I was on the road for work and I called in an order to a pizzeria I’ve never been to. It had great reviews so my plan was to pick up two pies and bring them home for dinner.
It looked like a thin cracker crust, I ordered a margarita made with vodka sauce, and a sausage with cherry peppers.
When I got there, the price was $45. I thought that seemed like a lot of money, but figured they were going to be a decent size.
When the girl came out with the two boxes, I thought it was a joke. I didn’t say anything, got in the car, opened the box and was so disappointed. The pie was about 8 inches in diameter, it came with eight of the slices you see in the photo.
Being in New York, and having so many good pizzerias to choose from, I was a little appalled that they can charge this kind of money for it. It wasn’t even a Neapolitan style with some expensive toppings that I can argue the quality was worth the price.
For some context, I’m in the wholesale food business and have a pretty good understanding of what restaurants pay for products and labor costs. I would say one of my biggest personal expenditures is restaurants. I love food and have no problem paying for great quality but $45 for two pizzas that I could eat by myself was wild. Looking back at some old yelp photos they have raised the pricing on pizza 35% in 18 months.
by Delamainco
43 Comments
I would’ve got my money back immediately
Yeah that’s bad. I’d say name them… maybe somebody has some background?
Is that the tasting slice to make sure it’s to your liking before they proceed with the $45 pie?
Youre paying primo ny pizza shop prices cause their shit dont stink. Id be mad too
I’m getting the “we’re desperately running out of money and time to pay the loans we took out for everything and the rent just went up and we’re not getting many orders, time to jack the price up” business vibes from a place that will be gone in a month.
$45 for two small pizzas? Yeah, that’s outrageous.
I would really love to know the name of the place to cross reference other photos people have posted online of them on like yelp or something
Did I miss the part where you warn people not to waste their money at “said” pizzeria? Did you post the name?
Men keep returning because she’s very persuasive in insisting that’s a nine incher.
Bro name and shame
That’s the tiniest slice of pizza I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s almost comical. The more I look at it the funnier it gets. Like that looks like a slice I’d give to a toddler.
Name and shame please or else this is just pointless
A pizza slice for ants??
Obligatory “is this a pizza shop for ants?”
Of all the things that have never happened, this has never happened the hardest.
At least try to be somewhat believable next time OP. Though you’re probably an AI bot so this is gonna fall on deaf ears.
Wow your hand is HUGE!
Unless you have hands like Andre the Giant, this my good Sir, is theft on customers.
Are you a Paul Bunyan sized human?
Jeff Dabe?
https://preview.redd.it/4rzc3eamd4qe1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87424c9c95771327592340aa4ab96789e0149494
Nathan Fielder vibes
And you didn’t take it back?!
Is this real? Nobody charges $45 for a personal 8-inch pizza. Plus, unless you’re Zach Eday, there’s no way that is slice as small as you claim.
Ok Andre the Giant
Raising prices by a third in 18 months probably means this business is failing and they are trying to survive by gouging customers.
No this time it really is the youth who are wrong
I’m also from NY and travel for work. I have a rule now after being burned too many times: do not buy pizza outside of NY.
There may be some exceptions, CT, NJ come to mind.
I’ll also eat free pizza if it’s just provided on a job site (even Pizza Ranch, but i won’t be happy about it).
Even when I’ve had locals be like “oh, no trust me this place is good” it’s never been good. I’m convinced that most of the country has just never had good pizza.
Totinos pizza is bigger than that.
So Lunchables has a brick and mortar shop now?
Please tell me this is a case of them cutting the pizza horribly so 70% of the slices are comically large and the other few slices are tiny
Were you in Manhattan?
A margarita with vodka sauce? Weird. Usually they’re made with tequila.
I’d rather have $45 of those lunchables pizzas than what they gave you
Maybe they made a mistake? Possible? Wish I could make you a pie to make it up!
All I can think is that pizza is normal size and OP is an 8 foot giant
Your hands are YUGE!
Either you’re Andre the Giant or they are ripping people off wholesale
That is ridiculous. Post that photo to Google maps
This can’t be real.
r/thingsforants
Where is that little baby slice from? As a NYC resident and pizza lover this is fucking embarrassing. Please call this place out. There are so many good places for a slice or pie here.
r/PizzaCrimes
Fake. OP name them if this isn’t fake. Also who would pay $45 for two easy bake oven pizzas. Let alone charge that for those… this reeks of bullshit. Also wtf is in the background of the photo, did OP take the entire pizza out of the box? Seems homemade to me. Correct me if I’m wrong u/delamainco