The Pop Up Pizza Co

Hire Guide · 4 min read

Pizza oven hire: DIY or with a chef?

The short answer: you can hire a wood-fired pizza oven from us either way. The DIY route is £250 plus VAT, drop-off only, with our bases ready to top, and we recommend it if you need fewer than about 20 pizzas. The full-service route brings the van and the team, starts from £12 per head plus VAT, and scales to 500 guests. Here's how to pick between them.

Option one: hire the oven, keep the fun

Our DIY Pizza Experience is oven hire done properly. We drop off one of our stone ovens, a table and a pizza paddle, plus our bases ready to top, and give you a quick demo so nobody has to fight with dough on the day. You buy the toppings, your guests build their own pizzas and fire them themselves.

It's £250 plus VAT and works best if you need fewer than about 20 pizzas: birthdays, family get-togethers and team days where the making is half the point. The pizza-making becomes the entertainment, which is something a caterer handing plates over a counter can't quite match.

Option two: the van, the team, zero effort

Full-service catering means we do everything: travel, set-up around an hour before serving, an experienced team cooking and serving throughout, plates, napkins, sauces and the clean-up. Every pizza is made fresh to order, and the service scales up to 500 guests, with a minimum booking of £400 plus VAT.

Pricing starts from £12 per head plus VAT. The full breakdown lives in our guide to pizza van hire costs and on the pricing page.

Pizza cooking with roaring flames in our professional wood-fired oven

Which one suits your event?

Choose DIY oven hire ifyou need fewer than about 20 pizzas, you want an activity as much as a meal, and someone in your party enjoys playing host. It's the budget-friendly route and the most hands-on.

Choose the full service ifyou'd rather be a guest at your own event, your numbers are bigger than that, or the occasion carries any pressure: weddings, corporate events, milestone birthdays. When the guest list climbs, a practised team keeping the queue moving is worth every penny.

And if you're comparing us against buying a garden pizza oven outright: those are brilliant for pottering about on a Sunday, but for a one-off event, hire means no learning curve on the day, no storage afterwards and bases that actually work. See everything we cater for the full picture.

Oven hire questions, answered

Can I hire a pizza oven on its own?

Our oven hire comes as the DIY Pizza Experience: £250 plus VAT, drop-off only. We bring one of our stone ovens, a table and a pizza paddle, plus our bases ready to top, and give you a quick demo. You buy the toppings and your guests make and cook their own pizzas. We recommend it if you need fewer than about 20 pizzas.

What is the DIY pizza experience?

Our DIY Pizza Experience is £250 plus VAT and drop-off only: we bring one of our stone ovens, a table, a pizza paddle and our bases ready to top, and give you a quick demo. You buy the toppings and your guests make their own. We recommend it if you need fewer than about 20 pizzas.

Do you hire electric pizza ovens?

No electric ovens. We cook with a wood-fired oven and use gas alongside it, and we're an outdoor set-up only. If you're set on an electric oven for an indoor space, we're honestly not the right fit, but for gardens and outdoor events the wood-fired experience is the whole point.

Booking

Oven or full service?

Tell us your date, venue and guest count and we'll recommend the right option, with a quote usually within a few hours.

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