Wicked Cheesy Celebrates Five Years of Cheesy Goodness

in Tewksbury on Sept. 14, 2006 and has never looked back.

The location, owned and operated by Brian Schofield, celebrated five years of pizza making and contributing to community involvement with a series of additions and changes at the location. Chief among them is a new 600 sq. foot addition, occupying the former hair salon Great Lengths.

The new space offers a dedicated dining and party room. The addition has a flat screen TV, a digital jukebox, and a Nintendo Wii gaming system to satisfy the party aspects of the offering.

“We’ve been trying to do the expansion for about a year now,” said Schofield. "And finally, you know, we got to open it up.”

Schofield said that the old set-up “needed to be addressed,” because of space, noise, and other constraints.

For your dining pleasure, Wicked Cheesy also added draught beer to its beverage selections, including Sam Adams seasonal, Blue Moon, and several other varieties available in pitchers.

“We also provide Free Wi-Fi for all our customers while they are eating, drinking and having a good time,” Schofield said.

Wicked Cheesy wasn’t always like this. In 2006, When the shop first opened, its staff was Schofield, his wife, and his brother and sister-in-law.  For the first few months, the pizza joint couldn’t keep up with the demand. Schofield recounted having to turn people away because he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to bake all the pizzas before closing time. After the acquisition of a new oven the next spring, things went much smoother.

In 2007, Schofield travelled to Vegas for the International Pizza Expo, four days of toppings, tossing, and tastings.

“We put in a submission to enter one of our pizzas in the creativity portion of the contest,” said Schofield. “We entered, and we came in third.” The pizza, affectionately dubbed “Jose Fig”, consists of avocado, red onion, bacon, sour cream, and fresh lime.

“It’s a real funky pizza,” said Schofield.

Just because Wicked Cheesy is passionate about pie doesn’t mean it is one-dimensional. Pizza isn’t Wicked Cheesy’s only export. The company does its best to involve itself in youth and non-profit groups in Tewksbury.

“My wife and my mission statement ourselves is we wanted to open up a pizza place that was very community involved, so we wanted to be involved with the local charities, the local high schools, the local youth groups, just because we believe in that,” said Schofield. “We wanted to establish that right from the beginning, that, hey, you know we do a lot of donations, we do a lot of discounts, and this is our way of giving back.”

Schofield has helped local groups TMHS Hockey, and the Boy and Girl Scouts. They have also helped out charities like the Jimmy Fund. Often times, Wicked Cheesy is able to donate pizzas to events. Other times, Wicked Cheesy has raised $2,000 to upgrade facilities for the Tewksbury Youth Soccer programs. It is these things, said Schofield, that keep people coming back to Wicked Cheesy.

“We do very little advertising, it’s all word-of-mouth,” he said.

Wicked Cheesy also sponsors a 9-10-year-old girls softball league team. The Wicked Cheesy team played very well over the summer, but lost out in the championship round. The girls got together at Wicked Cheesy on Monday for an end-of-the-season-type pizza party and for time spent socializing and playing in the new dining and game room.

For Schofield, this is the way that his business can give back.

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