Blaze Pizza — Restaurant in Porterville

1st time visiting as we visit new places regularly while traveling the country for my husband's career position.

When trying a new place in order to get the best experience, we ask how restaurants such as works as far as like ordering, recommendations etc.. Let's just say they whispered very little information to help us out in any manner.

We then proceeded to each try a different pizza and crust. Starting with the type of staff member put less than a minimum amount of sauce,almost laughable.

Typically, a 12-14 inch pizza has 1/2 to 3/4 cup of sauce. This wasn't enough to cover the pizza, much less such a thin layer. With toppings, it wouldn't be noticed.

It's not a big deal I requested more... she put a teaspoon more on. Eventually, after repeating ourselves, we got it where it looks like the basic. Turns out we as well as people in front of us requested more of every topping we asked for due to the limited amounts they put on. It got to the point where I told the staff member she didn't need to worry we could afford to put extra to avoid the nonstop hassle of continuously asking for a basic amount. As we scanned over the basic selection of other toppings, one couldn't help notice the lack of quality/freshness of anything available. Including no tomatoes, they were out. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Towards the end of the line, there was a basically empty cooler of drinks in addition to the soda/pop available, but with it being half empty, who knows what they usually fill that cooler area with. When I requested a water I was presented with this little baby cup for my water, assuring I would be going back and forth. That was awesome since 8/10 tables were dirty, so I got to continue walking back and forth, looking at food on the tables. Overall definition can't find much positive in our experience besides the cook time. Pizza places are a dime a dozen, so we can't find a reason to come back. We can only guess they are about to close the doors which would explain unless this is how business...

Past two times have been the same. Very rude about the whole mask issue and even encouraging people to go to the Habit to get one which is great at advertising for the Habit but making their own company look bad. Then last night when we went they didn’t let us know they were out of a ton of fruit and veggie toppings til we were already at the end. Didn’t have a sign saying they were out and when I recommended they put one out you could tell she couldn’t care less. Horrible customer service. And the time before that they tried to tell us they didn’t have any marinara.. a pizza place with no marinara.. I asked for red sauce that they used for the pizza and the guy said stuff under his breath. All I understood from it was marinara. Like I said.. horrible customer service.

Edit: some places have their ups and down. For the most part I’ve liked the food they make. Don’t think I’ve ever met a helpful or friendly worker here but at least the food is good. Expensive for a little...

Ordinarily i would rate them higher, tonight they earned one star. I ordered dinner for my son and I. When the order was delivered to my house one of the boxes was completely empty, my son didn't get his pizza. I called to ask if they could simply replace the pizza and have it delivered to me, I was told no that they couldn't do that. They did offer to remake the pie and the pie and tell me that I could pick it up however I explained that I ordered delivery because I have a newborn at home and a three-year-old without a car seat. The manager explained again that they couldn't deliver ithat they couldn't deliver it and tried to blame the delivery driver for not waiting however the Box arrived to my house empty in a sealed Box by blaze with blazes...