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| - This seems to be a new trend in pizza restaurants. It works like a Subway restaurant where you tell them what you want on your pizza as you watch them add each ingredient, similar to how Subway makes sandwiches. But at the end, you pay and your pizza goes into an oven. There are three competing restaurants within a couple of miles of each other that are offering this style of pizza. At Westgate, there is Fired Pie. At 99th Ave and McDowell, there is Pieology and, at Litchfield Rd and I-10, there is MOD (short for Made On Demand. And, coincidentally, next door to MOD is a Subway sandwich shop.) Pieology was started by one of MODs original founders. There are also a few more restaurants using this same concept, though not located here. They are called Blaze Fast-Fired Pizza, PizzaRev, Pie Five, Pizza Studio, Your Pie, Project Pie, and Uncle Maddio's.
Having already been to Fired Pie, I had an idea of what to expect. MOD has the 800 degree stone ovens, so a pizza only takes about 3 minutes to cook. While I enjoyed Fired Pie at first, I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for two days afterwards, so I haven't been back since, but decided to try MOD to see how it compared.
The staff are all very friendly and the prices are mostly reasonable. Drinks only come in one size, which is fairly small. Think of a typical red Solo plastic cup. That's pretty much it. They offer Coke products (serve yourself) and have lemonade and tea as well. If you order a beer, its served in the same, small plastic cup, and at $4.97, its a bit over-priced.
But I didn't come here for a beer or milkshakes. Oh yeah, did I mention they have milkshakes? Well, there you go.
The pizza crust they use is similar in size and texture as a flour tortilla (burrito size - 10") but, unlike a standard flour tortilla, it does have a raised crust on the edge. I had them make me a pizza with pepperoni, mushroom, basil, red sauce and mozzarella cheese. It was okay. Not great, not terrible. I do wish these places would stop with the generic toppings and start offering a little more creativity. For example, I would like to see a 'tangy' or spicy red sauce offering. I'd like to see smoked mozzarella, and where is the provolone? For the most part, all of the toppings are the same you'd find on practically any pizza menu, but here you can witness them making your pizza and can ask them to add more or less of each item to your personal preference.
The pizza (regardless of toppings) is $7.47. A drink is $1.97 and a 'mini' salad is $4.47 (and its a fairly large salad to be called mini.)
I'm glad to say that I do not have the lingering after-taste in my mouth that I experienced at Fired Pie. Still, the pizza offered me nothing truly unique or different from any other pizza place other than how its made. That's not enough reason to eat there. I still prefer Grimaldi's for the best pizza in town. But I can see how places like MOD, Pieology and Fired Pie COULD potentially steal the show. It's clever to give the customer more control over how their pizza is being made, but it could be a runaway hit if they gave customers more options for sauces, cheeses and toppings than an every other pizza place.
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