Fun House Pizza & Pub — Restaurant in Independence

My family, friends, teams I coached, etc... have all frquented Fun House Pizza restaurants in both Raytown and Independence for over 35 years. During most of those years we believe they had the best pizza in KC. We used to buy a large combo and go to the old 63rd street and I-70 drive-ins and enjoy our pizza and watch the movies. Work friends of ours used to drive from downtown KC during lunch to the Raytown store just to get a Fun House pie! They had a huge reputation in the KC area for quality and quantity of toppings. Our family and friends would literaly fight over the leftover toppings that fell off the individual slices while pulling slices out of the box. Those sure were the days of great pizza!

Unfortunately, the last 15 years or so, both quality and quantity have dipped somewhat from those days of the past. Now when we have received our combo pies there are a lot less toppings, and in some cases, bare crust with little cheese. Figuring this is due to cost and inflation, is probably why it has become the norm for such a great pizza restaurant. No more extra toppings to fight over anymore, and lots more pizza bones (left over pie with no toppings) that don’t get eaten.

My wish is that the Independence store would offer the old style combo with loaded toppings like the old days. And if it cannot be done at the regular price, then maybe offer it as a special Loaded Combo price. Sure, the current pies can all be ordered with extra topping at a price per topping....... but that can really add up money wise when adding by topping. Fun House please consider this idea for those of us who miss...

I’d been going here for 50 years and it’s definitely not what it used to be. The pizza was “flat” and definitely not the big bubbly crust it used to be, toppings were sparse, and the crust, semi-doughy. It was a real disappointment. Even when I asked about the crust when I took the pizza, the personnel (who are extremely young) seemed indifferent to me as a customer. They told me it was the same original crust, but I would beg to differ. Appears they stopped using cornmeal for baking the crust as an ingredient to enhance baking in the crust too. Long gone are the days of standing on the bench seats lined against the window of their assembly station as a kid, looking through the glass as 3 or 4 sometimes 5! people assembled pizzas, slinging toppings as they went, the excess ingedients dropping and covering the very floor they stood and worked from. It was sheer delight! Boy, not now. Ingredients are stingily portioned as if they were in very short supply, almost as if failure was imminent. Balloons used to fill the gondolas of the round tables and kids everywhere had one when they left in those days. The stage that once boasted live bands in the corner now houses “junk” as a cluttered storage space. Gone are the black lights that enhanced the fluorescent caracatures of painted clowns on the walls which brought them to life. It appears they died, much as the spirit of the place has from the lack of attention to detail. While the interior hasn’t really changed all that much, the pizza surely has. It’s unfortunate. They used to have the...

I had a hankerin' for a really good pizza. So tired of the big box chains and their frozen crust, and the pull chain ovens that don't always cook the dough.

I looked up pizza in Independence and was like, yes, Funhouse! Oh my gosh, we used to come to Funhouse at least a couple times a month when I was little. It wasn't just the pizza, but the whole atmosphere.

As I waited for my pizza to cook, i watched someone preparing dough by putting it through some sort of machine that looked like it was flattening it out. I bring this up because it's not frozen dough being pulled out of a box. I got to watch them check my pizza while it was cooking. They have these big brick ovens. They would check it and turn it, and made sure it was done before pulling it out.

There's just somethin about those ovens and the crust! The crust kinda bubbles up. It's like the dough is so fresh that the pizza isn't super flat once it's done cooking. They do pop any huge bubbles while it's cooking (I saw them do it to mine), but man, that crust and the layers of toppings - yum!

As soon as I came home I had to eat 3 slices! It was soooo good! Their prices are on par with the big box stores. Oh and I also like how they cut the pizzas too. There's not huge slices that are way too big. They cut them in decent size slices that are just right.

If you want a pizza that has great crust, lots of toppings, dough is cooked all the way, fair prices, and a place you can actually take the family to and support a local business - Funhouse on 40 Hwy is the...