Rudy’s launched an all-new pizza competition earlier this week to celebrate National Pizza Day 2025.
The competition, which opened on February 10th in Sheffield, spans across all Rudy’s locations and invites entrants to create their version of a classic Neapolitan pizza.
Hamish Bebbington, 23, a supervisor at Rudy’s Sheffield, said: “I’d tell people to go ahead and not be scared, any entry can be a winning entry, don’t just think that because you’ve never worked in a kitchen before you’re not welcome to enter, everyone is welcome to enter, and everyone should enter.”
The winner of the competition will have their pizza featured on Rudy’s menu as a limited-edition special across the nation.
Additional prizes include an Ooni Karu 2 pizza oven, a cookbook, two free pizzas each week for a year, and a half-day session with Rudy’s Academy training manager.
Matthew Clayton, 26, a Pizzaiolo at Rudy’s Sheffield, advising interested entrants, said: “Trial and error is the way. It’s going to go wrong at some point, but you’ve just got to go again and again and again until you get it right. Go wild.”
Rudy’s is highly customer-centred, with consistent efforts to ‘encourage and give back to the community’.
Attempts ‘to be fun, authentic, and committed’ are reflected by the competition which is ‘another way for the company to embody their values’.
Iris Yin, 21, an accounting student and customer, said: “I hadn’t heard of the competition at all which is a shame as it sounds cool.”
She added: “It’s a nice way to bring people together for something fun and light—it feels like we really need more of that right now with everything going on in the world.”
The top two finalists will compete at Rudy’s Pizza Academy on Portland Street in Manchester on Wednesday, April 2nd, before a winner is determined.
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 9th, when entries will be judged on taste, creativity, and adherence to Rudy’s trademark Neapolitan style.
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Alongside the competition, Rudy has teamed up with Napoli On The Road to craft an exclusive, limited-edition White Capricciosa pizza, available until March 3rd.
For more information on the eligibility criteria and entry instructions, visit Rudy’s official website here.