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Thursday, November 12, 2026Nov 12

Marco’s Pizza: Open wide and say ‘ah!thentic’

A Deluxe Uno specialty pizza from Marco's Pizza in Hixson is served with an order of CheezyBread and a Salted Caramel Brownie.
A Deluxe Uno specialty pizza from Marco's Pizza in Hixson is served with an order of CheezyBread and a Salted Caramel Brownie. A Deluxe Uno specialty pizza from Marco's Pizza in Hixson is served with an order of CheezyBread and a Salted Caramel Brownie.

If you go

› Where: Marco’s Pizza, 5723 Hixson Pike› Phone: 423-362-8300› Website: marcos.com› Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday› Price range: Pizzas, $6.95 small to $12.95 extra large; sub sandwiches, $5.45 6-inch, $8.40 12-inch› Alcohol: Beer› Note: Second location at 785 Shugart Road, Dalton, Ga.

Tradition suggests that a feast of greens, pork and black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day will assure good luck and good fortune in the coming year.

I had all three in my kitchen, but I was out and about and craving pizza. Could dough, the pizza kind, produce dough, the spending kind?

The year’s still young, so the jury’s still out. But my first order from Marco’s Pizza in Hixson left me resolved to visit more often in 2016.

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