What Are The Vegan Options At Pizza King?

Pizza King is an Indiana pizza chain, headquartered in Muncie, known for a thin crust cut into squares and for ground pepperoni and sausage spread to the edge. Its own advertising line is “Good to the very edge”.

Answer: Pizza King publishes more than most small chains — a 12-page Nutritional Guide with a cholesterol column, plus three full ingredient statements — and that data contradicts several of this page’s old recommendations outright. It publishes no allergen grid, marks nothing vegan, and offers no vegan cheese.

Corrections: what this page got wrong

Checked against Pizza King’s own published documents on 31 July 2026:

• The cauliflower crust was listed as a vegan-friendly crust option. It is not. Pizza King publishes the supplier spec sheet, and the product’s own title is 10″ Gluten Free Par-Baked Cauliflower Parmesan Pizza Crust. Its ingredient statement reads, verbatim: “Cauliflower, Water, Brown Rice Flour, Tapioca Starch, Parmesan Cheese (Pasteurized Part Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, & Enzymes), Cane Sugar, Yeast, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Xanthan Gum, Salt, Garlic Powder.” The old text even called it a “parmesan pizza crust” and still listed it. Removed.
• “Ranch” was listed among sauces described as “most… vegan-friendly.” Pizza King’s guide gives Ranch Dressing a cholesterol value in every portion it publishes: 5 mg (side-salad portion), 10 mg (chef-salad portion) and 25 mg (cup). Removed.
• A cheese sauce was listed among the vegan sauces. The item name this page used does not exist in Pizza King’s published data at all. The chain’s published cheese sauce is Que Bueno Cheese Sauce, and it carries 10 mg of cholesterol. Both the invented name and the recommendation have been removed.
• “Cheese Pizza… we’re hoping that Pizza King has [vegan cheese].” Hope is not a source. Pizza King offers no vegan cheese anywhere in its guide or on its menu, and every plain-pizza row carries cholesterol: 55 mg (8 in), 70 (10 in), 105 (12 in), 140 (14 in), 180 (16 in), 70 (small pan), 105 (medium pan), 215 (medium pan twins). Removed.
• “Spaghetti Alfredo A La Carte… many spaghetti Alfredo is suitable for vegans too.” Pizza King’s own row gives it 35 mg cholesterol and 7 g saturated fat. Plain Spaghetti A La Carte carries 25–35 mg depending on size, and the only spaghetti sauce Pizza King publishes is Spaghetti Meat Sauce. Both removed.
• Garlic Bread was the page’s warmest add-on recommendation. It carries 10 mg cholesterol (garlic cheese bread: 45 mg).
• Chocolate Chip Cookies were in the add-ons list. Pizza King publishes the full ingredient statement, which ends “CONTAINS: EGG, MILK, SOY, WHEAT“.
• “The Veggie Feast” was this page’s single headline recommendation (“a taste of heaven!”). There is no Veggie Feast row in Pizza King’s Nutritional Guide. The guide’s own combination topping product is called Royal Feast Mix — a meat mix at 20 mg cholesterol on an 8-inch pizza. The claim has been removed pending confirmation from a store-level ordering menu, which Pizza King’s platform does not expose without selecting a specific store.
• The salad dressings. Six of the eleven Pizza King publishes carry cholesterol, including two this page treated as vegan-adjacent: “Honey Poppy Seed” is published as Ken’s Poppy Seed, 10 mg, and “1000 Island” as Ken’s 1000 Island, under 5 mg. “Bleu Cheese” is published as Roquefort, 10 mg. “Diet French” and “Diet Italian” are not published under those names.
• “It’s easy to prepare them so you can always ask to skip the dairy products.” Removed. Pizza King’s dressings are bottled branded products — Ken’s and Monarch — not house preparations. A store cannot remove an ingredient from a sealed bottle.
• Corporate history and leadership. A paragraph attributing a specific explanation of the franchise model to a named Executive Vice President has been removed, along with the 1957/1965/1966 founding chronology and the list of states holding franchise rights. pizzaking.com publishes no history page, no leadership page and no franchise page — the site is eight pages: home, nutrition, discounts, feedback, a seasonal page and off-site links. Attributing a quotation to a named individual with no source is not something this site should do.
• The 36-entry Indiana address list has been removed. pizzaking.com does not publish addresses; locations live on a separate ordering platform that was not verified store by store.

What Pizza King publishes — and how old it is

From pizzaking.com/nutrition.php:

• A 12-page Nutritional Guide covering pizza by size, toppings, subs, salads, dressings, sides, cups and sauces, cookies, sandwiches, spaghetti and drinks. Columns: Calories, Calories from Fat, Total Fat, Saturated Fat, Trans Fat, Cholesterol, Sodium, Total Carbohydrate, Dietary Fiber, Sugar, Protein.
• Three item-level ingredient statements, all supplier spec sheets: the cauliflower crust, Stella’s Gourmet Pizza Brownie and Stella’s Gourmet Chewy Gooey Pizza Cookie.

Currency warning. The main Nutritional Guide PDF’s embedded creation date is 30 April 2017 — roughly nine years old — and the document carries no revision stamp on its face. It still lists Anchovie Filets, Roquefort Dressing and Nestea. The cauliflower crust sheet is dated 01/01/2020 on its face. Neither should be treated as current data, and a supplier could have reformulated since.

The guide’s own disclaimer, printed on every page: “The calorie values provided are based on standard company recipes and portion size. Menu items are hand-prepared and calorie values may vary from stated amount as it is an average. FDA recommends 2000 calories daily diet.”

Pizza King publishes no allergen grid at all, and no cross-contamination or shared-fryer statement anywhere. Both absences matter.

How to read the cholesterol column — one direction only

Dietary cholesterol comes only from animal sources, so a cholesterol figure above zero means animal ingredients are present. That makes this column genuinely useful, and it is why so many of the corrections above are firm.

But zero does not mean vegan. Plant fats, honey and some milk fractions all round to 0.0 mg. Use this column to rule items out. Never use it to rule an item in.

The three ingredient statements — all three items are out

• Cauliflower crust — contains Parmesan Cheese (pasteurized part skim milk). Its own allergen line reads “Free of Wheat, Egg, Soy, Corn, and Nuts”, with milk conspicuously absent from that list, plus “*Manufactured on equipment which processes milk & egg”.
• Stella’s Gourmet Pizza Brownie — “CONTAINS: EGG, MILK, SOY WHEAT”. Ingredients include butterfat (milk), egg yolk, dried egg whites and whey.
• Stella’s Gourmet Chewy Gooey Pizza Cookie — “CONTAINS: EGG, MILK, SOY, WHEAT”. Ingredients include milk fat, whey, pasteurized whole egg and nonfat milk.

Items with 0.0 mg cholesterol — the honest shortlist

These are the items Pizza King publishes at zero cholesterol. None of them is confirmed vegan. Pizza King publishes no ingredients for any of them, so each carries a named unknown:

• Breadstix — 430 cal. The best-supported item on the whole menu, and the old page gave it one bare bullet. Unknown: the dough.
• French Fries (Pizza King) — 480 cal (child 240). Unknown: the fryer. Pizza King also fries chicken fingers and publishes no fryer statement.
• Side Salad — 110 cal, and Giant Garden Salad — 260 cal. Unknowns: the “crackers” the menu mentions, which are not in the guide, and the dressing, since most published dressings carry cholesterol.
• Pizza Sauce — 5 cal, 0 g fat. The cleanest published profile of any sauce, and the old page’s vegan sauce list omitted it entirely.
• Bar B-Q Sauce — 210 cal, 46 g sugar. Not ruled out, but honey and molasses are common in barbecue sauce and neither would show as cholesterol.
• Dill Butter — 390 cal, 43 g fat, 0.0 mg cholesterol. This is the sharpest open question on the menu: those numbers in a product called “butter” are what you would expect of a margarine-style spread, but Pizza King says nothing. Do not assume either way — ask.
• All vegetable toppings — sliced fresh mushrooms, onions, red and green peppers, green olives, black olives, tomato, crushed pineapple, hot banana peppers, sliced jalapeño peppers. All 0.0 mg across all sizes.
• Soft drinks — Coke Classic, Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Sprite, Barq’s Root Beer, Lemonade and Nestea, in four sizes plus pitcher and quart carryout.

The four dressings at 0.0 mg are Ken’s Low Cal Italian, Monarch Fat Free French, Ken’s Country French, Ken’s Golden Italian and Ken’s California French. The six that carry cholesterol are Ranch (5), Roquefort (10), Ken’s Poppy Seed (10), Dressing-Mayonnaise (10), Ken’s 1000 Island (<5) and Ken’s Honey Mustard (<5).

The crusts and the dough

Pizza King’s guide has no separate crust rows — only whole-pizza rows, all of which include cheese and all of which carry cholesterol. So the Original Crust and Pan Pizza cannot be assessed from the published data at all, and the cauliflower crust is ruled out by its own ingredient list. The dough itself is the named unknown, and “Pizza King prides itself in producing fresh dough daily” does not answer the question.

What a vegan order looks like here

Realistically: a cheeseless pizza with vegetable toppings, breadstix, fries, or a side salad with a zero-cholesterol dressing — with the dough, the fryer and the dressings all unconfirmed. Pizza King offers no vegan cheese, so a cheeseless pie is the only version of the first option.

Two things worth asking a store directly, because Pizza King does not publish them: what is in the dough, and whether Dill Butter is dairy butter or a spread. The chain leans hard on franchisee independence — menus and prices do vary by location — so an answer at one store is not an answer at all of them.

Ordering vegan at pizza chains generally

PETA’s youth site peta2 published a guide to exactly this, “how to order vegan at pizza chains”, on 27 September 2025. It is about Papa John’s, Domino’s and Pizza Hut — not Pizza King — and is included here only as general guidance, not as evidence about this chain. In its own words:

• Papa John’s — “the sauce and original hand-tossed dough are vegan, so go ahead and order your veggie pizza as usual—but without cheese”, and the garlic dipping sauce is “totally vegan”.
• Domino’s — “order the thin crust (the others aren’t vegan) and regular sauce”; peta2 lists the garlic, BBQ, hot Buffalo and Italian dipping cups as vegan.
• Pizza Hut — “order Premium Crushed Tomato sauce and either the Thin ‘N Crispy, Hand-Tossed, or Original Pan crust”, with the note that the cinnamon sticks are vegan but the white icing dipping cup is not.

For actual vegan cheese rather than a cheeseless pie, peta2 points to Papa Murphy’s Take ‘n’ Bake, MOD Pizza, Blaze Pizza and Mellow Mushroom.

One correction: this page previously listed Little Caesars as PETA-recommended. It is not named in that peta2 guide, and we have no other source for it, so it has been removed.

Sources

All fetched 31 July 2026: pizzaking.com/nutrition.php; Pizza King Nutritional Guide (12 pages, PDF created 30 April 2017); cauliflower crust spec sheet (dated 01/01/2020); the Pizza Brownie and Chewy Gooey Pizza Cookie spec sheets. Apart from the clearly-labelled peta2 quotations above, no third-party source was used for any claim about Pizza King, and no vegan blog, listicle or aggregator was used as evidence.