged salads work too: House Salad has mixed greens, tomatoes, red onions, cucumber, cheddar, and croutons, no meat involved. Garlic Cheese Toast and Cheese Dippers cover starters, both built on dough with a four-cheese blend and garlic butter. Skip Loaded Cheese Dippers, topped with bacon, sausage, and pepperoni, and skip Toasted Ravioli, filled with sausage and cheese instead of cheese alone. Dressing choices lean dairy-heavy, so check what’s on hand before assuming one is meat-free.
Pasta and Bakes
Six Cheese Bake is a straightforward vegetarian pick, an Alfredo pasta bake with no meat added. Spaghetti comes with a choice of marinara, meatballs, or meat sauce, so ask for marinara only if you’re skipping meat. Lasagna works the same way. Build your own with Alfredo, Sweet Red Marinara, or Red & White sauce, leave off any meat topping, and you’ve got a vegetarian lasagna built with ricotta. Chicken Alfredo Bake is the one baked pasta to skip. Its chicken is mixed straight into the sauce, not served on the side.
What’s Vegan at Mazzio’s?
Vegan options at Mazzio’s are genuinely limited, and most of what looks vegan comes with a caveat. There’s no vegan cheese on the menu, so anything topped with cheese, including the Fresh Veggie pizza as served, isn’t vegan unless you order it without. A 2011 vegan blog post claims Mazzio’s corporate confirmed the thin and original crust dough has no milk or eggs. That claim is more than a decade old, though, with no current official statement backing it up, so treat it as unconfirmed. Strict vegans should stick to a Create Your Own pizza with no cheese and only vegetable toppings, or a salad bar plate with the cheese and any egg-based dressing left off. Call your location first to confirm its crust and dough ingredients.
Special Dietary Requirements and Allergies
Mazzio’s doesn’t publish an allergen guide or ingredient list online. Official menu PDFs list calories only, with no breakdown of protein, carbs, or fat. Both note that additional nutrition information is available on request in-store. That gap matters for a few things: whether the cheese uses animal or microbial rennet, whether the marinara or Alfredo sauces contain animal-derived ingredients, and whether the dough uses lard or vegetable shortening, none of it confirmed from home. One warning is public, though: the Cauliflower/Gluten-Free crust is made in a kitchen with gluten exposure risk, so Mazzio’s doesn’t recommend it for celiac disease. Call your local restaurant directly for anything else.
Tips for Vegetarians at Mazzio’s
- Order the Fresh Veggie pizza or build your own with vegetable toppings only, no special request needed.
- Not every Mazzio’s has the Endless Fresh Salad Bar, so check before you go if that’s the easiest route to a full vegetarian meal.
- Marinara-only spaghetti or lasagna gets you pasta without meat sauce or meatballs, just say so when you order.
- Loaded Cheese Dippers and Toasted Ravioli both look like sides but come with meat mixed in, so skip them.
- Kids’ meals aren’t automatically vegetarian either. Mini pizza and Six Cheese Bake work, but boneless wings don’t.
- Cheese, dough, and sauce ingredients aren’t published online, so call ahead if you need to confirm them.
- Going vegan means asking for pizza with no cheese, since Mazzio’s doesn’t offer a dairy-free alternative.
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Conclusion
Real vegetarian options at Mazzio’s come down to the Fresh Veggie pizza, a build-your-own pie with vegetable toppings, the salad bar where it’s available, and a handful of cheese-based sides and pasta bakes. Vegan eating here takes more work, since there’s no dairy-free cheese and key ingredients like the dough and marinara aren’t officially disclosed. Check our full guide to eating vegetarian and vegan at restaurants for more on eating out without meat, browse more restaurant guides, or see what’s vegetarian at other pizza chains like Jet’s Pizza and Round Table Pizza.
