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| - I LOVE Peter Piper Pizza because the crust is thin and crispy. I like pizza that is still horizontal 30 min out of the oven, not the kind that is floppy and you can roll up. My favorite is super thin crust Supreme, cooked extra crispy or well-done. I love the crunch between your front teeth when it just comes out of the oven.
I come to this location only because I want to use a coupon at Joanns directly across the mall. I have a PPP about 3 miles from my house, Miller and McDowell, but it is not a corporate store, therefore does not serve the 3 salads. It only has a boring iceberg lettuce salad, to which you add your own tomatoes, and other "salad bar" ingredients. I go to corporate stores only for the delicious caesar salad, which is full of cheese.
Each time I come to this Riverview Dobson/Rio Salado location, Michael, the very tall skinny white guy manager, is sooooo cheerful and pleasant!!! I give him 5 stars!
I only eat here during the lunch buffet. If I do not come during the weekdays when school is in session, the place, e.g. today Memorial Day 2017, is ransacked. I think they should hire MORE people on days like this. It is pathetic, for which I give one star. Food particles all over the floor, 80% of the vacant booths have plates and food and trash in them, that STAYED UNCLEANED long after the people who sat there left. Those booths stayed UNcleaned the entire 2 hours I stayed there. Would be nice to clean the tables, and clear the trash up so new people could enjoy the booths, especially by the windows. Also food on the seats. I hate it when employees just brush the cheese and crumbs off the tables onto the benches for you to sit on.
The plate dispensers were always empty. How do you get the food with no plates. I gues the dishwasher could not keep up, cos later I saw paper plates. I said I come for the caesar salad, but I had to wait 30 min before I got some, cos no one had time to make more. This is AFTER I already told several employees, that the caesar salad needed replenishing. Tho they did fill the bowl once, I missed out cos I was not already standing there waiting for them to make more salad. Instead I was sitting at my table, which I cleared myself when I arrived. FINALLY , I tell Mike, the manager about no salad, and he cheerfully makes more right away. Mike is the only person who seems to "do things right away" upon request, yet he is only one person. I mean, this man has it in his capacity, to do this and that "right away", when no one else does. Maybe because he is "extra help", and does not have a specific assignment, such as making pizzas. He does it all to move things along.
Well the trash and untidyness of the restaurant is less than 1 star. It is one thing to have it be that way in the moment, but quite another deserving less than 1 star for it to be like that for HOURS, and see no one cleaning up from "time to time".
Also the pizza maker, who makes the pizzas each time I go to Riverview location, does not spread the goodies to the edge of the pizza like I experience at the 40th Street and Thomas location. Also 40th St pizza is crispier, somehow. It is not a fluke at both places, but happens again and again each time I go to both locations. Same result. It is all cos of Joanns coupons I go to this Riverview less desirable location. 40th St and Thomas is about the same distance for me.
Oh boy, all those tables unbussed when I left after 2 pm (arrived at 12), Mike's 5 star service and attitude, just could not outweigh all that mess contrary to Mike's "right away" service, to make me give it a higher rating than 2.5 stars. I assume higher management does not support Mike's level with MORE help during weekends and holidays.
When I went out the door, I could hear the screaming kids in the restaurant, half way across the parking lot to Joanns. I am a senior citizen who eats at PPP alone. If I were a mother with 4 kids under the age of 10, I guess I wouldn't even notice the "mess", and food all over the seats and floor, and all that "happy screaming and yelling", would I?
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