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We have an addition to the roster of 2024 Capitol Hill food and drink subtractions to make.

The Broadway closure of Ian’s Pizza is permanent.

A person familiar with details of the shuttering tells CHS the closure comes at the end of the shop’s 10-year lease as the small chain has chosen to focus on its Fremont location.

CHS reported here in 2015 as Ian’s moved onto the Hill after building its pie business slowly with origins in Wisconsin and Colorado. The Mac n’ Cheese pizza was a fun introduction for a pizza joint some argued served the Hill’s best slices. The exit leaves a hole in the tenant mix in the Broadway Building neighboring Blick Art, FOB Poke Bar, and its new sibling Old Street Malatang.

Some will add Ian’s to the flurry of closures to start 2025 as the city’s tip credit for its smallest businesses expired. Its arrival ten years ago in Seattle also came amid minimum wage tensions. Ian’s replaced a location of the Zpizza chain that shuttered after its ownership blamed the new wage laws. “It feels more like the right thing to do to respect service workers and what they do,” Ian’s owner told CHS about the new minimum wage at the time.

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