Home Run Inn Launches Frozen Pan Pizza
The Chicago pizzeria is bringing a thick-crust pan pizza to grocery freezers in the Chicago area.
Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Italian Food
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Home Run Inn has launched a new pan pizza sold in the freezers of Chicago-area Jewel and Tony's Fresh Market stores. The thick-crust pizza is made from scratch with all-natural ingredients and comes in five 9-inch varieties.
Why it matters
The launch extends a Chicago pizzeria that has operated for more than 100 years into the frozen grocery aisle for home cooks in the area. It also comes with a promotion in which customers ordering an extra-large cheese or sausage pizza at Chicago-area restaurants receive a free frozen pan pizza.
The frozen pan pizza comes in five 9-inch varieties and is made from scratch with all-natural ingredients, with pricing not disclosed in the available information. The free pan pizza offer applies to extra-large cheese or sausage pizza orders at Chicago-area restaurants, and the extraction does not say how long the promotion runs.
The players
Home Run Inn
Home Run Inn is a Chicago pizzeria known for its tavern-style pizza with square-cut thin crust slices, which has operated in the city for more than a century.
Jewel
Jewel is a Chicago-area grocery chain that carries the new Home Run Inn pan pizza in its freezer sections.
Tony's Fresh Market
Tony's Fresh Market is a Chicago-area grocery chain that stocks the new Home Run Inn pan pizza in all of its stores.
The details
The thick-crust pan pizza is stocked in the freezers of all Chicago-area Jewel and Tony's Fresh Market stores. Home Run Inn's original offering was tavern-style pizza with square-cut thin crust slices, and the new pan pizza expands the brand's lineup into a different crust style.
Timeline
Home Run Inn's Chicago operations span more than 100 years.
The pan pizza launch was announced in November 2026.
Culture Shift
The pan pizza extends Home Run Inn beyond the square-cut thin-crust tavern-style pizza that defined the brand for more than 100 years. It moves a Chicago restaurant tradition into the frozen aisle, where thick-crust pan pizza has become a familiar option for home cooks.
Shoppers at Jewel and Tony's Fresh Market in the Chicago area can find the five 9-inch pan pizza varieties in the freezer section. Customers ordering an extra-large cheese or sausage pizza at participating Chicago-area restaurants can request the free frozen pan pizza offer.
The takeaway
A familiar Chicago pizza style is now available in grocery freezers, giving local shoppers an easy way to try Home Run Inn's thick-crust offering at home. Checking the freezer aisles at Jewel and Tony's Fresh Market is the simplest way to find it.
Further reading
For more on regional pizza traditions, browse Italian Food coverage.
Source note: This article includes information reported by NBC Chicago.
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