Food, Drink & Dining Out Pizza places lying about size

[BORK]

Just grabbed a couple of family size pizzas from a new place. Am used to the large =12 inches, family=15 and party=18 size standards.

This place advertises and even had written on their boxes that their family sized pizzas were 16 inches hence bigger than their competitors. Because of this I was more alert to what looked like an underwhelming "16 inches".

Hence the tape measure comes out and the most accurate reading we could get was 13.8 inches. When equating this to surface area that would equal 149.57 square inches. A 16 inch pizza should have a surface area of around 201.06 square inches. They had provided pizzas with more than 25% less than they advertise.

What stood out to me was that this place was advertising a slight niche of a larger family size pizza than their competitors around this area therefore they should have had an even further obligation to live up to that claim.

I am wondering how many of you have become aware of pizza places ripping you off in this way. Have never actually measured a pizza before but would be interesting to know how common this is.

(inb4coolstorybro)

 

[Eth]

Cool story bro.

But you should have taken that pizza back and told them you were 2.2 inches short.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

At a guess, the dough size would be measured in weight by the store, rather than inches. The 'inches' is purely for customer education/marketing.

From there it would be rolled out/thrown to the right size, but then during the cooking process the elasticity in the dough would see it shrink somewhat.

 

[Poseidon]

What Nesbit said.
The dough shrinks when cooked, the measuring would be done pre-cooking.

 

[thurmanmunson]

Did the pizza taste good at least?

 

[dales.girl38]

A while ago we ordered 2 pizzas that were a different size, but when we compared them, they were identical...the family one was just in a larger sized box.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Call Today Tonight immediately.

 

[lemon chicken]

Call Today Tonight immediately.

LOL.


I always thought the size was in relation to the size of the pan used.

 

[WCErevival]

What would be the point of quoting the pre cooked size? If you advertise it a certain size it should be delivered at that size.

 

[grizzlym]

Well, if their competitors have a larger family pizza as standard then they are making a claim that cannot be substantiated. It's clearly a form of false advertising.

I got a story for you about cheapskate shop owners though.

Years ago, when I was putting myself through post grad, I worked at a bottleshop. Down the road was a milkbar operated by a particularly nasty piece of work bloke. Young guy. Mean as. And as stingy as they come.

We'd often get his customers wander in and whinge about being abused or other such antics. Once he was selling stolen/parallel-imported cigarettes... the give away was the Arabic writing on the packs.

Anyway, this one day a regular walks in with a loaf of Tip top bread and a quizzical look on his face.

"What's up Glen," I said, "is the bread stale or something?"

Glen then proceeded to launch into a rant.

"Bloody Graham (milkbar owner), I've been suss about the loaves of bread being under weight for months now."

"Say what," I replied not a little puzzled.

"The loaves have always seemed under from Graham's joint," he ranted.

"But check this out," he said as he shoved the loaf of bread forward and pointed at some fine print on the packaging.

So i did and it read something like: 'contains 2 crusts and 14 slices'. (This isn't accurate but you get my drift.)

"Read that?" he said.

"Yep," I replied even more puzzled.

"Well, I just bought this loaf from Graham and it's 2 pieces of bread short," he replied with a mixture of annoyance and elation.

"He's taking a couple of slices of bread from every loaf of bread when it's delivered, then resealing the loaves. Then the sneaky bastard uses the bread to make the freakin' sandwhiches he sells," Glen shouted.

"I see," I slowly replied finally getting what he was on about.

"I confronted him about it before," Glen said, and before I could answer he continued, "he banned me from the milkbar for good.... told me to stop making making trouble or trouble would find me."

True story. Today Tonight would love that one.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

So your dad's name is Graham then?

 

[grizzlym]

So your dad's name is Graham then?

Ah no, but my Ol' Man lived around the corner form this guy and had quite a few run ins with him.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Ah no, but my Ol' Man lived around the corner form this guy and had quite a few run ins with him.

Stop derailing the thread or i might report you to a moderator

Anyways with some of the bigger chains, the pizza sizes have visibly shrunk over the years, I guess however if people are not willing to let them know...

 

[muttweed]

Stingy fast food places are not new to us.

I could literally eat a McDonalds cheeseburger in a bite.

I've posted this in another thread but I had an encounter with a stingy kebab caravan in Melbourne the other week.

Note, we used to always go to this caravan because it was so reliable.

Anyway, I got my kebab with extra meat to find that it smelt a little odd. I took a bite anyway and realised right away that the meat wasn't lamb like it said on the menu. It was a beef snag shaved to look like the lamb that they usually put in kebabs. I went and complained and they denied it like hell.

I'm European, I know my lamb. I hate tightasses.

 

[TheStinger]

I went to Domino's a few years back (yes, yes I realise that was my first mistake) and ordered a meat lovers pizza with chicken. The chicken premium was $2 extra. Not sure why chicken is always extra at these places, but whatever.

I get it home and not only was the meat rather sparingly placed on the pizza, but there was literally one small piece of chicken on each of the slices of pizza. Actually, a few of the pieces didn't even have chicken. There was probably 6 little pieces of chicken on the pizza.

I could have gone to Woolworths and bought an entire chicken for $6 and they are charging me $2 extra for a few measly pieces. I took it back and said what gives.

There answer was that all of the meat is distributed by weight. The added chicken is 50g. They don't say that anywhere in their store though (well they didn't then). If the menu said $2 for 50g of Chicken, you would laugh your way out of the store.

The guy then said there was a state manager there and they had to weigh everything and be accurate tonight, so I got what I paid for. I didn't even bother with the manager. I just walked out saying **** this shit.

That was over two years ago and I haven't been back since. Local Pizza Bars FTW!

 

[savagelunchbox]

I'm European, I know my lamb. I hate tightasses.

Sig worthy that!!!

 

[lewigie]

Sig worthy that!!!

Hahahah nice

 

[Sepoy]

I worked at a servo while at school and a lady filled up $20.02 thinking she was a hero by getting the 2c free, then realised by paying card she would pay the 2c she went to ATM a good 150m away and got a $20 note out so she saved the 2c,

I'd just like to know would anyone here do this? i found it the most stupid and hilarious thing ever

 

[Quadzilla]

I worked at a servo while at school and a lady filled up $20.02 thinking she was a hero by getting the 2c free, then realised by paying card she would pay the 2c she went to ATM a good 150m away and got a $20 note out so she saved the 2c,

I'd just like to know would anyone here do this? i found it the most stupid and hilarious thing ever

Nowadays, if its not your bank's ATM, geting $20 out might cost you $2

 

[DerpWerls]

I worked at a servo while at school and a lady filled up $20.02 thinking she was a hero by getting the 2c free, then realised by paying card she would pay the 2c she went to ATM a good 150m away and got a $20 note out so she saved the 2c,

I'd just like to know would anyone here do this? i found it the most stupid and hilarious thing ever

That is incredible

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

When they first got rid of 1c and 2c pieces everything was rounded down.

In the initial stages, students, pensioners and the unemployed would go to the supermarket and buy grapes and cherries, they would take them off the bunch or just hand over the cherries one at a time and have the operator weigh them. Each one would be less than 5c so it would round it down to zero.

True story.

 

[Cruyff14]

If you're actually going sit there and measure a pizza before eating it clearly you don't like pizza that much.

Eat the ****ing thing and be done with or don't go back again.

 

[muttweed]

If you're actually going sit there and measure a pizza before eating it clearly you don't like pizza that much.

Eat the ****ing thing and be done with or don't go back again.

Do you own Dominos or something?

People have the right to be fussy over something they've paid for, which is more often than not overpriced.

If it's about the size of the pizza so be it. They put their hard-earned on it, they can do whatever the **** they want with it.

Most would prefer to not be ripped off. Is that a problem to you?

 

[Benno_900]

They make the base by weighing the dough and then rolling them out to fit the tray. They generally shrink when cooked most of the time.

Small = 200 grams
Medium = 300 grams
Large = 400 grams
Family = 500 grams

 

[Cruyff14]

Do you own Dominos or something?

People have the right to be fussy over something they've paid for, which is more often than not overpriced.

If it's about the size of the pizza so be it. They put their hard-earned on it, they can do whatever the **** they want with it.

Most would prefer to not be ripped off. Is that a problem to you?

No, but I have eaten Dominoes and do enjoy their pizzas.

If people are going to complain about pizza size they could always make their own.