$1.50 Fresh Pizza — Restaurant in New York

"99 Cents a Slice" tremendously undersells just how good of a bargain this is. 8 slices together make a pie that measures a whopping 18 inches in diameter; for perspective, that 1 pie has more square inches of pizza than 2 Medium (12") Pizzas from Domino's or Little Caesars put together. Both of those, with their very best bargains currently available without rewards, can get you those pizzas for $6 each, ie. $12 total; and they'd have to mark it down ANOTHER 33 PERCENT just to match the price of the 99-cents-a-slice 18" pizza.

And let's be clear, the value per square inch of pizza is not the same here. This Pizza is still bona fide New York Style pizza served within minutes of exit from the oven, easily as good or better than what you can find in most fastfoodesque pizza joints as above. Ofc it's still New York City, and if you have more money to throw around you can certainly find better pizza; but if your budget is limited to Pocket Change, it's almost impossible to do...

Now $1.50, that's not cool, and you get a way smaller pizza than ever before.

I've been coming to this spot since the Times Square location and then this expansion, luckily it was nearby for me, and you can see on the walls they have newpaper clippings saying that the owner wanted to fight back against expensive food, but they're also doing the same thing every place in NYC is doing, charging more for food, but also skimping on the food. So I will probably not come back anymore, after all these years.

I know things are tight now, but they're also tight for...

This chain gets grief for having so-so pizza, but I have to figure that comes from snobs with extra money who define themselves by their hipster stances. I grew up in Jersey and I was pounding the streets of NYC since I was a kid in the seventies. This pizza holds up against the best I've had. But, most importantly, it fulfills all my pizza criteria: It's fast, it's fresh, and it's cheap. It gets you back on the street until you're hungry again and it's time to pop into another location... just like...