Best Local Pizza – Pizza Shuttle
Inexpensive personal-sized pizzas draw in students for lunch
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Location: 1601 W. 23rd St.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily
Total votes: 577
Best known for: Personal Pizzas
Year established in Lawrence: 1984
For students on a tight time frame and a tight budget, Pizza Shuttle fits the bill for many with its made-to-order personal pizzas.
Located on 23rd Street, Pizza Shuttle is students’ go-to pizza place. With the funky ceiling full of different paintings and a fun atmosphere, the restaurant is appealing to students across Lawrence.
Manager Gretchen Longmire is grateful that students gravitate toward Pizza Shuttle. “Students make up a huge amount of our sales,” Longmire said. “We want to do everything we can to keep them happy and coming back.”
They excel at getting students to return. Some students go to Pizza Shuttle multiple times a week.
Lawrence High junior Aubrey Goscha is especially fond of going to “Shuttle” when she needs to satisfy her pizza cravings.
“I like Pizza Shuttle because it has really good pizza, and it has the different sizes so I can finish one by myself,” Goscha said. “I always order cream cheese and bacon.”
Although Free State is across town from the restaurant, Firebirds also enjoy eating Pizza Shuttle regularly.
“I don’t go to Pizza Shuttle, Pizza Shuttle comes to me,” Free State junior Nixi Swedlund said. “I get delivery. It’s really good for being cheap. I like that it’s from Lawrence. It’s like a Lawrence classic. Their cream cheese and bacon pizza is probably heaven.”