{"id":2609,"date":"2017-03-13T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2017-03-13T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T20:31:07","slug":"pi-day-at-blaze-pizza-and-whole-foods-market-on-the-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=2609","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day discounts at Blaze Pizza and Whole Foods Market on the Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2610\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2610\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2610\" src=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image001-1-300x201.png\" alt=\"Blaze Pizza has $3.14 pies on Pi Day, March 14, 2017 Credit: Blaze Pizza \" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image001-1-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/image001-1.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blaze Pizza has $3.14 pies on Pi Day, March 14, 2017<br \/>Credit: Blaze Pizza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pi Day, March 14, is tomorrow and people and businesses will be celebrating across the country\u2014including restaurants and food vendors on the Central Coast such as <a href=\"http:\/\/blazepizza.com\">Blaze Pizza<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\">Whole Foods Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blaze Pizza<\/strong>, which offers customers personalized pizza cooked in three minutes, has 185 restaurants\u2014mostly in the US, but also in Canada. It\u2019s celebrating Pi Day by offering<em><strong> $3.14 whole pizzas all day at all locations on March 14<\/strong><\/em>. Originally imagined as an unconventional \u201cpop-up\u201d event three years ago, Blaze\u2019s Pi Day celebration has become very popular. They expect to serve close to 250,000 pizzas on March 14, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whole Foods Market<\/strong> is celebrating Pi Day by offering customers <em><strong>$3.14 off both large bakery pies and large take-and-bake pizzas<\/strong><\/em>. Frozen products are excluded from this promotion.<\/p>\n<p>This deal is only valid on March 14 and available while supplies last at shops across the county including Bay Area ones like Capitola, Santa Cruz and Monterey. Varieties of pies and pizzas vary from store to store, but may include pumpkin pie, apple pie, gluten-free apple pie, cherry pie, pepperoni pizza, cheese pizza, and vegan pizza. All WFM pies and pizzas contain no hydrogenated fats, no bleached or bromated flours, and no artificial flavors or preservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some facts about Pi Day provided by Blaze Pizza:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14, to commemorate the irrational number of 3.141592653<\/li>\n<li>In 2009 the US government recognized March 14 as National Pi Day<\/li>\n<li>Pi, or \u03c0, is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It\u2019s an irrational number, meaning it cannot be written as a simple fraction<\/li>\n<li>March 14 is also Einstein\u2019s birthday. He was born in Germany in 1879<\/li>\n<li>The first organized Pi Day was in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Physicist Larry Shaw had the idea to celebrate the day by marching around a circle and then eating some pies. They still have the celebration today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local Blaze Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blazepizza.com\/locations\/almaden-plaza\">Blaze San Jose-Almaden<\/a> is at 5353 Almaden Expressway. Call (408) 440-2307 for details.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blazepizza.com\/locations\/marina-the-dunes\">Blaze Marina<\/a> is at The Dunes, 110 General Stilwell Dr. Call (831) 324-0246 for details.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blazepizza.com\/locations\/salinas-northridge-mall\">Blaze Salinas<\/a> is Northridge Mall, 796 Northridge Shopping Center. Call (831) 443-1123 for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more Blaze locations, including one in SF at Stonestown, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/blazepizza.com\/locations\/\">store locator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local Whole Foods Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/stores\/santacruz\">Whole Foods Market Santa Cruz<\/a> is located at 911 Soquel Ave. Call (831) 426-9901 for more information.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/stores\/capitola\/\">Whole Foods Market Capitola<\/a> is located at 1710 41st Ave. Call (831) 464-2900 for more information.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/stores\/monterey\">Whole Foods Market Monterey<\/a> is at 800 Del Monte Center, (831) 333-1600.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more Whole Foods Market locations, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/stores\/list\">store locator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on:<\/p>\n<p>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/santacruzfoodie\">@santacruzfoodie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tarafatemiwalker\/\">@tarafatemiwalker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SantaCruzFoodieExaminer\/\">@santacruzfoodieexaminer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi Day, March 14, is tomorrow and people and businesses will be celebrating across the country\u2014including restaurants and food vendors on the Central Coast such as Blaze Pizza and Whole Foods Market. 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