If there’s any brand that takes their company values seriously, it’s Toppers. From January 16th until April 23rd, the pizza giant is featuring two new pizzas, Buffalo Chicken Mac ‘N Cheese and Sausiago. The pizzas recipes were inspired by popular combinations created by customers after Topper’s “straight-up” pricing push, which launched in August 2016 and enables customers to order additional toppings for no extra cost. And with all of Toppers’ amazing toppings, like hand-pinched Italian sausage and nacho cheese, who would ever want to limit themselves to just two?

“The straight-up pricing unlocks the customer's ability to get what they want because they aren’t defined by the price,” says Donette Beattie, Toppers vice president of supply chain. “By giving customers the freedom to pick their toppings, we got to see what was popular, take it from their playbook and put it in our own house recipes.”

The Buffalo Chicken Mac ‘N Cheese boasts the brand’s famous creamy cheese sauce and macaroni noodles, topped with mozzarella, cheddar, buffalo chicken and bacon, drizzled with hot buffalo sauce. The Sausiago is baked with homemade pizza sauce and hand-pinched Italian sausage, smothered in mozzarella and asiago, topped with Italian seasoning.

“Through promotions inspired by our customer’s creations, we’re honing in on offerings that are desirable and enhance the success of Toppers,” says Beattie. “There’s a group of consumers who don’t want to spend a lot of time putting together an order, but there’s another group who want to have more choices. We take from the creative side of our customer base to come up with awesome combinations. When we get to try the recipes for ourselves, it becomes a no brainer.”

Continuing to offer limited-time promotions inspired by customers’ creations, Toppers is constantly in the kitchen trying out popular combinations. The pizza brand, which is known for taking unexpected ingredients that are trending and bringing them to the pizza category, is excited to continue offering pizzas that are as unique as they are crave-worthy.

“It’s a supply chain dream,” says Beattie. “We’re just kind of rearranging things that are already popular, but in unexpected ways. Anything has the potential to move to promotional feature and earn the right to stay there if the guests tell us they love it.”

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Nick Powills, CFE, founded No Limit Agency in 2008 and serves as Chief Brand Strategist for the Chicago-based firm. No Limit is a full-service communications agency that establishes and elevates brands by bridging Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, Digital, and a lot of creativity, to best strategize well-rounded and successful campaigns for 50+ global franchise brands. By presenting visionary ideas and building real relationships, No Limit is able to create effective media branding strategies to help companies grow. Nick currently leads a staff of writers, media strategists, designers, social media experts and digital producers in an office think-tank where brands are humanized for strong, compelling media stories. Prior to starting No Limit at the age of 27, Nick spent four years working at a franchise PR agency where he mastered the art of building rapport with media outlets and creating newsworthy pitches for earned media placements. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Drake University in Iowa.