MOD Pizza — Restaurant in Houston

If you haven't been to MOD Pizza you have missed a unique pizza experience. It is sort of a SUBWAY version of pizza. MOD stands for Made On Demand. As you enter the restaurant, you will notice the Ordering Line is to the right. There is a large menu board which lists several pre fixe pizzas and salad bowls. But skip that and proceed to the person who will start building your order.

For pizza you have two sizes a 6" Mini pizza or the 11" MOD. These are thin crust, individual pizzas, so no more fighting or compromises over the toppings. If you prefer thicker crust, they offer the Mega, a double crust option. In addition to their standard crust, they offer a gluten-free crust and a cauliflower crust.

The first thing you should notice is the price. The 11" pizza is $8.29, no matter what or how much you put on it. The 6" is $6.29. The prices seem to vary slightly by location.

Now comes the fun part. Aside from the standard Marinara sauce, you can opt for an Alfredo sauce, barbecue sauce, garlic rub, pesto, and/or extra virgin olive oil.

Once you have the foundation, you start building. Before the cheese, you can add greens (arugula, romaine, spinach, basil, spring mix), crushed garlic, rosemary, oregano.

As you go down the line you'll find plenty of cheese options. Mozzarella, Parmesan, asiago, ricotta, gorgonzola, feta, and even a dairy-free cheese.

Next, you'll be greeted with plenty of meat options, mild and spicy Italian sausages, pepperoni, salami, ground beef, grilled chicken, bacon, and Canadian bacon. My big disappointment is that anchovies are no longer available at any of the locations that I visit.

Top off your pizza with traditionals like black olives, Greek olives, bell peppers, onions, jalapeños, or pineapple. Or maybe add a more artisan touch with roasted broccoli, roasted corn, artichokes, or my favorite, roasted garlic cloves. I like to finish the construction project with a ring of garlic butter and Parmesan cheese at the edge of the crust.

Finally, when you pick up your pizza about 8 minutes later, you'll have another set of options - the toppings - which range from the hot (buffalo sauce, sri-racha sauce) to sweet and savory (pesto drizzle, balsamic fig glaze, ranch and barbecue.)

If you like to count calories (or like me, should count calories,) MOD Pizza's website lists the caloric value of every ingredient.

So, if you are looking an alternative to greasy fast food burgers or fried chicken, or don't have time for a pricey restaurant, MOD Pizza will be a welcome...

I’ve been to this location before with out incident, but our stop in last night at about 9:15 pm for a quick bite was short lived. While in line I began to notice items that seemed out of the ordinary. First the was an older gentleman at the serving line taking orders and preparing customers pies “pizzas” who had a beard with no hair net, although I am not sure that it is required I have seen beard-hair nets worn by cooking staff at other restaurants. Secondly there was the guy loading the pies into the oven/fire pit. And all seemed fine until I noticed he was scratching his forehead (just below his baseball cap) with his bear hand, then he turner away to grabbed his glass of water and drank from it while still standing in pie loading area. Although I am not sure if staff should be consuming liquids will preparing people’s meals, I give him a pass because I assumed the heat from the opening can make one feel exhausted. Without a skip of the beat he turned to the waiting table where the line guys/gals place the prepared uncooked pies and picked one up after the other and loaded them into the pit WITH THE BARE HAND HE JUST SCRATCHED HIS FOREHEAD WITH. It was a so disgusting I turned to my wife and told her we couldn’t eat here tonight and walked out. Then I thought ... he’ll never know how to improve himself if I don’t say anything. I walked back in discretely pulled him to the side pointed out to him what I had just witnessed. He replied: “we are not allowed to wear the plastic gloves because they will melt on our hands. To which I told him again: I cannot eat here tonight because I saw you scratched your forehead with your bear hand then place two pies into the oven using that same hand and walked away. As a walked out he didn’t think to go wash his hands, he simply went back to grabbing customer pies and loading them into the fire pit/stove with...

My first time experience was a bit exciting, choose your pizza size, salsa, toppings and they toss it in to cook.

I went home and told my wife “Hey there is this place called MOD Pizza, it’s like subway but instead of sandwich you kind of build your own pizza”

I went back the next day with my wife and daughter. My wife had 2 long hairs in her pizza. She was grossed out and didn’t want to eat I convinced to give them a chance to see if they could make her a new one.

I walked up to the register with the Hair Filled Pizza in my hands.

The cashier was taking care of another customer.

I didn’t want to say anything about the hair in our pizza in front of any customers so I decided to just wait until she was finished and mention it privately.

As soon as she saw me walk up with the pizza in my hand, she stopped helping her customer and looked over at me, gave me a snobby look and with a rude attitude said “Is there something wrong with the pizza?”

To this point I was being nice, and I kept it cool, but she made me feel extremely undervalued as a client that I just said. As a matter of fact yes, this pizza has 2 disgusting hairs in it” I said it with the same attitude she gave me.

They offered to remake it but never apologized, or offer to make up for it.

I manage a small business and if any of my clients have a bad experience, my team and I go above and beyond to make sure we make up for our mistakes.

This place never took ownership of what happened, instead just remade the pizza as if nothing happened

We sat there but couldn’t continue eating and ended up leaving

Wouldn’t recommend this location simply due to lack of customer service, lack of business etiquette, and finding 2 FREAKING HAIRS STICKING OUT OF THE CHEESE IN...