• by Teresa Buyikian , March 19, 2025

Peter Piper Pizza, which has embraced in-restaurant STEM education programs for years, has now partnered with a regional STEM nonprofit to provide even more science, technology, engineering and math learning opportunities for its youngest guests.

The Glendale, Arizona-based pizza chain teamed up with ARSEF, the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation, to further support its STEM education for Arizona students through in-restaurant programs, STEM camp scholarships and more. Peter Piper will provide scholarships for SARSEF Summer STEM camps this June, as well as meals for campers and special meal deals for their families.

"We are committed to making STEM education more accessible and engaging for all children in our communities," said Peter Piper Pizza CMO Genaro Perez in the press release.

For the past five years Peter Piper’s Pizza has offered in-restaurant STEM experiences and educations field trip activities such as “Pizza Engineering,” “My Plate Nutrition” and a game room scavenger hunt, among others. In April of 2024, the brand launched the Slice of Knowledge Foundation, which raises funds to “further support educational initiatives in underserved communities.”

Peter Piper launched the SARSEF partnership earlier this month by offering $3.14 personal pizzas on Pi Day, March 14, the unofficial mathematics holiday.

Launched in 1973, Peter Piper Pizza has 120 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada and reports donating more than $600,000 annually to schools, hospitals and nonprofits.

Peter Piper Pizza brand is a wholly owned subsidiary of CEC Entertainment, LLC, the parent company of the Chuck E. Cheese kids entertainment chain. Chuck E Cheese also recently expanded its own educational programming, launching Chuck E.’s STEAM-tastic Adventure, a hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) in-restaurant experience for kids.