$3.50 per slice. I assume the soda was $3. The register rang up $11. I added $2 for tip which I wish they would make clear it it goes to the hourly staff and not anyone who is part of ownership. There was also a cash tip jar. This was what I would qualify on the pizza scale as a higher end pizzeria in a professional office park so I assume the rent is not cheap. There's a few big corporate franchise ice cream and sandwich shops next door that are also on the premium category side of fast food.
The pizza itself as someone who worked for 30 years in New York City was totally unremarkable. For Florida however it was magnificent. So on the NYC scale I would give this a 5.5 out of 10. For Florida it's an 8. In fact in the entire central Florida area, not including Margherita style restaurants, which are even worse save for in College Park, I can't think of more than two New York style pizzerias that would rank 7 or higher. Yet the cost is now higher than what I paid for 2 slices and a bottle of soda at Joe's in Times Square right before the start of the pandemic. Joe's is far from the best in Manhattan and Brooklyn but it was the nearest to my workplace that always had a line out the door and was reliably consistent. Amazing to me because they must have churned out 5 full pies per hour. The walls were full of A list celebrities and if the celebrity didn't have a major movie in a few years they were taken down. That was sort of an attraction in itself.
Pizza is no longer the cheaper food option when you short on time. Seems like yesterday that my local pizzeria had a 2 slices and fountain soda deal for $5. And pizzas don't taste like that anymore. Like do you remember when the cheese would dry up in the box and it would look like small mozzarella pearls? And the crust even cold was tasty and didn't taste like supermarket Stella Dora bread sticks.
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