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Pizza Rev-- "chipotway" style pizza? (1 Viewer)

This resembles Pizza Station in my area. Very much a Subway or Chipotle feel as you tell them the dough type, pick a sauce and cheese, toppings, etc. Very thin pizza, decent but not great. Ate there a couple times when it opened but nothing special and havent been back in months.

 
Don't we have that already? I'd like sausage and pepperoni on half, onions and extra cheese on the other half...

 
Seems to be the rage. MOD Pizza is huge here. And there's a carbon copy of that called Pieology that is now opening up here. As a family, we've done MOD Pizza a few times, haven't tried Pieology, though the concept is exactly the same, as is your new pizza shop I'm sure.

Pros:
- Personal sized pizzas

- Unlimited toppings

- One affordable price

- Ready in a hurry

- Terrific option for a family with different ideas on what toppings make a good pizza.

- Online ordering

- Plenty of options for toppings, including things like banana peppers, fresh basil, bacon.

Cons:

- Meh on taste. Tend to agree with Richard Jeni that pizza is a lot like sex: Even when it's bad it's still pretty good.

- No beer, no ESPN if you want to dine in, which is a requirement for me to dine in, so not a big deal. I just take it home.

- Online ordering has been spotty. Not always working right, but that's fixable.

If the wife and I are in need of a quick, easy, affordable dinner that relatively pleases everybody, it's a great option. If we want great tasting pizza and a good atmosphere to escape the house, this ain't it (though the one opening by you could be much better; ie beer, ESPN, not a million teenagers milling around drinking soda and barking loudly).

 
Seems to be the rage. MOD Pizza is huge here. And there's a carbon copy of that called Pieology that is now opening up here. As a family, we've done MOD Pizza a few times, haven't tried Pieology, though the concept is exactly the same, as is your new pizza shop I'm sure.

Cons:

- No beer, no ESPN if you want to dine in, which is a requirement for me to dine in, so not a big deal. I just take it home.
all the ones I've been to (including MOD in Seattle) have beer. usually a nice selection of craft beer too.

ESPN is a requirement of eating out?

 
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Blaze Pizza is good. $7.65 for about a 10" pie (very thin crust). Your choice of sauce (white, red, spicy red), cheese (about 5-8 types), meats, veggies, etc. Cooks in 180 seconds in their oven. Quick pizza made with the toppings I want. Only thing I don't like is the crust is a little too thin and gets soggy - at least mine does when I get them to put pepperoni under and on top of the cheese, plus I add goat cheese and feta, along with a bunch of other toppings.

 
Seems to be the rage. MOD Pizza is huge here. And there's a carbon copy of that called Pieology that is now opening up here. As a family, we've done MOD Pizza a few times, haven't tried Pieology, though the concept is exactly the same, as is your new pizza shop I'm sure.

Cons:

- No beer, no ESPN if you want to dine in, which is a requirement for me to dine in, so not a big deal. I just take it home.
all the ones I've been to (including MOD in Seattle) have beer. usually a nice selection of craft beer too.

ESPN is a requirement of eating out?
It is if there's a game I'd like to watch. And by ESPN, I just mean televised sports in general. I don't HAVE to watch something when I'm out, but if there is a game on and it's not being televised in a restaurant, it's out for me. :shrug:

 
for me, these places are good for lunch.

how many sporting events are on at lunch time?

also, if going for dinner/late night, can eat a pizza in maybe 15 or 20 minutes tops here. just leave and hit the bar nextdoor afterwards, no?

 
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Have a place called BYOP (Build your own pizza) here.

Lots of great jokes about what kind of restaurant makes you bring your own pizza have been told. Man that was funny.

 
for me, these places are good for lunch.

how many sporting events are on at lunch time?

also, if going for dinner/late night, can eat a pizza in maybe 15 or 20 minutes tops here. just leave and hit the bar nextdoor afterwards, no?
Our lives a little bit different, GB. I have like 17 kids, so dining out as a family IS the big event for us. There's no bar afterwards for me, generally. Plus, primetime games start at 5-6pm, which is the heart of the dining hour, so on the rare occasion we do decide to dine out and if there's a primetime game on TV, then yes, I want it to be on the TV at the restaurant we choose. Dad's paying, dad's deciding.

I eat every single lunch at my desk. I don't take a lunch hour. On weekends, if we do dine out for lunch, there's quite a few games on TV worth watching, especially in the fall. Summer, I don't care. But football season, yeah, I want TVs showing sports if I'm spending dining dollars.

 
BTW, am I the only sad, racist person who saw the thread title and thought it was some kind of black mis-pronunciation of Chipotle?

 
for me, these places are good for lunch.

how many sporting events are on at lunch time?

also, if going for dinner/late night, can eat a pizza in maybe 15 or 20 minutes tops here. just leave and hit the bar nextdoor afterwards, no?
Our lives a little bit different, GB. I have like 17 kids, so dining out as a family IS the big event for us. There's no bar afterwards for me, generally. Plus, primetime games start at 5-6pm, which is the heart of the dining hour, so on the rare occasion we do decide to dine out and if there's a primetime game on TV, then yes, I want it to be on the TV at the restaurant we choose. Dad's paying, dad's deciding.

I eat every single lunch at my desk. I don't take a lunch hour. On weekends, if we do dine out for lunch, there's quite a few games on TV worth watching, especially in the fall. Summer, I don't care. But football season, yeah, I want TVs showing sports if I'm spending dining dollars.
I used to think it was a bit pretentious, but now I see you actually deserve your own thread. My condolences.

 
HA! The center picture on the bottom of this page is my sons' best friend, who lives next door to us. Didn't know he was famous!
The pictures appear to move with each upload because the first time I opened the page I thought your son was friends with a building.
Huh. Do you see a black child sitting next to two kids who look like Iowa farm kids?
In Portland? No way that picture is real.

 
HA! The center picture on the bottom of this page is my sons' best friend, who lives next door to us. Didn't know he was famous!
The pictures appear to move with each upload because the first time I opened the page I thought your son was friends with a building.
Huh. Do you see a black child sitting next to two kids who look like Iowa farm kids?
In Portland? No way that picture is real.
:lmao:

He was adopted from Baton Rouge.

 
Our lives a little bit different, GB. I have like 17 kids, so dining out as a family IS the big event for us. There's no bar afterwards for me, generally. Plus, primetime games start at 5-6pm, which is the heart of the dining hour, so on the rare occasion we do decide to dine out and if there's a primetime game on TV, then yes, I want it to be on the TV at the restaurant we choose. Dad's paying, dad's deciding.

I eat every single lunch at my desk. I don't take a lunch hour. On weekends, if we do dine out for lunch, there's quite a few games on TV worth watching, especially in the fall. Summer, I don't care. But football season, yeah, I want TVs showing sports if I'm spending dining dollars.
given that restaurant tvs often show sports I don't care about (NBA, MLB, NASCAR, etc.), it just feels weird to me to base everything on that. the hassle of asking places to change the channel and put on what you want to watch also something I don't ever look forward to.

If there's a game I care about, I'm probably not going out to eat at all.

But, these are fast food pizza places. If I'm eating at one, it's usually by myself and not for very long. I don't need an hour to get lunch at one.

 
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Our lives a little bit different, GB. I have like 17 kids, so dining out as a family IS the big event for us. There's no bar afterwards for me, generally. Plus, primetime games start at 5-6pm, which is the heart of the dining hour, so on the rare occasion we do decide to dine out and if there's a primetime game on TV, then yes, I want it to be on the TV at the restaurant we choose. Dad's paying, dad's deciding.

I eat every single lunch at my desk. I don't take a lunch hour. On weekends, if we do dine out for lunch, there's quite a few games on TV worth watching, especially in the fall. Summer, I don't care. But football season, yeah, I want TVs showing sports if I'm spending dining dollars.
given that restaurant tvs often show sports I don't care about (NBA, MLB, NASCAR, etc.), it just feels weird to me to base everything on that. the hassle of asking places to change the channel and put on what you want to watch also something I don't every look forward to.

If there's a game I care about, I'm probably not going out to eat at all.

But, these are fast food pizza places. If I'm eating at one, it's usually by myself.
So if there's a game on you want to watch, you won't go to, say, a Buffalo Wildwings to watch it? Get a little food, a few beers, slap some high fives?

Eating alone inside a fast food restaurant sounds awful. Why not just take it home?

 
We have a place called &Pizza here that seems like the same thing. It's huge -- they seem to be opening new locations all the time and the line at the one near my office is always out the door. I've had it once and wasn't really impressed. Plus not really the healthiest lunch option.

 
I love PizzaRev. Blaze Pizza is pretty much the same concept and also good. 800 Degrees is the sucky-undercooked-soggy-bland-long lines version that you should skip.

 
So if there's a game on you want to watch, you won't go to, say, a Buffalo Wildwings to watch it? Get a little food, a few beers, slap some high fives?

Eating alone inside a fast food restaurant sounds awful. Why not just take it home?
I eat alone all the time. Eating at your desk is better somehow? I don't see why. But if I want, I can order the food "TO GO" and walk the block or two back to my office. Not going to take me a full hour to do that either way.

I haven't been inside a Buffalo Wild Wings more than once in the past decade. I think there's only one in Chicago and it's not very good as I recall.

If I'm going to watch a game, I'm going to a bar. Bonus if they serve decent food.

I wouldn't worry about watching a game at a Five Guys or Blaze Pizza or Chick Fil A since I'll be in and out of there in less than 20 minutes.

 
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They just opened a couple of these in my town. Apparently you "craft your own pizza" the same way you do when you go to Chipotle and Subway.

Haven't been there yet but people I know that have say it is so-so. Of course they could be just working a few things out.

Anyone else try this place?
we've had one nearby for a couple years, and we enjoy it. like A-Rud said, it's more of a lunch or quick bite kind of place, not a hang with your homies drinking pitchers and watching the game kind of place.

they have a ton of toppings, and food quality is decent. and it let's you think outside the box with what you want on it...you can create just about anything you can imagine. I like to ditch the red sauce altogether and go with a pesto base. then throw some chicken, spicy sausage, sundried tomatoes, ricotta, spinach and basil on there. good times.

 
So this is like the Papa Murphy's of cooked pizza?
Papa Murphys isn't very good, makes you do most of the cooking, and serves large pies to share. Pretty different.
First you get all hostile over dogs and cats and now you are spewing this garbage? :unmod:
:shrug:

it's still pizza, but not sure how taking home an uncooked pizza to feed the family is comparable to a place that cooks up a personal size pizza in a few minutes while you wait.

 
So if there's a game on you want to watch, you won't go to, say, a Buffalo Wildwings to watch it? Get a little food, a few beers, slap some high fives?

Eating alone inside a fast food restaurant sounds awful. Why not just take it home?
I eat alone all the time. Eating at your desk is better somehow? I don't see why.

I haven't been inside a Buffalo Wild Wings more than once in the past decade. I think there's only one in Chicago and it's not very good as I recall.

If I'm going to watch a game, I'm going to a bar. Bonus if they serve decent food.

I wouldn't worry about watching a game at a Five Guys or Blaze Pizza or Chick Fil A since I'll be in and out of there in less than 20 minutes.
Eating at my desk is just part of the job working for a west coast hedge fund. :shrug: Saves money not buying lunch every day. Usually have leftovers or just eat an apple. I also work from 8:30 to 3 at the latest, so I'd rather have short days than a full lunch hour.

I like bars too and would prefer to go to there for a sporting event. But again, I have a lot of kids and I can't always hang with the fellas or go by myself to a bar. You will find that out soon enough, GB. Especially if you have more than one. So during football season, it is a nice treat to take my sons to Wildwings where we can watch the football games, eat some wings, play some trivia and hang out. There's other options too, but that's just an example. I'm not going to defend their food quality; I just like a spot where everybody is happy.

And if I AM going somewhere alone to eat, I'm going somewhere where I can belly up to the bar, read, have a beer, glance over at ESPN on TV and enjoy the peace and quiet. I sure as hell am not going to a Five Guys where people scream, throw peanut shells and huff down soda.

 

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