The Pie, A Review

For some inexplicable reason, The Pie Pizzeria is the holy grail of Utah pizza for many people. I will venture to say that it is because The Pie is the first none-chain restaurant that many Utahns attend. With that said, my thesis statement for this review is. "Better than Little Caeser's, but I’d rather have dominos"

Remember the method I will follow from the Salt City Review. 75 points over five categories lets get right to it. If you are reading this you are wishing I would shut my mouth and get on with it.

Service 15

Service was great! They had a nice progressive college girl meet me. Again I do these reviews early in the morning because I work the night shift. (BTW Early in the morning for a pizza joint is 10:00. if you didn't already realize that. not to many people are eating pizza for breakfast. Lord knows I would if they would open early enough) but still they seemed to have a full staff. They served me quickly. For a pizza a restaurant.

One of the biggest things they did that helped their service rating is the front counter girl made sure to tell me about all my options despite having a lip ring and purple hair. I don't want you all to think I am being negative about this girls style choices. I have just realized that in this world the type of people that fit this girl’s mold are usually not the greatest at customer service, or empathy. Or thinking about anyone but themselves. This girl had a cover I found unpleasant. But the book inside was nice and empathetic.

Yet, most importantly she made sure I knew the cheap options, the better quality options, the drinks were refillable if I agreed to dine in. she was good. And I'm sure her hipster buddies are all trained to be the best customer service representatives available. As is to be expected with a pizzeria trying to be from the old country, New York, there are no uniforms per say. Just nose rings and beanies and dark eye shadow.

Location and identity 13

I would venture to say that this category is the single largest thing that keeps them in business. The delusion that the public has about the quality of their pizza just comes from the hype that people have built up around it. They are honestly just as good as pizza hut or dominos. There is nothing special about the pie that makes them good. All their unique taste qualities make them worse actually. But more on that in the fast segment.

Their Ogden location is just outside of weber state university on Harrison Blvd. they aren't set right against the street but they are good about making sure you have signs that lead you there. However because they are so set back, they get marked down two points on this. Word of mouth and Brand are strong with this one. At least in my social circles. 


Menu 9

The menu is big, and right out in front. They are good about making sure that you know what their best pizzas are. But it was still pretty hard for me to understand. As far as no-nonsense haunt. They are all nonsense simply because they are trying really hard to not be nonsense

Price 4

I will get to the taste in a minute. But basically I spent 25$ just to guarantee I had heartburn for the rest of the night. The grease will be in me when the archeologists of the next ten civilizations unearth my grave. One will say to the other. "What is that there, by his pelvis?" and the more senior of the two will say, "Oh that is pizza grease from The Pie pizzeria” it is pretty expensive and not really that great.

Taste 3

I feel I have made it abundantly clear that I didn't like the actual pizza. As I said above, it just was disappointing, when I tell someone from Utah that I love pizza they instantly say. "Try The Pie! It is so great!" and frankly it just isn't "so great." its just ok. And that isn't good enough for me. When the community expects you to be great, and you expect yourself to be great. You can't be worse than a DiGiornos pizza.

Over all rating 44 out of 75

That’s a 58% on my totally subjective futile scale. So take it or leave it, but I give The Pie 2 1/2 stars.