MOD Pizza — Restaurant in Cary

You're dead to me, MOD.

Behold two pizzas, below. Both ordered online for pickup with a note: "Double cheese, please".

The first (my pizza) has bare spots.

The second (my son's pizza) looks like someone read the note.

Now in the past when we've ordered at MOD to either eat in or take out, the person making the pizza has told me that an extra sprinkle of cheese is all they can do because of the "one price fits all" model. If I ask for double cheese, please put twice as much on my pizza and charge me an extra dollar.

Or it's possible that two different people made these pizzas, which might explain why they're different. Two different people might have different ideas of what "Double cheese, please" means. The problem with that explanation is that it shouldn't. Matter, that is. MOD portions the cheese with a ladle, so just portion two.

So...first world problems. With all that's happening, who really cares right? Well, this is not the first time this has happened. In fact, this seems to happen every other time we order online. In other words, it's consistently disappointing half of the time.

Through lockdown, we've continued to order out to maintain some variety and continue to support local businesses when and where we can. So we've eaten a lot of pizza since March. Also, Shackburgers. We greatly appreciate the option, and all the people who continued to work at MOD and elsewhere so that we would have that option.

But every other week I get a pizza with bare spots that I can't do anything about because I'm on an hour lunch break and can't take it back, and don't have time to wait for someone to make it again. And I don't want to linger in the lobby or outside in the parking lot while people who think COVID-19 has run its course stumble past me while they wipe their sneeze on their sleeve.

No thank you. For now, MOD, you are out of the rotation.

UPDATE (20200803):

Of course I am not the sole determiner of where we spend our lunch money. My wife also has a vote, and she likes MOD because they offer a gluten-free crust. So I've eaten at MOD a few times since I wrote this review.

I have no idea if anyone from MOD pizza read this review or not, but the last few pizzas I've had have all been ordered "Double cheese, please", and have been exactly what I ordered.

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