Pizza Parlor Review...Slicer + Merle and Callie

I've been meaning to get to this place for the longest time now, and today I managed it. I was riding back from Berkeley, and the route I bicycle takes me right to this pizza joint.

If you like a large selection of pizzas, and you only want to buy one or two slices this is a good choice. I was not disappointed in the pie. This is a stripped down operation, similar to a pizza joint you'd find back east, with a bay area flair of course. It didn't look like there were any Italians in there. They just sell pizza, by the slice, and beverages.

I got two pieces of pizza. Why would I only get one? This is what I'm living for. Some people eat to live, I live to eat. And the I on the keypad is right next to the O.  If you hit the O it would read I love to eat. Either way, both are true for me. I got a plain cheese and a sausage slice.

It was good New York style pie, even if Guido wasn't serving it up. When you pick it up, and fold it  the front end flaps over, and few drips of olive oil drips off onto the paper plate. The crust was thin, and the toppings sparse. Close to perfect if you ask me. The slices could have been bigger.

I only have four gripes about Slicer. They had no dried oregano, no tooth picks, the slices could have been bigger, and the price.

Regarding the price of pizza, let me breakdown the profit margin on pizza. This doesn't include labor costs, rent, insurance, taxes, advertising, la de da,.

It costs $3.00 for a slice of pizza.  That's $24.00 if you cut the pie into 8 pieces. That would be at least a $21.00 profit margin per pie. This is why people go into the pizza making business.

If you can sell 100 pizzas a day that's $2,100.00 a day, or $630,000.00 a year, operating 300 days a year. Back east people take two days a week off. Franchise that, and you're pulling down some serious cash.

Regarding the size of the slices this is my take on it. There's a pizza joint, in Santee CA, just outside San Diego, called Giant NY pizza, and that's the size they made in CT and NY when I grew up. They're at least twenty inch pizzas. You had extra large, large, medium and small. The extra large pies you used for slices.

This is an old hippie thing I have to drop on you. One summer in New York there was the pizza wars. There was a pizza joint where you could get a slice of good Neapolitan pizza, an extra large piece, for 9¢. A coke, in the bottle, 5¢ from the machine. A Mac Donald's hamburger was 11¢.

I'll leave it at that.

I give slicer two joints, out of three, for their pie.

Will I go back there? Yes.

My advice,. Get some tooth picks and dried oregano, Greek oregano, for Christ sake. A pizza parlor without oregano? A black, gay, republican? Make bigger pies and bigger slices.

With the inclusion of Slicer, this makes 6 place on Piedmont Ave. you can get  pizza. I got an idea. Let's have a pizza war.

Slicer is located at 4395 Piedmont Ave. in Oakland, on the north side, at the east end of the avenue, just before the light. I'm sure there's all the, like us on face book, twitter, BS associated with a business these days. That's cool, but it won't get you an actual slice of pizza in your mouth. I'm going to ride my bike over and work it off on the way home, next time I go back. Gotta watch the pizza. Pizza = pounds.

Our cat Merle can still get it up, and he and his sister Callie are mating again, for 15 years now. Callie seems to like it so why stop them? Good thing their both fixed.  Incest, a game the whole family can play.

That's it.

Life is what happens in between meals.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War