Stephen V.
Yelp
Fail.
Parking was easy, except the visible door isn't available. Walk around to the next door, same deal. Walk further, to the opposite of the building, and alas, a door that is readily available.
One young guy greets us and asks if we are ready to order. Big friendly smile. "First visit, give me a second."
The only guests are leaving, so I know it's not the busy hour, 2:30 the day after Christmas. I guess the more traditional eateries are getting the crowds.
The helpful guy now begins regurgitating some popular menu items, one of which is appealing because it's spicy, when I ask about the protein he replies by resuming his listing of another vegan pizza. Again I inquire what aside from the cheese is the protein, again he recites the ingredients from an entirely different pizza.
I ask him what he's saying because I keep hearing something about corn and jalapeños, neither of which are on the pizza I'm asking about.
So I tried a different approach.
Can I simply order the potato tandoori pizza as is, but add the chicken?
He now recites the build your own theme and proceeds to add the items from the corn pizza and ultimately tops it with the chicken.
The total hits 13.98 or essentially $14.
So I ask if I can just have the roasted potato as it appears on the menu and just add chicken. He says because the cooks know the menu they can't add to the signature pizzas. So I ask how they manage the build your own with countless variations, why can't they just add one item to a known item.
He says they're "basically the same price, sir"
I ask how, if the chicken, as an extra topping is $2, how is $12 (the pizza I wanted was $10) "about the same as $14?"
His reply: "$13.95 isn't $14"
"It also NOT $12". So I asked my son to just give his order while I figure out another pizza that I might prefer.
The boy now says he can't do the next order till the current order is complete.
"It's complete, I don't want it, delete it and just use what common sense your manager erroneously thought was present and take the next order please, I'll choose something else in a minute.
Pepperoni and pulled pork. Easy peezy.
I ordered the Pulled Pork which has an interesting spinach sauce and mozzarella cheese. Sounds pretty good, and instead of complicating it, I suspect I'll locate crushed pepper flakes nearby on my own.
Wrap up the order and again I see the new thing these days that's truly irritating. Pre tip actions at fast food places. In increments, like actual restaurants. Tipping a waitress or waiter, that's absolutely acceptable. Tipping a fast food drone 10-15, 20%? No way. I might be inclined to drop change in the beggars cup that used to be the thing some places began doing no so long ago. But my opinion is if you want to get tips, become a food server that has a tangible skill, that's what tipping is about. When you accept the wages of a McD's type place, you are paid way more than waiters and waitresses get, and aside from operating a playskool cash register, the same exact thing as toy registers complete with pictures instead of words, no need to even know the most basic 3rd grade level of arithmetic, then you are already overpaid and demonstrating why other countries are climbing out of the Stone Age while Americans are racing towards it, as they seem to be proudly proclaiming as evidenced by the ongoing support of the stupidest president who has ever existed.
The food isn't bad. But it's possibly the actual reason curry wasn't already made a popular pizza topping. The crust was good, not good enough to say I'd return, but certainly better than any of the major pizza chains we all know the names of.
