Is it halal? Canada
Is Pizza Pizza halal in Canada?
Halal items named, no certification published
Pizza Pizza names three halal toppings on its own Canadian site: Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni and Halal Beef Crumble, and its FAQ says one of its two pepperonis is halal. It names no certifier and no restaurants; Zabihah lists 26 Canadian outlets where diners have found the toppings, on request, and six pork products share the listing.
What the evidence supports
| Question | Supported finding | Scope | Source and date |
|---|---|---|---|
| What has Pizza Pizza said? | It names three halal products. On 1 October 2026 the products and ingredients listing named Halal Grilled Chicken (“Halal Chicken breast, Water, Soy protein product, Modified corn starch, Canola oil, Flavour”), Halal Pepperoni (“Halal Beef, Halal Chicken, Seasoning” and so on) and Halal Beef Crumble (“Halal Beef, Water, Soy Flour, Salt” and so on). The allergy page, the gluten-free page (modified 17 September 2025) and the nutrition index name the same products; the French ingredients page names Poulet Grillé Halal, Pepperoni Halal and Miettes de Boeuf Halal. No page uses the words halal certified or names a certifier. The nutrition index dates its facts to 1 November 2023, and the names match what we read on 4 August 2026. | Canada, national ingredient listing | Pizza Pizza, products and ingredients, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| What does the FAQ say? | Answering “Does your pepperoni contain gluten?”, the English menu FAQ (10 questions, modified 18 November 2024) says: “We have two types of Pepperoni: our Halal and our "New York Pepperoni", none of which contains wheat gluten as an ingredient.” The French FAQ (9 questions) says the same. The FAQ also says cheese enzymes, “except Parmesan Cheese, are derived from non-animal, microbial sources,” that the regular dough contains no animal by-products and that no sugar is refined with bone char. | Canada, national FAQ, English and French | Pizza Pizza, menu FAQ, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| Which toppings are pork? | Six on the same listing: Genoa Salami, Spicy Italian Sausage, New-York Style Pepperoni (“Pork, Beef, Salt, Dextrose, Spice” and so on), Italian Ham, Bacon Crumble and Bacon Strips, each with pork as the first ingredient. Ground Beef, Grilled Chicken, Chicken Sandwich Filet, Popcorn Chicken, Boneless Chicken Bites and the wings carry no halal name. The site says nothing about keeping halal and pork toppings apart; its only cross-contact wording concerns tree nuts. | Canada, national ingredient listing | Pizza Pizza, nutrition index and ingredients, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| Is every restaurant covered? | Pizza Pizza does not say. No page names the restaurants that stock the halal toppings; the menu page says “Products vary by location. Please check your local store for availability.”; the restaurant locator lists restaurants by province and city with no halal tag; and the school lunch programme page (modified 16 September 2026) says “Halal options are available upon request” at an added charge, “Based on the store's available stock. These items cannot be guaranteed.” The Uber Eats listing for the Erin Mills store in Mississauga names pepperoni, bacon, salami, sausage and ham on its rendered menu and no halal item; whether the halal toppings can be chosen inside each pizza is not shown on the page. | Canada, availability | Pizza Pizza, menu page; Uber Eats (Erin Mills), retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| Is any Pizza Pizza restaurant certified? | Neither of the two restaurant registers we checked listed one. On 1 October 2026 the Halal Monitoring Authority's certified-restaurant register (82 entries, page dated 19 September 2026) and ISNA Halal's restaurant listings (34 entries), both read in a rendered browser, named no Pizza Pizza; HMA's supplier list and Halal Check list name no Pizza Pizza supplier. The certificates that directory users report seeing in some stores (below) never name their issuer in any listing we read. | Canada, certifier registers | HMA and ISNA Halal registers, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| Which restaurants do halal directories list? | Zabihah's chain page, “Pizza Pizza - 27 Halal Locations,” carries the line “Select Pizza Pizza outlets offer halal food.” and lists 26 Canadian addresses (one Indianapolis entry is an unrelated business): Richmond BC; three in Winnipeg; Halifax; two in Regina; Laval and Vaudreuil-Dorion in Quebec; and in Ontario Ajax, Kingston, three in Mississauga, Nepean, Oakville, Oshawa, three in Ottawa, Pickering, Richmond Hill, two in Scarborough, Toronto (Weston Road) and Waterloo. Its entries for 31 Tapscott Road and 2650 Lawrence Avenue East in Scarborough, 1937 Weston Road in Toronto and 303 Albert Street in Regina say a halal certificate is visible on the premises, the Laval entry says a halal sign is, and the Mississauga Creditview and Ottawa Saint Joseph entries rest on staff's verbal assurance; every entry is “Partially halal” with halal toppings and wings on request, and none names the certificate's issuer. HalalRun's listing records “Halal Options: only pepperoni, ground beef and chicken toppings,” with in-store signage as its source. These are directory listings, not certifications. | Canada, directory listings (26 locations) | Zabihah chain page; HalalRun, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| What do diners report? | That the halal toppings exist, must be asked for, and are the exception on the menu. Thirteen Zabihah reviews from 2005 to 2012 in Scarborough, Ottawa and Regina say the same things in different words: “Halal topping on request. If you don't ask for it, you'll get the pork pepperoni” (Scarborough, 2010); “Big Halal sign on window but you have to request Halal toppings” (Scarborough, 2010); “They have 3 separate toppings that are halal -- the chicken, beef and pepperoni. This has to be asked for (its a separate button on their cash register)” (Ottawa, 2011). Ottawa staff told one reviewer in 2011 that wings and fries share a fryer; a Regina reviewer in 2010 said wings there were baked. Two TripAdvisor reviews titled “Halal food is now available on Queensway.” (2016) and “Halal toppings” (2022) report the toppings at Toronto stores. No review carries a chain or certifier reply. | Canada, diner reports (2005 to 2022) | Zabihah reviews; TripAdvisor, 2005 to 2022, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
| Who supplies the toppings? | Head office, by the chain's own account, though it never says so of the halal ones. Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp.'s Annual Information Form dated 25 March 2026 describes “central food distribution centers, which provide all food and non-food items used in restaurant operations” and “PPL's commissaries, which manufacture and/or distribute almost all products used by the Franchisees”; it mentions chicken “raised without antibiotics” and plant-based pepperoni and never uses the word halal. The form counts 794 restaurants in the royalty pool, 694 of them Pizza Pizza. So the halal toppings, like every topping, come through the chain's own commissary, and the question of who certifies them sits with Pizza Pizza Limited, not with the franchisee. | Canada, company filing, March 2026 | Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp., Annual Information Form 2025, 2026-03-25, retrieved 2026-10-01 |
Documents we read
What this means before you order
Three toppings, on Pizza Pizza's own word. The chain's Canadian site, read in full in English and French on 1 October 2026, names Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni and Halal Beef Crumble on its products and ingredients listing, its allergy page, its gluten-free page and its nutrition index, with ingredient decks that begin “Halal Chicken breast” and “Halal Beef.” Its menu FAQ, answering a gluten question, says: “We have two types of Pepperoni: our Halal and our "New York Pepperoni", none of which contains wheat gluten as an ingredient.”
We report that as the chain's statement about three named products. It is not a statement about restaurants: no page on pizzapizza.ca uses the words halal certified, names a certifier or a supplier, or says which of its restaurants stock the three toppings, and the same listing carries six pork products. Where the toppings are stocked is recorded only by diners and directories: Zabihah lists 26 Canadian Pizza Pizza outlets under the line that select outlets serve halal food, most with a halal certificate or sign reported on the premises and the issuer never named, and reviewers since 2005 say the halal toppings must be asked for.
The HMA and ISNA Halal restaurant registers we checked on 1 October 2026 named no Pizza Pizza.
What the chain's pages say beyond the three names matters for a halal diet. The listing that names the halal toppings also lists Genoa Salami, Spicy Italian Sausage, New-York Style Pepperoni, Italian Ham, Bacon Crumble and Bacon Strips, each beginning “Pork,” plus a Grilled Chicken and a Ground Beef that carry no halal name, and nothing describes how halal and pork toppings are kept apart in the kitchen.
The menu page says “Products vary by location. Please check your local store for availability.” The school lunch programme page, modified 16 September 2026, says “Halal options are available upon request” at an added charge and “Based on the store's available stock.” The nutrition index dates its facts to 1 November 2023. The chain's royalty company says in its 2025 Annual Information Form that PPL's commissaries “manufacture and/or distribute almost all products used by the Franchisees,” without using the word halal, so the toppings, and the certifier question, sit with head office.
On 1 October 2026 the Halal Monitoring Authority's certified-restaurant register (82 entries) and ISNA Halal's restaurant listings (34 entries) named no Pizza Pizza.
Suppliers and preparation can change. Confirm the current halal information with the specific restaurant before ordering.
What official sources establish
Pizza Pizza's statement is a set of product names, repeated across its Canadian site in both languages. On 1 October 2026 we read pizzapizza.ca in full: the products and ingredients listing names Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni and Halal Beef Crumble, with ingredient decks that begin “Halal Chicken breast” and “Halal Beef”; the allergy page names Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Beef and Halal Pepperoni; the gluten-free items page, modified 17 September 2025, lists Halal Pepperoni and Halal Grilled Chicken; the nutrition index carries the same names; and the French ingredients page names Poulet Grillé Halal, Pepperoni Halal and Miettes de Boeuf Halal.
The menu FAQ puts it in a sentence, shown in the picture above. Answering “Does your pepperoni contain gluten?”, it says: “We have two types of Pepperoni: our Halal and our "New York Pepperoni", none of which contains wheat gluten as an ingredient.” The French FAQ says the same. We take a national chain at its word when it names a product halal on its own site: the company is answerable for the name and would have to remove it if it were untrue. So this page reports the three toppings as Pizza Pizza's statement, with its limits.
The limits are the chain's own. No page on pizzapizza.ca uses the words halal certified, names a certifier, names the supplier of the halal beef or chicken, or describes the slaughter. The school lunch programme page, modified 16 September 2026, is the only place the chain speaks to availability: “Halal options are available upon request” at an added charge, with the footnote “Based on the store's available stock.
These items cannot be guaranteed.” The menu page says “Products vary by location.” The chain's royalty company describes where every topping comes from without naming the halal ones: Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp.'s Annual Information Form of 25 March 2026 says PPL's commissaries “manufacture and/or distribute almost all products used by the Franchisees,” mentions chicken raised without antibiotics and plant-based pepperoni, and never uses the word halal; its 2018 form is the same.
That places the certifier question with head office, which has not answered it in public.
The two restaurant registers we checked did not list a Pizza Pizza restaurant. On 1 October 2026 the Halal Monitoring Authority's certified-restaurant register, 82 entries on a page dated 19 September 2026, and ISNA Halal's restaurant listings, 34 entries, were read in a rendered browser and name none; HMA's supplier list and Halal Check list name no Pizza Pizza supplier either. Directory users report a halal certificate on the wall of some stores, and no listing names who issued it.
Locations and products
Pizza Pizza publishes no list of the restaurants that stock its halal toppings. Its locator lists restaurants by province and city for Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Yukon, with no per-restaurant attributes and no halal tag, so whether Halal Pepperoni is on the menu at your store is a question for that store.
The only store-by-store picture is a directory's. Zabihah's chain page lists 26 Canadian outlets under the line “Select Pizza Pizza outlets offer halal food.”: Richmond BC; three in Winnipeg; Halifax; two in Regina; Laval and Vaudreuil-Dorion; and in Ontario Ajax, Kingston, three in Mississauga (2760 Derry Road West, 6065 Creditview Road, 295 Eglinton Avenue East), Nepean, Oakville, Oshawa, three in Ottawa, Pickering, Richmond Hill, two in Scarborough, Toronto's Weston Road and Waterloo.
Its entries for the two Scarborough stores, Weston Road and Regina's Albert Street say a halal certificate is visible on the premises, Laval's says a halal sign is, and Mississauga Creditview and Ottawa Saint Joseph rest on staff's verbal assurance; every entry is marked “Partially halal” with toppings and wings on request, and none names the certificate's issuer. HalalRun records “only pepperoni, ground beef and chicken toppings” from in-store signage.
A listing is a reader's or a manager's report, not a certification, and a 2011 Regina review already records one store dropping the toppings while two kept them.
The halal-named products are Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni, which is beef and chicken, and Halal Beef Crumble; in French, Poulet Grillé Halal, Pepperoni Halal and Miettes de Boeuf Halal. The same listing carries six pork products: Genoa Salami, Spicy Italian Sausage, New-York Style Pepperoni, which is pork and beef, Italian Ham, Bacon Crumble and Bacon Strips. Ground Beef, Grilled Chicken, the chicken sandwich filet, popcorn chicken, chicken bites and the wings carry no halal name, and a Chorizo Sausage appears on the gluten-free page without an ingredient line.
The public menu page names bacon crumble, bacon strips, salami, spicy Italian sausage and pepperoni and no topping as halal; the halal names appear on the nutrition and ingredient pages, not the menu, and the Uber Eats listing for the Erin Mills store in Mississauga likewise shows pepperoni, bacon, salami, sausage and ham with no halal item on its rendered menu.
Diners describe the same thing from the counter: thirteen Zabihah reviews from 2005 to 2012 in Scarborough, Ottawa and Regina say the halal toppings must be requested (“If you don't ask for it, you'll get the pork pepperoni”; “its a separate button on their cash register”), one Ottawa reviewer was told in 2011 that wings and fries share a fryer, and TripAdvisor reviews of 2016 and 2022 report the toppings at Toronto stores.
If a Pizza Pizza near you advertises halal beyond these three toppings, that is the franchisee's claim, not the chain's, and this page does not track it.
Certification, ingredients and preparation
A halal-named topping is not a certified restaurant. Pizza Pizza says three products are halal; it does not say who certified them, and no certifier has published a certificate for any Pizza Pizza kitchen. In the words of HMA's Imam Omar Subedar to CBC Marketplace in 2024, an entire restaurant is certified only when every ingredient at the location is checked, and “there must be no pork products or alcohol served on the premises”; a Pizza Pizza, with six pork toppings on its list, is not that, and the chain does not claim it is.
“Halal” on an ingredient deck is the chain's descriptor, not a certifier's. The listing says “Halal Beef” and “Halal Chicken breast” and stops there: no supplier, no certifier, no slaughter method. Certifiers and schools of thought differ on stunning and machine slaughter, and the chain's pages do not say which standard its halal beef and chicken meet. We do not rule between them; apply the standard of a certifier you trust.
Preparation is unaddressed. Halal Pepperoni, Halal Grilled Chicken and Halal Beef Crumble sit on the same make line as salami, Italian sausage, New York pepperoni, ham and bacon, and no Pizza Pizza page describes separate storage, utensils, ovens or cutters; the only cross-contact wording on the site is about tree nuts. Whether that matters to you is a question for the restaurant and for the standard you follow.
Cheese and dough raise their own questions, which the FAQ partly answers: it says the cheese enzymes, “except Parmesan Cheese, are derived from non-animal, microbial sources,” that the regular dough has no animal by-products and that no sugar is refined through bone char. The Parmesan's lipase source is not stated, and the Jalapeno Cheddar dipping sauce lists “Rennet and/or Pepsin and/or Lipase and/or Microbial Enzyme” without saying which.
What Pizza Pizza has not said, and what to check before ordering
Not said by Pizza Pizza as of 1 October 2026: which body certifies the Halal Pepperoni, Halal Grilled Chicken and Halal Beef Crumble, and who supplies them; whether every Canadian restaurant stocks the three toppings or only those whose franchisee orders them; how halal toppings are kept apart from pork toppings; what “Halal options are available upon request” covers in the school lunch programme and at what charge; and the source of the Parmesan's lipase.
Before ordering, ask the restaurant whether it stocks Halal Pepperoni, Halal Grilled Chicken or Halal Beef Crumble that day, which supplier they come from and whether it can show a current certificate for them; ask how they are kept apart from the pork toppings; and remember that the chain's New York pepperoni is pork and beef, so “pepperoni” alone does not get you the halal one.
Pizza Pizza halal FAQs
Is Pizza Pizza halal in Canada?
Three toppings are, on Pizza Pizza's own word: Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni and Halal Beef Crumble, named on its Canadian site in English and French, which we read in full on 1 October 2026. The chain names no certifier, publishes no list of the restaurants that stock them, and lists six pork products beside them, so this is a statement about three products, not about any restaurant. The HMA and ISNA Halal restaurant registers we checked on 1 October 2026 named no Pizza Pizza, and the certificates directory users report in some stores name no issuer.
Does Pizza Pizza have halal pepperoni in Canada?
Yes, per the chain. Its menu FAQ, read on 1 October 2026, says it has "two types of Pepperoni: our Halal and our" New York pepperoni, "none of which contains wheat gluten as an ingredient." The ingredient listing describes Halal Pepperoni as halal beef and halal chicken, and New-York Style Pepperoni as pork and beef. The chain does not say which restaurants stock the halal one, so ask for it by name.
Which Pizza Pizza toppings are halal, and which are pork?
Per the chain's ingredient listing, read on 1 October 2026: Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni (beef and chicken) and Halal Beef Crumble are the halal-named products. Genoa Salami, Spicy Italian Sausage, New-York Style Pepperoni, Italian Ham, Bacon Crumble and Bacon Strips each begin with pork. Ground Beef, Grilled Chicken, the chicken sandwich filet, popcorn chicken, chicken bites and the wings carry no halal name.
Who certifies Pizza Pizza's halal toppings?
Pizza Pizza does not say. No page on pizzapizza.ca names a certifier or a supplier, uses the words halal certified, or describes how the halal beef and chicken are slaughtered; "Halal" appears as the chain's own descriptor on the ingredient decks, and its royalty company's filings, which say head-office commissaries supply almost all products, never use the word. On 1 October 2026 the HMA and ISNA Halal registers named no Pizza Pizza, and the certificates that directory users report seeing in some stores are never attributed to an issuer. Ask the restaurant which supplier the toppings come from and whether it can show a current certificate.
Which Pizza Pizza restaurants have the halal toppings?
Pizza Pizza publishes no list; its menu page says "Products vary by location. Please check your local store for availability." and its school lunch page says halal options are "Based on the store's available stock. These items cannot be guaranteed." Zabihah lists 26 Canadian outlets where readers have found them, in Richmond BC, Winnipeg, Halifax, Regina, Laval, Vaudreuil-Dorion and fifteen Ontario cities including Mississauga, Scarborough, Toronto, Ottawa and Pickering, most marked with a certificate or sign on the premises and all on request; those are listings, not certifications, and stock changes.
The national ingredient list also includes pork toppings; it does not establish what each restaurant stocks. Ask your store before ordering.
Are halal toppings prepared separately from bacon, ham and salami?
Pizza Pizza has not said. On 1 October 2026 nothing on its site described separate storage, utensils, ovens or cutters for the halal toppings; the only cross-contact wording, on the allergy page, concerns tree nuts. The halal pepperoni, chicken and beef crumble share the listing with six pork products. Whether shared preparation matters to you is a question for the restaurant and for the standard of a certifier you trust.
When was this page last checked?
On 1 October 2026 we read pizzapizza.ca in full in English and French: the menu FAQ, the products and ingredients listing, the allergy, nutrition and gluten-free pages, the school lunch and catering pages, the menu page and the restaurant locator; Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp.'s 2025 and 2018 Annual Information Forms; Zabihah's chain page and seven store entries with their reviews; HalalRun's listing; two TripAdvisor reviews; the Erin Mills Uber Eats listing; and the HMA and ISNA Halal registers in a rendered browser. Next review is due on 31 October 2026, or sooner if Pizza Pizza publishes anything.
Sources and what they cover
These are the statements behind this page. The scope beside each source distinguishes Canadian information, a single location and material from another country.
Pizza Pizza, products and ingredients listing
Canada“Halal Chicken breast, Water, Soy protein product, Modified corn starch, Canola oil, Flavour”
The chain's national ingredient listing, nine categories, read on 1 October 2026 (page modified 25 November 2024; data self-dated 1 November 2023). Names Halal Grilled Chicken, Halal Pepperoni (“Halal Beef, Halal Chicken”) and Halal Beef Crumble beside Genoa Salami, Spicy Italian Sausage, New-York Style Pepperoni, Italian Ham, Bacon Crumble and Bacon Strips, each beginning with pork. No certifier, supplier or certification wording.
pizzapizza.ca ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Pizza Pizza, menu FAQ
Canada“We have two types of Pepperoni: our Halal and our "New York Pepperoni", none of which contains wheat gluten as an ingredient.”
Ten questions, every answer read on 1 October 2026 (page modified 18 November 2024). The halal sentence answers a gluten question; the FAQ also covers cheese enzymes (microbial except Parmesan), dough (no animal by-products) and sugar (no bone char). No certifier is named and no store is named.
pizzapizza.ca ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Pizza Pizza, FAQ sur le menu (French)
Canada“Nous avons deux types de Pepperoni : notre pepperoni halal et notre « New York Pepperoni »; aucun des deux ne renferme du gluten de blé.”
The French FAQ, nine questions, read on 1 October 2026 (page modified 19 November 2024), carries the same two-pepperoni answer; the French ingredients page names Poulet Grillé Halal, Pepperoni Halal and Miettes de Boeuf Halal beside the same pork products.
pizzapizza.ca ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Pizza Pizza, gluten-free items
CanadaThe newest page naming the halal toppings, modified 17 September 2025 and read on 1 October 2026: under Meat and Chicken it lists Halal Pepperoni and Halal Grilled Chicken with Chorizo Sausage, Spicy Italian Sausage, Bacon Crumble, Genoa Salami, Italian Ham, Ground Beef, Grilled Chicken, New York Style Pepperoni, Bacon Strips and Gluten Free Chicken Bites. The word certified does not appear.
pizzapizza.ca ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Pizza Pizza, school lunch programme
Canada“Halal options are available upon request”
Page modified 16 September 2026, read on 1 October 2026. The line continues with an added charge, and the footnote reads “Based on the store's available stock. These items cannot be guaranteed.” The programme names Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. It is the chain's only wording on halal availability by store.
pizzapizza.ca ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Pizza Pizza, menu page
Canada“Products vary by location. Please check your local store for availability.”
The public menu page, modified 11 September 2026 and read on 1 October 2026, lists bacon crumble, bacon strips, salami, spicy Italian sausage and pepperoni and names no topping as halal. The restaurant locator, read the same day, lists restaurants by province and city with no halal tag.
pizzapizza.ca ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Halal Monitoring Authority (HMA) Canada
CanadaHMA's certified-restaurant register, 82 entries on a page dated 19 September 2026, read in a rendered browser on 1 October 2026, names no Pizza Pizza; HMA's supplier list and Halal Check list name no Pizza Pizza supplier. ISNA Halal's restaurant listings (34 entries) were read the same day with the same result.
hmacanada.org ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Zabihah, chain page “Pizza Pizza - 27 Halal Locations”
Canada, directory listing“Select Pizza Pizza outlets offer halal food.”
Read on 1 October 2026: 26 Canadian addresses by city (the 27th, in Indianapolis, is an unrelated business). The store entries for 31 Tapscott Road and 2650 Lawrence Avenue East (Scarborough), 1937 Weston Road (Toronto) and 303 Albert Street (Regina) say a halal certificate is visible on the premises, Laval's says a sign is, and Mississauga Creditview and Ottawa Saint Joseph rest on verbal assurance; all are “Partially halal”, toppings and wings on request, and no issuer is named. Listings, not certifications.
zabihah.com ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Zabihah, Pizza Pizza, 31 Tapscott Road, Scarborough (reviews)
Canada, diner report“Halal topping on request. If you don't ask for it, you'll get the pork pepperoni.”
Afzal P, 6 May 2010, one of six reviews on this entry from 2005 to 2012 that describe halal pepperoni, beef and chicken available on request; the Lawrence Avenue East entry (two reviews, 2010), the Ottawa Saint Joseph entry (2011: “its a separate button on their cash register”; shared fryer oil) and the Regina Albert Street entry (2010 and 2011: wings baked; one store dropped the toppings) read the same day. Diners' words; no chain or certifier reply.
zabihah.com ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01HalalRun, Pizza Pizza listing
Canada, directory listing“Halal Options: only pepperoni, ground beef and chicken toppings”
Status “Some meat is halal”, confirmation source “Signage in restaurant or on menus”, no certifier, last modified 25 July 2022; read on 1 October 2026. A second directory agreeing with the chain's own three-item list, on the strength of a sign.
halalrun.com ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp., Annual Information Form 2025 (25 March 2026)
Canada“PPL's commissaries, which manufacture and/or distribute almost all products used by the Franchisees”
The royalty company's filing for the year ended 31 December 2025, read on 1 October 2026: 794 restaurants in the royalty pool (694 Pizza Pizza, 100 Pizza 73); central distribution centres provide all food items; chicken raised without antibiotics; plant-based pepperoni and sausage. The word halal does not appear, nor in the 2018 form. Cited for where the toppings come from.
storage.googleapis.com ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01TripAdvisor, Pizza Pizza, Toronto (review of 3 August 2016)
Canada, diner report“Halal food is now available on Queensway.”
The title of a review by a visitor from Abu Dhabi, posted 3 August 2016 and filed under a Toronto Pizza Pizza page; a second review titled “Halal toppings” (14 August 2022) sits on the 3040 Don Mills Rd page. Read on 1 October 2026. Neither restaurant page shows a halal attribute and neither review has an owner reply.
tripadvisor.com ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-01How we checked Pizza Pizza
On 1 October 2026 we read pizzapizza.ca in English and French: the menu FAQ (10 questions in English, 9 in French), the products and ingredients listing (nine categories, eight meats) and its French counterpart, the allergy information page (10 allergen headings), the nutrition index, the gluten-free items page (12 items under Meat and Chicken), the donair meat products table, the Our Food, Our Quality, school lunch programme, corporate catering and contact pages, the public menu page, the restaurant locator directory, robots.txt and the five sitemaps, none of whose URLs contains halal.
The chain's individual store pages and the ordering app's topping picker did not open for our tools, which is a limit of our tools and not a finding; store-level stock was read from directories and reviews instead. We read Pizza Pizza Royalty Corp.'s Annual Information Forms of 25 March 2026 and 1 March 2019; Zabihah's chain page and its Tapscott Road, Lawrence Avenue East, Weston Road, Regina Albert Street, Laval, Mississauga Creditview and Ottawa Saint Joseph entries with their reviews; HalalRun's listing; the two TripAdvisor reviews; the Uber Eats Erin Mills listing; blogTO's halal-pizza list, which does not name the chain; and the chain's X accounts as indexed, where no halal post or reply surfaced.
We read the Halal Monitoring Authority's certified-restaurant register (82 entries) and ISNA Halal's restaurant listings (34 entries) in a rendered browser, and HMA's supplier and Halal Check lists; Pizza Pizza appears on none. CBC Marketplace's 2024 investigation, read in its Yahoo News Canada republication, did not include Pizza Pizza. Pizza 73, a sister brand, was not researched.
What we could not check: Pizza Pizza dates its ingredient information to 1 November 2023 and says items may change without notice; the halal names were still on its pages on 1 October 2026. The chain says nowhere which restaurants stock the halal toppings; the 26 locations on this page are a directory's list, most of its reviews are from 2005 to 2012, and stock changes, as a 2011 Regina review shows. We publish no restaurant count of our own. We have not called any restaurant and have seen no certificate; the certificates reported on store walls were seen by directory users, who did not record the issuer.
Research and review: Researched by Halal Food Pass editorial on 4 August and 1 October 2026. Reviewed by Shaz Khan, publisher.
Change log:
- : First published as halal items named, no certification published: the menu FAQ, products and ingredients listing, allergy, nutrition, school lunch and corporate catering pages read; the three halal products and the two-pepperoni FAQ answer recorded; HMA register checked; the ISNA Canada register would not open.
- : Site re-read in full in English and French: the three halal toppings still named on four pages, the FAQ wording unchanged, the gluten-free items page (September 2025), the menu page's products-vary-by-location line and the school lunch page (September 2026, stock footnote) added, six pork products and the cheese, dough and sugar answers recorded; store pages and the ordering app could not be read; HMA and ISNA Halal registers read in a rendered browser, CHFCA could not be read. Label unchanged; verdict class set to named for this label; claim table and sections added. Review cadence set to 30 days.
- : Rewritten so the page says where the halal toppings have been found and on what basis: Zabihah's 26 Canadian listings (certificate or sign reported, issuer unnamed, all on request), HalalRun's three-topping note from signage, thirteen diner reviews from 2005 to 2012 and two from TripAdvisor, the Erin Mills delivery menu, and the royalty company's commissary wording placing supply with head office; the FAQ sentence now shown as the page's picture. Earlier access notes reduced to one sentence in the method note. Label and verdict unchanged.
- : Editorial scope correction: limited the register finding to the HMA and ISNA Halal restaurant registers checked on 1 October, and clarified that a national ingredient list does not establish pork-topping stock at every restaurant. The halal label and source-check dates are unchanged.
How to read our halal labels
We report what a chain, a named certifier or a specific restaurant says, with the scope of that statement. Halal Food Pass does not certify halal.
A statement about chicken does not automatically cover the whole menu. A supplier certificate does not establish restaurant certification. A lack of published certification does not tell us how animals were slaughtered.
When a chain states publicly that its food is halal, we report that statement as the chain's own word, with its date, its scope and the certifier it names, and we treat it as standing until the chain withdraws it or evidence contradicts it. A claim that rests on unnamed phone calls or an anonymous post is reported as a claim, not as a finding.
Read our halal information policy or learn how to check a restaurant’s halal information.