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| - Let me just start by saying that I'm a life-long Mineo's fan, and a die-hard one at that. I've been eating at the Sq. Hill Mineo's for 30 years, and have never had a single bad experience there, in terms of either service or food quality. I shout their quality far & wide, because I LOVE them. However, my job is out in the West End, and, having forgotten my dinner one night, I searched online & found a Mineo's 2 miles from my work -- hooray! I called them for pick up and had a slightly weird phone conversation with the girl who answered, when I asked if I could get 3 slices plain, and she responded "I'm not sure if we have any single cuts right now, let me check." They did (only 2), but she explained to me that they don't make a lot of "single cuts" at night, apparently preferring their customers to order whole pies. (Meanwhile, I've been ordering 2 or 3 cuts plain from the Sq. Hill location at least twice a month for 30 years, and they've never so much as blinked at the order.) Whatever. So I go to pick up the pizza & bring it back to work, excited to sit down to it. I was VERY disappointed, to say the least. The pizza tastes NOTHING like the Mineo's I've been eating my entire life -- which it absolutely should, as it's a small family-owned local chain, and I know for a fact the recipe is the same at all locations. However, this pizza had thicker dough (not necessarily a bad thing), the sauce was significantly less well-spiced, and the cheese was as bland as I've ever had. Honestly, Papa John's would have had more flavor, and that's saying something. I've no idea if all the other Mineo's locations do as poorly as this one does, but suffice it to say, I'll be sticking to the Sq. Hill location for the next 30 years too.
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