Let me spin you a yarn...
My husband and I had a long day at work and decided pizza, jojo's, and fried chicken from Mark and Philly's was the route to go. We placed an order and it was delivered precisely on time. Fantastic driver and delivery. However....
We open the pizza box to discover a frightful sight. The pizza was extremely undercooked. Now, I'm no stranger to undercooked pizza as someone who use to frequent Papa John's.. But there's a limit. The best way I can describe the pizza was runny, or maybe gluey. My husband calls the establishment and explains that the pizza is undercooked. However, Philly says that is not possible since there oven reaches 500° and I quote, "If you're that concerned, finish cooking it in your oven".
We were flabbergasted. Dumbfounded. Speechless. My husband and I make eye contact and stare at each other for a minute before deciding that we need to visit this pizza shop to confront the owner and get our money back.
We pull up to the shop and walk inside... I can't even begin to explain to you how nasty, disgusting, and dirty this place was. The red brick was brown. Cobwebs on the ceiling were black and chunky. The floors haven't been washed in years. The cash register and office ceiling tiles were yellow and covered in layers of what I can only describe as a mix of dust and grease. Just horrid. If you do not believe me, please do order pickup and not delivery.
Anyways, my husband sets the pizza on the counter and asks if Philly can put it back in the oven to cook it the rest of the way, considering we're required to cook this to completion ourselves... Now, my husband was being a bit of a butt and really only said this to start some banter... However, and I cannot stress this enough, SHE PUT IT BACK IN THERE OVEN!!! Keep in mind that a few of these slices had bites taken out of them.
We're watching this all unfold and in the background Mark is making fried chicken without gloves. This would not be an issue if not for the fact that he was also touching pizzas, jojo's, subs, salads, and whatever else they had back there without washing his hands. When our pizza was "finished" he still hadn't washed his hands and touched our pizza. He also put the pizza pan that our contaminated pizza was on back in a box that he had originally pulled the pizza pan out of. I guess this was the "clean" pizza pan box. If you can consider anything in this place as clean.
We left without any fuss. At this point, we were just side eyeing each other with confused and mortified looks. We were halfway home before saying anything and the only thing that was said, and I quote, "I cannot believe she actually put that pizza back in the oven". When we got home and assessed the pizza, you would not believe what we found. It was still raw. Please just be careful ordering from here. I have never felt so ... Well since it's only been a few hours, I can't even describe properly how I feel. Disgusted is definitely a good word for it. read more