Build your pizzeria website in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls is growing fast, and its newest residents pick their pizza on a phone. A website of your own makes sure an independent shows up as clearly as the chains do, takes orders directly, and lets you set your own rules on the winter nights when delivery gets hard.
A Plains city with a real pizza scene
Sioux Falls has more than doubled in population since 1980, and its pizza has grown with it. Pizza Ranch, the buffet chain from the Plains, is where many locals had their childhood birthday parties. But the independents are what people argue about. Sunny’s Pizzeria on South Walts Avenue won the Argus Leader’s blind taste test with its thin crust, and has an arcade for the kids. Pizza di Paolo, from the Napolitano family behind Breadico, has been named South Dakota’s best pizza by Food & Wine. Charlie’s Pizza, a Yankton original, has opened a Sioux Falls location too.
Downtown, along Phillips Avenue near Falls Park, and in the older neighborhoods of Cathedral, All Saints and McKennan Park, local restaurants hold their own. Out in the new subdivisions to the south and east, the chains hold the intersections.
Newcomers decide on Google
Families moving to Sioux Falls for a job at Sanford Health, Avera, the banks or the Smithfield plant don’t know Sunny’s from a chain. They search “pizza near me.” On an app, the chains pay for the top spots. On Google, a real site with your address, your hours, your menu with sizes in inches and your story is what makes an independent look like the obvious choice.
Once they have tried you, your site keeps them. They can order directly, without a service fee, and you keep the whole ticket. You can collect their e-mail, tell them about the new pie, and remind them before the Vikings game.
Shift work, banks and campuses
Sanford Health is the city’s largest employer, Avera is not far behind, and the Smithfield plant, open since 1909, runs shifts of its own. Since Citibank moved its credit card center here in 1981, the banks have filled offices with thousands of workers. Night shifts, early lunches and team orders are easy to take ahead on your own page, with a set pickup time.
Augustana University and the University of Sioux Falls add students who order late during the school year. A late-night menu and a direct order link are worth more to them than another app coupon.
Keep the apps if they help you reach new people. Make your website the place where Sioux Falls orders from you directly, all year round.