nando820

I really hope is not true. I am planning a birthday party this Saturday for my son at Chuckee... Not that he will notice, but I will think twice before eating it


https://www.aol.com/article/finance/...pies/23668660/

https://thetakeout.com/chuck-e-chees...son-1832590781

RichC2

So the simple solution is to not order a half-n-half pizza?

We've never run into that issue. Their pizza surprisingly isn't bad, and almost always jigsaws back together.

fujishig

Wait, so the theory is that instead of baking a whole pizza, they go around and take slices off the tables and assemble half a pizza, and bake half a pizza? What?

Noonan

Is it such a bad thing if you order a half/half if they just make two full pies, give you half of each, and use the rest for slice orders?

DVD Josh

I cannot believe in all my time on this earth that never even occurred to me lol. You are right, that's pretty reasonable.

GMan2819

Recycled food in any restaurant is probably more common than we know.

bunkaroo

Just order the pizza uncut. Problem solved.

PerryD

That's what she said.

AGuyNamedMike

As long as it never left the kitchen before being repurposed and isn't noticeably less fresh, I think it would be acceptable to most folks.

Mrs. Danger

Of all the things to worry about. That your low end pizza is cheap.

kd5

So Shane Dawson (whoever) makes a YouTube video about a strange looking half & half pizza (because nobody makes 2 pizzas, cuts them in half and puts 2 odd halves together), manufactures a conspiracy theory about recycled pizza, and automatically it's newsworthy and everybody buys into it hook, line, and sinker? Sounds about right.

brayzie

That's what I would have assumed.
Then again the photo of the pizza with all these irregular sized pizza slices put together looks weird.
But it seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth to reuse left over pizza slices and have that be a company policy.

Yeah, I kinda feel bad if something like this hurt their business and it's based on a some random YouTuber just assuming they're reusing discarded food.

AGuyNamedMike

Also, Chuck E. Cheese is still an operating franchise?

sracer

This gives "pizzagate" a whole new meaning.

JeffTheAlpaca

I have not been there in decades

Troy Stiffler

fujishig

I have kids, I've been to Chuck E Cheese recently. And their pizza is not bad. Must be the recycling.

Abob Teff

DVD Polizei

Chuck E. Cheese is a franchise so the quality will vary from place to place. To say this is a franchise-wide thing is very unrealistic. Maybe one franchise does it, and the focus should be on that one. Some owners are just assholes, and this goes to any franchise. Also, of course the half-half will look different. They probably cook two pizzas and then put the remaining halves together. Not necessarily bad, if the pizzas are still fresh and aren't being used. For those who complain...it's CEC (kinda like complaining the beans in your Taco Bell burrito are from a not-so-fresh batch of beans), so you'll probably want to specify that you want the entire pizza cooked with half-half ingredients on it, and not parts from another pizza, even though they were made at the same time.

P.S. Haven't been to a CEC in over 20 years. There's a reason for that. Never did like their pizza per se (it wasn't bad but just wasn't something I preferred and the sauce was odd), and preferred something else.

RichC2

​​​​​​New ones have been opening here and crushing it

Bronkster

I heard the leftover kids were being used in the basement prostitution ring!

Josh-da-man

Dan

I ordered a half-cheese/half-pepperoni pizza from Dominos a few months back and it was pretty obvious they just made two pizzas, cut them in half, then put two halves together. Probably so the employees could say "oops" and eat the other eight slices.

The amount I care is about... hmmm... zero. Let 'em eat. They're (likely) barely making a livable wage and I'm some schmuck spending disposable income on some seasoned cardboard at 5x the price of the ingredients and labor combined, and I'm supposed to make a stink about them playin' the game so they have a meal at the expense of a 2.8 billion dollar business? No thanks. Let 'em eat. (edit: Dominos made 2.8B in 2017. Looks like CEC raked in 886M. They're both doing just fine I guess.)

Also, just for what it's worth, some dumbass YouTuber with shitty "Content" and twenty million subs is a bigger celebrity than most of us will ever understand. Just because we don't get it (and I assure you, I don't get this guy's fucking deal and he seems like trash to me), doesn't mean his fame isn't real.

Troy Stiffler

Shane Dawson is one of the few most-famous Youtube personalities. I've never watched one of his videos. But I know who he is. Though I guess you could name off some famous pop stars and I'd never know who they are.

This is kind of a silly baitclick topic I'd expect from BuzzFeed. Still fun to read about.

When I was a kid, my dad had a story of how a local Chinese restaurant would throw unused tea back into a pot. And I would guess they probably do the same with partial plates of fried rice and whatever else. It all gets stirred up and you'd never know. He also worked at a food plant, and had a story of a rat that ended up being processed into the food. Nom noms. But it gets so diluted you'd never know.

Watch some of the Chef Ramsey shows. Some restaurants are gross. They're small businesses. And margins are razor thin. Unless you're a pro, you'd never know how bad some kitchens are.

Brian T

I thought the big deal with Chuck E. Cheeses were the parent fights. This seems mild . . .