Hey, someone just mentioned this on Slashdot and I made a snarky remark about it.

Maybe we are connected cosmically.

Are you a girl?

Wanna have sex?

The My Little Pony Killer: Only open two nights a week? What a waste.

/I wouldn't trust the "freshness" of their ingredients

They need the other 5 nights to wash off the smug.

The My Little Pony Killer: /I wouldn't trust the "freshness" of their ingredients

Might be one of those places that buys the ingredients the days that they're open.

The My Little Pony Killer: Only open two nights a week? What a waste.

They didn't say what two nights. It could be Friday/Saturday or Saturday/Sunday if it is the owner's side business and they work other jobs during the week.

Pizza Facebook?

They shop at local farmer's markets and the food co op the days they are open. Ingredients are never old. I've had their pizza many times.

Woo hoo! Glad these guys got some good publicity. I buy pizza from them at least once a week, and am friends with the owner (who was interviewed.) They're stationed about 3 blocks from my house.

If you're ever in New Orleans, seriously look them up. Some of the best pizza you'll ever have.

The My Little Pony Killer: Only open two nights a week? What a waste.

/I wouldn't trust the "freshness" of their ingredients

I know them personally.

They're operating out of a test kitchen, pick-up only. Just because you're not operating 5 of the 7 days a week doesn't mean your ingredients are sitting in the fridge rotting. They prep just the same as any place, with the same timeframes. Just happens to be 2 days a week.

Other than a few standards, they change their pizzas every week. Or twice a week. So if they have a pizza with arugula... they source that arugula a day or less before opening that night.

Look up "pop up restaurant". Its a new trend, and its a very cool way for people to have access to unique types of food without someone having to invest all the time and energy in opening/licensing/leasing their own place.

The only reason I can get filipino food, good mexican food, and NY style pizza in New Orleans is because of pop-up restaurants.

The My Little Pony Killer: And it doesn't really matter which two nights those are if they're still using ingredients from three weeks ago.

You don't know anything about operating a pop-up restaurant. They're open Thursday and Sunday, if you want to know the specifics.

They get their ingredients either that day or the day before.

They don't even have the space to store ingredients beyond those two days, as they're using someone elses kitchen.

How is this so hard to understand?

The Applebees of the world store everything frozen because they can and their customers don't care.

People who run real restaurants (7 days a week or pop-up)... spend the morning buying ingredients for the day (except stuff that can be stored for weeks at a time, like dairy, etc.)

I'm good friends with a bunch of chefs. They're out, as I type this, ordering ingredients that need to be fresh.

I thought Facebook ads were there only to be screengrabbed and posted only when something extremely weird popped up on the side of your page. Like how it is always asking me to help cure addicts or something. I didn't know anyone ever clicked on them, unless the mouse hit one by accident.

The My Little Pony Killer: /I wouldn't trust the "freshness" of their ingredients

Oh, absolutely. Everybody knows that things like pepperoni and cheese need to be just-made for them to be any good. No self-respecting Italian chef would just let that crap hang around for weeks on end.

Their storefront says ಠ__ಠ ಠ__ಠ

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Pizza Facebook?

Hey, that's Pizza-fah-chey book to you!

squegeebooo: Why so serious.

It's just pizza get over yourself, your "friends"won't give you free food for defending them on the internet.

Not taking my pizza too seriously, but the "freshness" comment was just too much stupid not to comment on.

intelligent comment below: The article confused me. It seems like a bad example. It says 74% of NO residents already "like" the restaurant, so are you really going to get much new business? The better example would be to find a new restaurant, and have them use Facebook to advertise their grand opening, maybe put up a coupon in the ad, then see how much business you get.

Its not yet *that* popular down here. The sheer majority of their business comes from the immediate neighborhood, and through word of mouth.

atomic-age: "Pizza Delicious" is a really stupid name for a restaurant.

Maybe, but at least its not a pretentious one-word name.

Sounds like their business model would be better served by sending reminder emails and posting on facebook every Thursday and Sunday morning and throughout the day to remind people they're open that day. Mayhap with pics of the delicious speciality pizzas of the day.

/meh, they're probably doing this already
//I just like like saying 'mayhap'

marcre3363: I just checked out their Facebook page. I think the obvious problem, as mentioned before, is that they're open two days a week.

Actually they leased a space and will be 6 or 7 days soon-ish.

downstairs: atomic-age: "Pizza Delicious" is a really stupid name for a restaurant.

Maybe, but at least its not a pretentious one-word name.

You're right. Hipster food bugs the hell out of me.

I mean, they could've just gone with "," and had the whole menu be stuffed with crap like, "This artisanal margherita creation is crafted from a hand-tossed, cracker-thin, cornmeal-dusted crust, which is then lightly-kissed with extra-extra virgin olive oil before being dressed with fresh roma-tomatillo puttanesca and a blend of asiago, romano, parmesan and our house-made mozzarella/buffalo, then fired in an imported, wood-fired stone oven first built by old-world Sicilian craftsmen, then carefully disassembled, packed, shipped, and lovingly-recreated right here in our kitchen."

Screw you. Little Caesar's sucks, but at least they're only selling me pizza. Not pizza and a goddamned pretentious kennel pedigree.

pute kisses like a man: however, this thread and downstairs talking about pizza delicious makes me want to check it out.

/ since I live in new orleans.

Tip: call it in around 1pm or so, and schedule a time to pick it up whenever you actually want to eat. If you call at 7 or 8, you may have a long-ass wait. And don't go there to order... again, it'll take forever.

pute kisses like a man: downstairs: pute kisses like a man: however, this thread and downstairs talking about pizza delicious makes me want to check it out.

/ since I live in new orleans.

Tip: call it in around 1pm or so, and schedule a time to pick it up whenever you actually want to eat. If you call at 7 or 8, you may have a long-ass wait. And don't go there to order... again, it'll take forever.

thanks for the tip. I've been looking for a good pizza, and good new york pizza sounds just about right.

Also realize the pizzas are freaking huge! I'm not kidding- it doesn't fit through my door straight. Me and the wife get dinner (each) and a lunch (each) out of one.

Kar98: So how much of the $240 went to you then? Or Drew, for that matter.

Heh. None, just giving a shout-out to a neighborhood place... which I'll always do in New Orleans threads.