Fox Restaurant Concepts says goodbye to its Fly Bye pizza shops in Phoenix

Fox Restaurant Concepts said goodbye to its Fly Bye pizza restaurants, which started in Phoenix as a ghost kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both Fly Bye locations closed this week, but their square pan pizza creations are not disappearing completely.

That’s because Fox’s Doughbird location on 5600 N. Seventh Street, south of Bethany Home Road, will serve Fly Bye favorites through its new “Doughbird on the Fly” window.

In a Wednesday announcement on social media, Fly Bye bid farewell “after careful consideration” without giving a specific reason.

“We have made the decision to close our two Fly Bye locations,” the announcement said. “Six years ago, Fly Bye began as a ghost kitchen, and thanks to the passion of our team and the support of our community, it grew into something we never could have imagined.”

Fly Bye began in December 2020 as a takeout pizza and crispy chicken option at Fox’s Culinary Dropout restaurant on Seventh Street south of Bethany Home Road.

The first stand-alone Fly Bye opened at Desert Ridge Marketplace in July 2022, and the second shop debuted on Camelback Road near 40th Street in Arcadia later that year.

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