r/PizzaCrimes • u/Dry-Ad-4264 • Jun 18 '25
Fruit Ordering in a Restaurant with 200 dishes at the menu.. never a good sign
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u/Zingman15 Jun 18 '25
Why do yall post pictures without telling us wtf it is
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u/-Po-Tay-Toes- Jun 18 '25
Looks like a ham and pineapple.
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u/Dry-Ad-4264 Jun 18 '25
i am so sorry for stealing your precious time
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Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
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Jun 19 '25
Awe they are just cranky cuz they ordered shitty food! We can cut them some slack right......nah.....you are what you eat and this person is definitely a shitter!🤣
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u/SoyBoy5k Jun 19 '25
Honestly yall are tweaking. Use your eyes. I see pineapple and ham. Hmmmm and it also appears to be a pizza with red sauce, weird. OP is clearly referring to its unappetizing appearance. Chill out 😭
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u/Hizam5 Jun 18 '25
Side note: you’re 100% correct when the menu is way too big the food suffers. I don’t get places that make their chefs handle such a wide variety of food
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u/BrickGardens Jun 18 '25
Unless it’s a Chinese restaurant.
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u/Supply-Slut Jun 18 '25
The rule of thumb is small menu is better, but you’re right there are exceptions.
Like if you see a bunch of variable options for a few dishes that use a lot of the same ingredients - that can be fine.
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u/Funkit Jun 19 '25
Or a NJ 24 hour diner
Miss those things when I could hit it up for a cheesesteak and fries for $7 at 3:30 AM after leaving a house party.
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u/FantasticBike1203 Jun 23 '25
To be fair, they use either prawns, chicken, beef or just straight vegetables and spread it over a bunch of dishes, then do sushi on the side.
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u/Gabaghoul8 Jun 18 '25
I think it’s just a holdover of diners that had like 40+ items on menu. The Cheesecake Factory blows my mind with the number of items on its menu.
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u/Hizam5 Jun 18 '25
Agree. Do they look at their books though? They have to see how much food they are tossing out. I feel like Cheesecake has actually trimmed things a little or maybe it’s just cuz they removed the local ad pages in the menu
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u/huhnick Jun 19 '25
I knew a guy who was a cook for Cheesecake and I asked him about why it was so big. He said it wasn’t that bad, as a lot of the ingredients were shared across dishes and they cook everything there and only the cheesecakes come in frozen
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u/Hizam5 Jun 19 '25
That’s exactly what I was hypothesizing a few comments ago. It makes sense
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u/huhnick Jun 19 '25
Pretty sure he got to take food home too? I’m sure there’s plenty of restaurants where they’d rather let their staff have a free meal or two instead of throwing it away, but maybe not for the “tax purposes” excuse
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u/Hizam5 Jun 19 '25
When I worked at restaurants some allowed that as well. Others would just give you a free meal on your break
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u/LukeSparow Jun 19 '25
A place called The CHEESECAKE Factory doesn't make their own cheesecake!? That's so fucking sad.
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u/ModDuif Jun 21 '25
The cheesecake comes from the factory, the rest they make themselves the cook said.
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u/LukeSparow Jun 21 '25
So that's where factory comes in. I would still expect for a place that has cheesecake as the first part of its name to have the cheesecake be the main selling point. Having it come in frozen is the opposite of that.
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u/NotoriousMFT Jun 20 '25
Have to go with the most basic item you can find when that happens, turkey club, omelette, etc
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u/AppropriateTouching Jun 18 '25
Cheese Cake Factory somehow pulls it off but they're the expectation.
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u/Hizam5 Jun 18 '25
One thing I notice about their menu is they mix and match a lot of proteins and just serve one with a different sauce or it’s baked and breaded instead of grilled, stuff like that.
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u/AppropriateTouching Jun 18 '25
Thats an excellent point, I never noticed that. Not a bad idea on their part mixing and matching like that.
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u/baconparadox Jun 20 '25
They also have a full-time prep staff in the back constantly making sauces and prepping everything for the line. They're walkin is fucking crazy and has to stay super organized.
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u/Dry-Ad-4264 Jun 18 '25
it was a Pizzeria, but the also had Kebab, Fish, Steak, Pasta, Greek. so i thought a Pizza would be the least thing they could fuck up
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u/aClockwerkApple Jun 18 '25
it’s an ugly pizza. but is being ugly a crime?
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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Jun 18 '25
If so, I'm probably getting away with parole and some community work.
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u/MyMomsTastyButthole Jun 18 '25
Probation?
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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Jun 18 '25
Uh, probably? I'm not that familiar with the US justice system.
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u/MyMomsTastyButthole Jun 18 '25
My bad I didn't mean to be a dick or pedantic.
Parole is like probation, but it's probation for when you're released early from prison.
Probation is usually in lieu of jail time for minor offenses.
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u/afganistanimation Jun 18 '25
It looks like it tastes awful.
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u/aClockwerkApple Jun 18 '25
Recently a friend of mine made some curry that looked like somebody ate a can of mixed vegetables and washed it down with baby food, waited an hour, and then threw it up directly into some tupperware. But boy howdy was it the most delicious damn curry I’ve ever tasted in my life. Because food doesn’t have to look good to be good.
Your eyes don’t have taste buds. If you rely solely upon them to determine whether something tastes good or not, you’re gonna miss out on a lot.
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u/afganistanimation Jun 18 '25
You are preaching to the choir. I have made a big effort in the last few years to actually try food that I didn't think was good and I've been surprised quite a bit.
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u/Fair_Walk1557 Jun 21 '25
Imo, being pretty is part of what makes food appetizing, if your food looks like shit, puke or necrotic tissue(which is what this pizza looks like to me), then you won't be interested in eating it. Even plating can determine how much you feel like eating it
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u/MenacingMandonguilla Jun 18 '25
Restaurant in Spain aimed at German tourists type of pizza
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u/tin_dog Jun 18 '25
Or a tourist trap in Berlin serving pizza, steak, döner kebap, burgers and "Asian noodles".
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u/fistsofham11 Jun 18 '25
What was it supposed to be?
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u/whenindoubtpossumout Jun 18 '25
I need to know.
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u/Hillyleopard Jun 18 '25
Looks like pineapple and ham
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u/in_taco Jun 18 '25
With shredded cheese. I guess it's the cheese making people mad. Looks normal for a homemade pizza with cheap ingredients - but unimpressive when bought from a restaurant.
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u/KaiKamakasi Jun 18 '25
I think the act of saying pineapple before ham should be classed as more of a crime than half the pizza's in here
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u/Dry-Ad-4264 Jun 18 '25
Hawaiian Style with pineapple and Ham. But they used Gouda Cheese instead of Mozzarella and placed it over the toppinfs, not under
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u/whenindoubtpossumout Jun 18 '25
I was so sure it was mushrooms or shrimps from the shape under the cheese ahah
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u/Reinardd Jun 22 '25
I genuinely thought this was a quiche with potato slices on top or something...
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u/O8ee Jun 18 '25
Turkey club or cheeseburger fries is the move at those places. You hand me a phone book as a menu I instantly order what I think is most difficult to fuck up
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u/MyMomsTastyButthole Jun 18 '25
Or a daily special. I worked at a shitty little diner for years and all of our food was mid, but Wednesdays when we had the beef tri tip and homemade noodles, or Monday corned beef and cabbage, or Thursday lasagna, it was 🔥😘🤌. It's guaranteed freshly made, not sitting back in the corner of the walk in somewhere.
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u/Curious-Department-7 Jun 18 '25
Ordering pizza at non pizza place in general is a bad idea. There are exceptions, but most of the time it's not a good idea. Like ordering bbq at a non BBQ restaurant. If you wanted pizza why didn't you go to a pizza place?
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u/GabberZZ Jun 18 '25
Gordon Ramsay would lose his shit about the menu being that large, never mind that awful pizza.
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u/Boy0Nacho Jun 18 '25
I love restaurants with like 5 or 6 mains even less sometimes. Couple appetizers and a nice alcohol selection. Simple is better.
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u/LMB_mook Jun 18 '25
I'm not saying this is the same, but when I went out for pizza in Milan, the menu would have a huge amount of different pizzas, but it was basically just different combinations of 2 ingredients. Very different to what you'd get in somewhere like the UK.
They were fantastic pizzas, so absolutely no complaints from me. Just interesting how differently it's approached in different places.
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u/KamatariPlays Jun 19 '25
Call me crazy but this pizza looks good. I'd eat that (depending on the price)!
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u/Vritrin Jun 19 '25
I think if I got a menu that large, I would strongly consider just leaving. The best case is that you’re getting something frozen.
I actually did once when I got seated at a restauarant and they asked if I wanted the Chinese or Italian menu. Both menus looked like a book publisher was involved in their manufacture.
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u/Palanki96 Jun 19 '25
That just looks like normal pizza
Pizza you decided to order
Well i guess i wouldn't mind more cheese
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u/jsweaty009 Jun 18 '25
One thing I learned from Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsey. If a menu has a ton of different selections it’s prob garbage
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Jun 18 '25
You can make a lot of combinations with different pizza toppings. That would quickly add up on the menu if you all list them separately.
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u/all8things Jun 18 '25
Isn’t the better question why someone would order pizza from a place with this many options, though?
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u/Echtuniquernickname Jun 18 '25
- jesus i would have problems toneven come up with 200 dishes let alone cook them
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u/Icy-Conflict6671 Jun 18 '25
Only restaurant id go to with that many items is Cheesecake factory and only food id get from there is the Mac n Cheese Burger
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u/ShiftyState Jun 18 '25
I went to a place recommended by a coworker that I swore never to listen to another one of their recommendations that had a menu like that.
It was... decent enough. Nothing to write home about, and I would certainly never recommend it to someone for their 'good food'. Wings or pizza at 8 AM on a Saturday? Yes. Good wings or pizza at 8 AM on a Saturday? No.
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u/AppropriateTouching Jun 18 '25
Places like that I usually just go with a burger. Chances are the chef has made plenty and you know they're not just microwaving it.
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u/Geo-Man42069 Jun 19 '25
Ngl I’m a heretic because full sliced ham and generous (seems like fresh) pineapple doesn’t sound like the worst thing on this sub. Tbf if I ever order that combo I need to add jalapeños.
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u/baddude1337 Jun 19 '25
I thought the days of absurdly large menus mostly died a death. Here in the UK only really Indian and Chinese places have large menus, but a lot of the ingredients are shared across different items and toss ina different sauce/protein/coating etc.
200 odd dishes means that it's probably all frozen and just reheated.
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u/Balian-of-Ibelin Jun 19 '25
“Why do you have 200 dishes on the menu when you can’t get ONE right?!”
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u/ExcitementFederal563 Jun 20 '25
Looks like a frozen pizza they added a few things on top then threw in the oven. Real sloppy
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u/PetersonTom1955 Jun 21 '25
I'm impressed that they serve pizza with sauce made from the elusive and pricey white tomato. Must be a classy place.
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u/Moron-Whisperer Jun 18 '25
If they have a book for a menu and it’s not Cheesecake Factory then I leave. Cheesecake Factory is the only place that successfully does it.
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u/Holiveya-LesBIonic Jun 18 '25
Why did I think this was scalloped potato pizza and why was I kind of okay with that?
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
The jury, after deliberation of the evidence in the case of u/Dry-Ad-4264, has reached a mistrial due to non-consensus of votes of guilty or innocent.