How Plainfield's Pizza King became a new hub for Indiana political hopefuls
The de facto hub for Indiana political hopefuls isn't the Convention Center or the Statehouse: It's a Hendricks County pizza staple. Indianapolis-area favorite Pizza King's Plainfield location is fielding both praise and protest for hosting a slew of political figures for a meal ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. The restaurant made headlines after Democratic secretary of state candidate Beau Bayh stopped for lunch , which led to a string of other candidates and politicians from across the aisle making the trip in the final campaigning opportunities before voters hit the polls. Seth Grant, who opened the Plainfield Pizza King with his wife in 2022 and now helps run its marketing and social media as a volunteer, said the attention has been "overwhelmingly positive." "We never intended that it would be a political circus, but it also sparked me to think, 'Well, maybe we could use it as a platform,'" Grant told IndyStar. "It gave a lot of our customers the opportunity to ask sometimes-pointed questions of these folks that stopped in. Overall, it was a good thing." The political pie in play is an extra large with an array of toppings, so to unpack things slice-by-slice: Bayh made
