While waiting for a plane at Sky Harbor airport and hungry for something to hold us over until we got to our final destination (don't you hate to hear the word "final" just as you're ready to get on a plane?) we passed up the opportunity to eat at the typical fast food places and wandered in to Sauce.
Neither of us had ever heard of it and assumed it was a one-location place because of the custom look to the décor. The employees also did not look or act like chain restaurant employees. For the most part take that as a compliment however it was a bit unnerving to see the burly security man hovering nearby. Not a good feeling while you're trying to eat lunch.
Well apparently there are 10 Sauce locations, which doesn't exactly make them a chain, especially since they are all located in Arizona.
One of the things that makes Sauce a 5-star experience is that, contrary to all logic about how human greed should work, they don't gauge their captive patrons with ridiculously inflated "airport prices", in fact their prices may be called cheap. And their portions are large, almost too large considering 99% of their customers can't easily take a doggie bag of Italian food on an airplane.
As far as quality, it's not only good, it's surprisingly good whether you factor in that its airport food or not. The pizza is head and shoulders better than that pretentious tourist trap that mysteriously always seems to have some out-of-town reporter claiming that it's the "best pizza in the known world" (ps - it's not).
This will probably be my go-to place at Sky Harbor from now on. They even serve breakfast. How can you lose?