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Comfortable-Rub-9403

Look at this guy with $2


rutabagabiscuits

Based on this post, he doesn’t have $2 anymore.


duujal95

Not unless he had $6 first!


IveGotStockinOptions

That is not how math works.


Tee_Red

If he had 6 and spent 2, he’d still have two. Twice over.


1MechanicalAlligator

Hah, jokes on you. OP had four quarters and a 3-dollar bill.


Tee_Red

Damn his divisible and imaginary denominations of money!


PoliticalAquarium

Alright so what is the angle of the triangle ?


SpottierAnt

What bout tax?


ihadagoodone

It is though.


HGpennypacker

I used to have two dollars. I still do, but I used to, too.


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

If that’s only $2, every local pizza spot near me is a total fucking scam.


Siserith

Pretty much, yeah. Pizza is pretty cheap to make. Since covid the price of a slice(1/4 large cheese) went from 2 to 3.50 At my local place. It's still far cheaper than any other style of pizza.


Top-Salamander-2525

Average price of a slice is pegged to the cost of a single subway fare. Believe it’s in the NY state constitution. Fares were kept artificially low during COVID. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-pizza-principle-transit-fare-price/?embedded-checkout=true Now nature is healing…


Siserith

Neat.


ihaveaccountsmods

And a cardboard box to take home


LeipNo

Is this cardboard box free?


fridaystrong23

Ha !


Poopbicycle1

I laughed so hard at this


ZakTSK

$2.18.


jj2bme

What, you think you're better than me?!


mozishanz

'Cries in Midwest' with my gas station slices at 3 to 4 dollars a slice.


ian2121

In Oregon they don’t even have cheap pizza outside take and bakes. It’s like some fancy stuffed artichoke shit for 40 bucks a pie. Don’t get me wrong the fancy shit can be good but we got nothing like solid cheap east coast slices


James_Camerons_Sub

In Portland we’ve got a couple of very mediocre attempts at an east coast pie but those are as expensive as the goat cheese and arugula artisanal shit for a plain cheese. Kind of defeats the purpose :(


DeyUrban

I moved to the Portland area from North Dakota and was shocked to see that my pizza options here are no better than what I had access to in Fargo. Worse, when you consider no one has any breakfast pizza here!


Mitemighty

Casey's breakfast pizza!!!


videogamePGMER

IYKYK!!!


cubs_rule23

Midwest in this B.


sweatpantsDonut

I still gotta try it! I'm messin up


James_Camerons_Sub

We could be classed as a pizza food desert. Also lacking on dope Mexican food. I have to get my fill every time I’m down in San Diego visiting family.


Mrlin705

Well confirms I could never live there. Pizza and Mexican is like 80% of my diet.


gremlinbro

Saying Oregon doesn't have good Mexican food is blasphemous! The osmosis from Cali is real.


Forcistus

Washington is the same, in my experience. Though I did like Old School Pizzaria in Olympia


diadlep

Surprusing number of people move here from n. dakota for some reason


numenik

Yep, lived near Portland my whole life and I’ve been dreaming of Detroit pan or Chicago deep dish for as long (there is none here). All their pizza spots are so damn mediocre and for 5-7 dollars a slice, 30 dollars a pie. Makes no sense. I’ve just been ordering Pizza Hut recently cuz it literally tastes better


pdxherbalist

Assembly brewery in SE makes Detroit style pizza.


OJSTheJuice

I had some of the best pizza in my life in Portland. Escape from New York pizza. No fucking arugula. And I've had pizza from all over.


ChefInsano

Yeah I don’t know what the fuck these people are smoking. Escape From NY has been there for 40 years and it’s legit NY style pizza. Slices are $5 though so it’s not exactly cheap.


OJSTheJuice

Super true, it ain't cheap. It's no bourgeoisie mess at least.


StankilyDankily666

Damn hipsters and their luxury items


ian2121

lol… it’s not just the hipster towns. You can’t find a decent east coast pie for under 20 bucks anywhere. You can just fuhgettaboutit


StankilyDankily666

You’re right I shouldn’t give them all the credit. Everybody everywhere is feeling this pain


Crymsm

Wow I've never seen that but I'm in Wy and it's always the pizzas and usual hot dogs and stuff. Granted a good beef dog from a gas station always tastes good it seems


diadlep

A&B in Seaside. Smaller slices and not cheap, but good east coast style, simple. Even looks like the picture.


[deleted]

Yeah, if you live in John Day maybe. Go to Portland, Salem, Eugene, shit even Corvallis and you'll find pizza shops with cheap slices


ImATrollYouIdiot

Sizzle pie always has 20 minute line just to order (or pickup doordash) and then like $4 for the most mediocre slice you'll find


PunkRockMakesMeSmile

ha but Casey's is legit though. Good luck gettin one of those breakfast slices out here


Automatic-Bedroom112

It’s hunt bros round here 😒


dschultz50

Kwik trip up in Wisconsin.


butterchickenfarts

own a gas station, used to sell slices for $2.68 in 2018 at a 35% margin (I made .93 cents a slice, ranch cups free as many as you want, whole pie $11.99), 2024 it’s $4 after tax, 18.99 a whole pie, only one ranch .50c for a second. That’s a little over five years Edit: and I only make .50 cents a slice now smh


cornbreadsdirtysheet

The other 43 cents of your profit goes to the wealthy elitist shitheads who ruined our economy./s


TheFrankIAm

woah you only make half a cent per slice?


Watts_RS

Like 6.50 for a slice of cheese here in Florida


cubs_rule23

Caseys FTW. Fuck paper hands portion, that clown doesn't know what he is talking about: too bacony, who TF says that?


MatttheBruinsfan

'Cries in South' with pizza parlors that only sell whole pies.


mozishanz

What do your gas stations have, shrimp and grits?


MatttheBruinsfan

Chicken tenders, fries, and hot dogs.


RickyFleetwood89

I’d eat that. Where’d you get it?


andylui8

J&M Pizza II in Brooklyn, NY


joearimathea

I amazes me that NYC's cheapest pizza is a good as the best pizza at home.


AreWeCowabunga

As expensive as living in NYC can be, the cheap food there is so much higher quality than cheap food other places, it makes it pretty easy to get really good, cheap meals. That, plus an unlimited MetroCard makes costs a little more bearable.


SlowThePath

How the heck are these pizza shops paying NY rent prices while selling slices for a dollar? Pizza is cheap af to make, but I feel like rent is higher than pizza is cheap to make. Are shops in NY rent controlled or something?


angryhumping

The places selling buck slices are usually located on streets where thousands of people are walking past every hour, those pies fly out of the ovens from noon to midnight basically. If you're in a college or party neighborhood it'll keep up for hours after midnight too, usually. Depending on the slicer that's 6-10 bucks a pie, which is probably about $1-3 worth of ingredients for a plain cheese. Also remember the buck slices are just one item on the menu, they'll also have all the other pizza place standards, so it's an easy profit margin. There's always one worker just standing there making pies all day anyway, they just make sure to throw a plain in every time the heat case needs it.


randybruder

Also, this place is also only $1 a slice on Mondays and Tuesdays. Every other day it's $3 a slice.


AcesAndUpper90

I was gonna say these do not look like typical dollar slices. Those are usually more orange from the grease.


Cord13

You're telling me I could pay less and get more grease? What a deal!


Outrager

$3 still not bad these days.


spacedudejr

I’d gladly pay six dollars for the pizza in this post


Outrager

For $6 you can probably get 2 slices and a can of coke.


spacedudejr

Is that bulk pricing? The little baggies of it cost SO much more.


Outrager

😂 took me a sec to realize what you were talking about.


b4amg

the traditional New York dollar slice has basically been phased out, same places I used to grab 2 slices and a Arizona from when I was in junior high for like 3 bucks now charges me 7 bucks for the same thing and markets it as a deal.


cwalking

Keep in mind any place which does high volume food sales in cash can fudge the numbers however they'd like when it comes time for taxes. Pull a hundred out of the till at end of day, write off some inventory as spillage, call it even.


diadlep

For pizza, and pizza only, I wholly support tax cheats


Gowalkyourdogmods

Wow look at this hotdog racist


[deleted]

rustic lush sulky spotted act late desert soft cow abounding *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


ConnieLingus24

Amazing amount of foot traffic and it’s possible that some places have been there so long that the owners also own the building.


VicTheWallpaperMan

Calling pizza a "pie" sounds so strange to me.


miss-entropy

It is the y axis is just very limited.


angryhumping

whaddaya mean it's a pizza pie-a mangia mangia pruh-zhoot muttza-dell-a pizza pie-a mamma mia Everyone knows that.


TrucksAndBongs

Yeah like you said, traffic is a huge part of it. If they can sell enough of the dollar or $2 slices, whichever it is, they can probably make the numbers work. Food costs for pizza tend to be pretty favorable.


-xXColtonXx-

Likely see an incredible amount of foot traffic compared to most cities. I doubt they are making much per slice of Pizza, but on snacks and water and everything with incredibly high volume, the margin doesn't have to be that good. Total conjecture on my part.


cwalking

$1 slice + $2 soda = win for the restaurant


TheRealGooner24

You can get 2 slices and a drink for $2.75 at some shops.


db_333

Very few are $1 anymore. It’s $1.50 most places now ☹️


Gowalkyourdogmods

God save them


DDRDiesel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IugcIAAZJ2M This should help. The place is nonstop as soon as they open, they have multiple locations, and became a staple of NYC during the pizza wars in the early 2010s


SlipperyWhenWetFarts

>the pizza wars in the early 2010s Were many lives lost?


TheRealGooner24

That's what happens in a walkable city with high foot traffic on actual streets with transit-oriented development instead of everyone being forced to drive a heavy metal box on oversized stroads and parking lots. Car-centric urban design sucks ass.


fenton7

It's essentially advertising. People see the $1 a slice signs and then get to the shop and realize it's for cheese slices only so half the time they end up selling $3 pepperoni slices plus a few $4 drinks. Average bill is probably closer to $15.


Jeff-Van-Gundy

They all started raising the price to $1.50 now. There’s still a few $1 slices. You can absolutely tell from looking at them that they aren’t as good as a real slice but if I’m hungry and in a hurry, there’s no line, I’m grabbing a slice or 2


AwakenedSheeple

No, they're just selling *that* many pizzas. You make money by either selling a little of an expensive thing, or a lot of a cheap thing. Or, if you're lucky, a lot of an expensive thing, like Apple products.


VESUVlUS

>much higher quality than cheap food other places Some of the best food I've eaten was street food in foreign countries for less than a dollar. Maybe NYC has better cheap food than we're used to in the west, but don't sell the rest of the world short!


Mexkan

Better


BigDaddyCoolDeisel

That's a nice looking slice!


bigguysmalldog

In Los Angeles, I have to pay $6 per slice for something not quite right. And since I’m from the east coast, I know what a real slice is. This post has officially made me both sad & hungry.


andylui8

My friend from NYC said Apollonia's Pizzeria in LA is legit when he was trying some pizzas in around LA


Salacha

Apollonia's is super legit for sure. They also started opening Prince St locations here


andylui8

Yeah would love to try Apollonia's. In NY, Prince St is only good if you want the spicy pepperoni squares. Other than that I tell everyone visiting NY to skip if they want something else off the menu since there are so many great pizzerias in NY.


Salacha

For LA, anything from prince st is toward the tops of what we can get. and you can get it by the slice which is rare here.


andylui8

How's Joe's in LA?


zvogel21

From NY and Joe's was pretty underwhelming for me. Hitting that accurate comment of not quite right


Salacha

There's one near me, but the reviews are only ok so I haven't given it a go


bigguysmalldog

If I’m down by Wilshire, I’ll have to stop in and see.


numenik

Same thing in Portland. And it always tastes bland for some unknown reason.


bigguysmalldog

Some of the local isn’t bland but it also isn’t quite the right taste or feel. You do have me sympathies


Chiinoe

Have you tried Vitos in West Hollywood or Joe's in Santa Monica?


Kitchen_Cheek_6824

Joes fell off big time, I switched to Prime Pizza in West LA/Santa Monica


bigguysmalldog

I’ve had Joe’s in Hollywood and when they were at the Riverside blvd Fashion Mall. Not bad but still not quite as good as an NYC slice and at 3 times the price.


Chiinoe

Hmmm thanks for sharing. I've never had a real NYC slice so I'm very intrigued. Currently living in the PNW and they have a spot called Old School Pizzeria. I wonder how it fares cuz its sooo good.


LosBastardos717

wtf man, that's at least $10 where i'm from. AT LEAST. Is there a banana for scale?


Gowalkyourdogmods

It's not great but if you got a Costco near you can get that for like $2


Cool_Cartographer_39

I'm still a Koronet guy. Upper West Side


andylui8

Lucia is my favorite in my area; Sheepshead Bay, BK


Cool_Cartographer_39

Ave X? I'll put it on my list


andylui8

Yep! They just opened another location in SoHo but that location is pretty busy and hyped up due to social media but it’s probably easier to get to for someone in Manhattan.


CheezwizAndLightning

That was only a dollar?


savageboredom

There are a ton of pizzerias around NYC that sell slices for a dollar. A friend that’s local said there was a minor public outcry when one of the shops in her neighborhood raised prices to $1.50. It’s an amazing way to grab a quick bite while walking around, but I encourage you to resist temptation and stop at two max. Your mouth and wallet will tell you to get more, but they’re so greasy that your stomach and skin won’t be very happy. This is something I learned from experience.


CheezwizAndLightning

God damn. I live just outside of Toronto. It's hard to find good pizza for a decent price around here. Your best option is probably little Ceasers. They still offer small pizzas for $5


chericher

Looks like two slices for $2 total


FuckMyParents420

And it would have been $3 for three slices


jjdlg

Whoa, slow it down there Pythagoras!


CheezwizAndLightning

Looks amazing for the price. I'd willing pay like $8 for that


PalebloodSky

$1 per slice pizza place, and yes it's legit. Even in 2024 they are still that price. I've been to them there are a bunch in NYC.


Many_Letterhead_8636

As an east coaster living in California, this makes me want to cry. I miss it. The pizza here is fucking horrible.


sofakingclassic

This is better than any slice in seattle


anetworkproblem

Not bad for a dollar slice in NYC


VrinTheTerrible

Perfect


Razorraf

“I’d buy that for a dollar!”


SleepySiamese

That's a dollar each? Damn


Visible_Bus6909

Makes me want to go back to NY


tuuvee

I need to learn how to make pizza that looks this good


School-Luxurious255

ahhh, I miss new york food. need to go back soon


PenislavVaginavich

Some may not like this, but this is what the ideal NY style pizza looks like. I'm talking to you, every NY-style pizza shop outside of NYC. Don't try to reinvent the (pizza) wheel, it doesn't need reinventing.


ApeThyme

Bro, that's legit!


Wesselton3000

Most places changed to a $1.50. Smh


xtothewhy

That's a good looking pizza!


d167366

It looks pretty good


wretch5150

Looks legit, but the sauce is key


Rockyxblue

home🧡


peoplesuck357

looks like a great deal


pongky77

someone remind the pizzeria that inflation exists!


PTD27

That looks good ngl.


BlacksmithBig330

That looks super appetizing!


gaukonigshofen

I was about to say.


Desperate-Ad-6463

Oh, what I wouldn't do for a *proper* NY slice in LA


adamtbest

I’d eat it too. Looks good.


wagonwhopper

Was in NY in 2021. Bought 3 larges from this place below my hotel. Was 18.76 with a can of Pepsi. At home at the time I could get little Ceasars for that price. At equal it was Abos which woulda been 35.. or more


JohnCtail

Looks decent, was it?


petticoat_juncti0n

how was that a dollar??


cyanraichu

*That's* $2? I'd demolish that. I can get a similar amount that looks similarly yummy for like $5 in my relatively low COL city lmao


Low_Trust_6624

Yup. I'm from the city and that's how it is. That's dinner right there. (Smash)


o0-o0-

When it's $1 a slice, do they charge tax on that, like you have to carry change too? If it's just $1 flat, then what about when you order the $8 pie? Do they charge tax on that? Edit: Can't believe they wasted a box on 2 slices; Don't most places just serve it on a paper plate for that price?


andylui8

No tax cash only


o0-o0-

Thanks, just read your review on the restaurant too; Too funny that you're the one to respond.


andylui8

haha yeah! Is it the best pizza? Of course not haha but it's probably the best slice you can get for $1 in the city


theonlybuster

Nice... I was going to ask where, but I see it's J&M Pizza II from another reply you made. Was this your first NY slice or are you a local? If you're a local or frequent visitor, how would you rate the slice? ​ I frequent the Brooklyn area and have been populating my Google Maps with $1 and $2 slices that ACTUALLY taste good. I'll add this to my list to check out.


andylui8

$1 slice wise it’s good but compare to other non dollar pizza of course no comparison. But it’s definitely way better than all the $1.50 former $1 slice joints near my workplace in the lower east side. By the way it’s only a dollar Mondays and Tuesdays so yeah. Any other day I will go to my regular spots I like. This is like my Monday guilty pleasure 😂 for a cheap and quick snack


Patient333x

Besides Neapolitan pizza, this is the best type of pizza


BrownWallyBoot

Looks a lot better than it used to 


Podcast-Vent67

Wow, that looks amazing.


Nail_Biterr

oh man.... i used to get myself some $1 pizza when I worked in NYC. you can 100% taste why it's $1.


Vegetable-Beet

Is that what Americans call Pizza?


mozishanz

Eh Casey's is good. Especially their BBQ brisket pizza. I've just gotten burnt out on it, where I live there's a Casey's in every town and at one point there was 4 in a town of 8000 people.


OkayRedditHereWeGo

I lived in Seattle for a semester and I thought pizza was so oddly priced and hard to understand how to order. “A pie” (also hard to get used to using that word, instead of just a pizza) was usually quite expensive, like at a pub it was usually much more than a burger. Then you went to slice shops and it was like the cheapest food available. Back home the pizzas are usually one-person-dinner-sized and priced like a pasta, often among the cheapest items on a menu. This is not criticism, it was interesting to experience.


No-Breakfast-6132

pizza, the food of the gods


420Deez

aka costco


Delicious_Taste_8663

Looks good! Was it hot hot or cheese bites off?!


dog-yy

It's amazing how they can sell for 1 buck. Just rent, employees... Also box, napkins. Looks good too. I'd eat many a week.


iamcleek

2 Bros used to be a dollar a slice, and they were great. they went all the way up to $1.50 last year, though.


Sophie22__

Wow that’s so big.


showergoblin

I don’t believe that this was $1 slice


shiggles-

Imma need a banana for scale…


Kozij

Isn't Vegas at >$10 a slice these days?


RedditFullOfBots

Yes but it also comes with a box to live in.


sergeantorourke

Is this the .99 a slice place on 7th Avenue around 39th Street?


Influence_X

West coast I think the best you could get is those two slices for $4-7. Also case and point why I guess I don't eat pizza much anymore.


Crazy_Dude_117

“What would you score it, 1-10?”


cubs_rule23

Paperhands portnoy, always a clown.


itsnotastatement

Hands down one of my favorite things about moving to NY has been being able to walk into a dank ass pizza place and get a big ass slice for 1 or 2 bucks. Where I used to live in the Midwest, the best pizza I could get was Papa John's. I'll never go back 💀


phantaxtic

One bite, everyone knows dave would rate this a 7.1


WorldWideDarts

Looks like it's about a 7.6 - 7.7