This Seattle chain has 24 restaurants in Washington. ‘Stoked,’ the 25th opens — in Eagle?

Getting its first taste of the Boise area, a well-known Seattle chain is grabbing a slice of Idaho’s economic pie.

Zeeks Pizza will celebrate the grand opening of a new full-service location Wednesday at 2826 S. Eagle Road.

The question is — why?

Founded in 1993, Zeeks has grown to two dozen locations serving “homegrown Northwest pizza and beer.”

All 24 are in Washington state.

So why Eagle for No. 25? What makes the Boise suburb so special?

Aside from being a potentially lucrative growth market in the Northwest— nothing. Zeeks is expanding into nearby states. The Eagle location had a franchisee ready to roll, said Dan Black, head of marketing.

“We are totally stoked,” he added. “We had toured Boise, and we knew about Eagle. We looked at a bunch of locations and are super happy with the place we landed on. We are really, really excited to be there.”

Zeeks will welcome customers from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on grand opening day. It will sell lunch slices from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Happy hour runs from 3 to 5:30 p.m. “Whole pies, wings, salads, breadsticks, beer, wine and cider all day long,” Zeeks proclaimed on social media.

Beer, dough

Zeeks isn’t just about pizza. It has “a reputation as being the best craft beer joint in pizza,” according to its franchisee recruitment website.

The restaurants don’t brew beer, but they sell plenty — including exclusives made in collaboration with breweries.

“We call our place ‘pizza pubs’ because they feel as much like pubs as anything,” Black explained. “We have relationships with basically every brewer in the Northwest.”