I have been to this specific MOD Pizza twice in the past month. We are done. NEVER going back again.
The first time, it was crowded, and that might explain why the staff handling the oven and "finishing/cutting" of the pizzas seemed frazzled, along with pizza's coming out so burned around the edges, that they trimmed off of the edges and still served them.
The most recent time was after 8:30pm on a recent evening. It was quiet in the store, with a few customers there waiting and eating. ALL 6 pizza's ordered came out severely burned around the edges, and they were quickly trying to 'make the pizzas look presentable' by trimming off significant amount around the edges.
The person handling the oven and pulling out the pizzas and cutting them again seemed frazzled, took a call and left the entire area where the oven and other employees were, then came rushing back 2 minutes later and was trying to frantically get pizza's out of the oven. Nobody took the place of "COOK" and watching the oven even though other staff were in the area. Remember, it was a quiet evening and there wasn't a rush.
There was no way this was going to fly with me. I complained that we would NOT be taking any of those pizzas and I wanted them remade, all while they were still trying to trim all the edges to make the pizzas look presentable.
Now, I will get the manager there credit, in that they apologized, gave me a full refund, and remade the pizzas, this time pulling out the pizzas from the oven so that they looked perfect. But what was odd was that they were still pulling out other pizzas from the oven that were still burned for other customers.
Gee, they made an effort to RE-COOK my pizzas correctly and pull them out before they were burned, but still couldn't do that for others. The person behind me waiting for their pizzas complained about the same thing.
Now if this was a one time deal, I could understand, But again, this was the 2nd time in a month at the same location on Novelty Hills with the same burned results.
Now, some may say that I am being too harsh and that this is way that MOD PIzza makes them. Gee, then why does the Woodinville location make them correctly? Why does the location at the Microsoft Studios Commons make them correctly?
Look at the pictures from the other people who posted reviews here. They look great. When they re-cooked my pizzas and actually DID THEIR JOB and watched the pizzas, they looked great. The first ones were hockey pucks with toppings, and they were trying to pass them off as pizzas that a family would eat. That is where the problem is. They weren't doing their jobs and tried to pass off the hockey pucks as pizzas.
How can kitchen staff at the Novelty Hill location look so frazzled both times I was there, in the same month with one night being relatively quiet.
This location needs to figure out a plan and execute it.
Will I return to the Woodinville location? Yes
Will I return to the Microsoft Studios Commons location? Yes.
Will I return to the Novelty Hill location? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Yes, they did refund me and remake the pizzas, this time pulling them out of the oven so that they looked like pizzas and not charred hockey pucks. But the staff's actions, taking phone calls and leaving the area, with nobody attending to the oven is just unacceptable and not a proper way to run a kitchen. read more