My wife and I popped into Gino's for the first time this weekend, and sadly it will be our last visit.
First, we had to veer around a mess of spilled ice cream and food in front of the entrance, which based on the crustiness of the spill it had been sitting there for a while. We walked in, and the place was pretty dead; no customers inside and in the 30 minutes were were there we only saw one person come in for a pickup. Just a few high-schoolers idly gabbing in the kitchen, apparently too lazy to go out and clean up the mess.
We ordered the cheesy bread, fried mushrooms, and a cheese pizza (yes, it was just the two of us, and yes we were starving :-) The pizza arrived, and the first thing I noticed was the puddles of grease pooling up on the surface, letting me know this was topped with that oily fake cheese rather than real milk cheese. No surprise, for $5 I wasn't expecting top shelf ingredients. The next thing I noticed was the pepperoni decorating my Cheese pizza. I let the cashier know about the mix up, and she asked if I wanted them to cook a new pizza. I could see the high schooler in the kitchen giving me the stink eye and knew that I would be getting some fresh pubes and saliva in my pizza and elected to take a pass on a replacement pie. And how in the world can you screw up a cheese pizza!
We ate the cheesy bread and mushrooms, and then asked for a box to take the pepperoni debacle to go. The cashier hands us a box that is slimed with grease and food debris; we ask for a clean box and more stink eye ensues.
Overall, my expectations were extremely low for a place that sells $5 pies, and Geno's still managed to disappoint me. The place seemed dirty, the food was greasy and lifeless, and the service from a bunch of high school rejects was atrocious.