Key Takeaways
- Newsweek just released its 2025 results for its Readers’ Choice poll.
- The winning pizza chain was chosen by panelists, contributors, and readers.
There are few foods that satisfy a crowd quite like pizza. With dozens of toppings, crusts, and sauces to choose from, everyone can have a favorite pizza they order for takeout or delivery. But, as important as the toppings you choose is the pizza chain you choose to order from.
So, as we enter tailgating season, and have football viewing parties, busy fall evenings, and the biggest pizza-ordering day of the year, Halloween, which pizza chain deserves your order? Newsweek released its 2025 Readers’ Choice results and the chain that reigned supreme might surprise you.
According to Newsweek’s panelists, contributors, and readers, the best pizza chain in America is Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings.
America’s Favorite Pizza Chain Is Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings
With just 50 locations across six states, Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings is certainly one of America’s smaller pizza chains—yet, it clearly has a passionate fanbase. The chain, with locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Florida, is known for its coal-fired oven, which gives its pizzas a distinctive look and flavor.
The pizzas have a crispy, thin crust with bubbly cheese and your favorite toppings. And, it’s not just the pizzas that see the 900-degree, coal-fired oven. Every one of Anthony’s hot menu items, from its sandwiches and garlic knots to its signature chicken wings, is baked in the coal-fired oven for extra flavor.
Anthony’s is currently celebrating being named America’s favorite pizza chain by giving back to its customers. Now through Sept. 30, it’s offering its 12-inch Cheese Pizza for just $9.99 when you dine in.
If you don’t have an Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings location near you, you can partake in one of Newsweek’s other top pizza chain winners. Marco’s Pizza, with its more than 1,100 locations, placed second, and Godfather’s Pizza, which began in Omaha, Nebraska, and now has more than 400 locations across the Midwest, placed third.
Following the Top 3 winners, you have Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in fourth place, Mellow Mushroom in fifth, Mountain Mike’s Pizza in sixth, Chicago’s Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria in seventh, Rosati’s Pizza in eighth, Domino’s in ninth, and the Detroit-style Jet’s Pizza in tenth.
Did your go-to slice make the list?
