exactly right......dave's gotta cut down on the drugs just a wee bit

😂

1932 is a stretch. That would be so impressive it'd deserve a 10. But yea I get what you're saying

easily

Dave just doesn’t understand how some restaurants operate with a corporate chef and an executive chef and “pizza chefs” someone needs to explain to him about the dynamics of some restaurant operations.

Seriously. This is an 8+

@@jbball10112 his scores are all over the place since the pandemic

Hes is so embarrassed, its obvious.

It makes no sense

@@xxjongjongxx his scoring system is small shop, with a sad story gets extra 1 point. Big corporations get minus 1 point.

😂😂😂

He's so confused lol

even after its just been sitting in the box for like 25 minutes, still zero flop lol

I laughed so hard at that hahaha

@@AC-wl7ve to think we've been getting cheated by Taco Bell's "Mexican Pizza" for years

its not his pizza, he is just following directions of a chef. and giving those orders to people under him, like a kitchen manager. people use the term chef too lightly. he kept the score cus u cant rescore everyone knows the rules

I wonder how the mex food is??

Judging by the pizza, I’d bet it’s fkn great.

Absolutley agree 100%

@@galanvoorhis3 I can tell you've never cooked anything besides a Hot Pocket in your life or else you'd understand that making something good in the kitchen, especially something as easy to screw up as pizza, is dependent on the skills of the person making it regardless of how good the recipe is.

LOL, true ...

A group of businessmen that killed a 70 year old Italian man, stole his pizza, and started selling it under a new identity.

😂

If ya nervous when the fawkin health inspector shows up, ya should be nervous when people eat ya fawkin food, ya fawk

@@aznnp77 R.I.P. Luigi.

He’s probably still thinking about it despite filming this a week ago

Bro 7.8 what is wrong with him…

It honestly was such a cluster fuck of a situation... Nobody knows what's going on. One bite everybody knows the rules.

@@Shroomunati he said or 8.1 also but deep down I think he wants to rate it at nine something lol

Your talking shit before this even starts. Common Dave…. Why even do the review?

Same! 🤣🤣🤣

But he "thought it was a chain" CLEARLY if Dave went to Johns of Bleaker and they PISSED on his pie he'd still give it an 8.5 !

In all fairness he should do some research about the place and go back. I'm tempted to ride up there from Virginia to taste the pizza .

the pizza is good so you wouldnt be dissapointed. Just make sure you buy enough pies for the road trip back😂 @@whdbnrm3023

That's around the corner from my office..... Low 8s maybe.... Definitely not a 9

@@whdbnrm3023 Me too. Road trip!

Haha, perfect explanation

Hahahahahahahahahaha! thanks

Yup and a smart move and make a slight adjustment

Yep that's what I waS thinking ,its like in a movie., "no no no HOW MUCH!"

It's burned to shit!

@@oneball1926 That’s exactly how Dave likes them! Everybody knows the rules.

Man, he shouldn’t have underscored them.

This is a little fun thing he does on the side… Yes, it’s a passion project… But it’s like Gary Vee going to a garage sale. There’s a compulsion there. But this is not how he’s making his money.

I understand it: he would love to find that single-shingle, mom-and-pop shop that he can invest in and turn into a national chain. This is potentially that. He's not so much confused as he's thinking about how this could scale. I worked with a global chain that wanted to do the same thing. The problem is that people love local pizza and traditions. Pizza doesn't scale like burgers or burritos. The reason we have Chicago, Detroit, New Haven and New York pizzas isn't because everyone likes the same thing, it's because we all grow up with our traditions.

@@AC-gw4quto an extent yes, but his main goal with these reviews especially after Covid is help good small business pizza places blow up l

if Mario is the head chef and not Pedro Dave scores this 8.4

@@jonant8317lmaooooo

That’s what I was thinking. At least an 8.6-8.8

Facts. Real Ones know it was an 8.5-8.6. Crisp, and the reaction from Prez 💯

yeah fr i guessed 8.7 he only gave it a low score because he thought it's a chain pizza. fking amateur

Same, he needs to do it without the context of the chain and thinking it's weird that it's not some master chef old man with 50 years in the pizza game. Just review the actual pizza.

Same!

@@actuallynotsteve Biases will never disappear, people will hold a Terentino movie to the highest regard because of the legacy and history as opposed to like a new unknown director idk if thats even the right analogy but yeah

@@Coolgamer54321 Yeah I agree, and I get what you're saying. And yeah, I mean the saying "context is king" exists for a reason. The trick is figuring out what context influences certain things and trying to remove the biases you can spot to the best of your ability. You could see that Dave wanted to go ham on this pizza's score, but felt obligated to keep it modest because he believed it to be a chain. It had every trait he likes and was cooked to perfection, and he did a lot of the faces he does in high 8/low 9 reviews. After he said 7.8 and talked about it being "best chain pizza ever" 1000 times, he probably felt like he COULDN'T walk the score back to what it should have been without looking like a hypocrite, but that's kind of ironic. This is the review where we finally see the degree of Dave's score skewing based on rep, location, and owner back story. He talks all the time about how the pizza should speak for itself, but completely loses his mind when he finds a literal world-class pie at a place that isn't really too interested in pizza, and that doesn't have some long-time artisan maker.

4 rreal, usually Dave is way too generous to the pies that he reviews, this is very much the opposite. That pizza looked awesome and he fucked them over.

True statement🤣

Dave straight low balled them😂

Yeah I have no idea what he's so confused about. Restaurant groups are a big thing in the industry right now, and they usually have menus developed by people who may or may not work in the place executing it. It changes absolutely nothing about the quality of the culinary achievement the story is just less interesting.

He thinks in order to make good pizza you need to dedicate your life to it. Making the best recipe possible, not just some good chief who got a good recipe from his employer.

@@thefumexxl Couldn't have said it better myself. Restaurant groups are a big phenomenon right now and generally deliver a far above average product, and generally the presentation and professionalism of the operation is excellent as well.

My brain is all over the place watching this lmaooo

Coked up

‘I’m leaving with more questions than answers’ -Dave (with all the answers to all the questions)

Yea! I bet they were stressed until they saw the video

@@RDRK82 haha so true. there is absolute no mystery, except the restaurant has a great system for making food without relying on the head chef.

It means one bite it’s trash

LMAO!! Right!?!?!? I always wonder about that too!

That's how it is, everyone knows the rules.

One Bite is the name of his You Tube Channel. So, it could just be a branding thing.

One bite for everyone scoring the pizza....Dave can take as many bites as he wants......

💯😂🍕

Yes! As soon as I saw the pizza and saw his initial reaction I yelled 8.8

8.7 take it or leave it

@@nmespooks2241 not for you and either for me, 8,75

It’s gotta be the best chain pizza Dave has ever had.

💯

I closed the video after hearing the score It was deffo a 8.6+

8+ all day long.

I agree that Dave messed this score up. I seriously feel that he needs to do blind taste tests. Have him get driven around in an RV with the blinds closed so he doesn't know where he is. Then have his assistant go in and pick up the pizza, and have them transfer it into a plain brown pizza box so Dave doesn't know the name of the place. Then bring it into the RV so Dave can taste it and rate it. You screwed this one up Dave. I can't take your scores seriously anymore.

Also have a mini fan so he can’t tell the smell of the pizza since he has gone to so many pizza places he can pick up the smell of certain types of pizza

You can tell by looking at the pizza that the oven gets to surface of the sun levels of heat. They probably only have to cook the pizza for a couple minutes.

Well seeing as this is Jack's, I can safely say you are incorrect.

@@Lunarcheese72 its the oven, it’s the oven, it’s the oven. Did you get it yet?

@@mik3ymomo You are an old Italian. Goes to the wrong fucking restaurant and tries to play it off as still having it all figured out. So you've seen one coal fired oven and assumed you've seen all of tnem. An oven is an oven! You're a fucking genius.

Wifey and I love da' Anthony's Coal Fired¡☆!

Even though the pizza got a great score, it was one of the most awkward reviews.

No he said he was leaving with more answers than questions..

@@Woozlewuzzleable he should just give a damn score on how good it is, regardless if it's a chain. He has given pizzas higher scores just because of some family history stuff, which most customers don't care about. Let the damn pizza speak for itself.

Took the words out of my mouth. Instant classic for sure.

A true anomaly that deviates from decades of thorough pizza scientific method study and analysis. The fact that this is possible and truly exists may drive Dave into insanity.

It's like the first time he saw the Chicago office all over again!

But he wants to put it at 7.8 lol

only being able to see his head and the slice. lol

yes he can't let it go hahaaaah

And then all of a sudden you’re in the car and you hear a Big Crunch 😂

It’s a pizza shop that does burritos too, it kind of is wrong lol

@@bdbdkdfotbrveiwrules are meant to be broken 😂

You know the rules

"Cringe Worthy" review honestly. That almost stemmed on racist remarks, as if a Mexican chef could never make a great pizza as well as great Mexican food at the same time, but leave it to Dave to be an idiot & try & make the guy look bad for a pizza he loved. He can be such a dick!

@@dani-bossi9345 innovation has no bounds

The fact that he just confirmed that he’s purposely biased with his ratings depending on the type of establishment (family owned, chain, big business, small, etc) kinda makes his reviews functionally worthless, no? I mean, the guy is fun to listen to, but after this, I can’t imagine actually taking his reviews into account when deciding what places to try.

@@matt2522 food tasting reviews are ALWAYS subjective no matter who is doing the review and which criteria they are using.

@@Kizdo69 That’s a complete non-sequitur with regards to my comment. The problem isn’t subjectivity; it’s that he’s *not giving us his honest subjective opinion.* He’s saying “It tastes like an 8.1, but since I prefer not to give super high reviews to chains, I’m gonna be dishonest and say it tastes like a 7.8.”

@@matt2522 You’re missing the point, again. He bases his scores on his own criteria and here there is a clear explanation he himself said it should be in the 8s. The review is only “functionally worthless” if you autistically listen for only the score rating and ignore the other 99% of the video

Shaken

I always come back to this one, don't even know why

Same it's my favorite one and can't tell you exactly why lol​@@roryfitzpatrick3571

Billion dollar idea. Throw everything into that ad too

@@bendlor Billion Dollar Pizza for just $20. - Dave Portnoy

Exactly

Open 10 new locations and throw bank into that ad lol, 💰💰💰

Not everyone gawks gawks everything Dave says like you😮😮😮

That made me laugh, something out of a comedy TV show

Can't stop laughing

This really was fucking perfect. Made me actually burst out laughing, which unfortunately rarely happens lol

LMAO

yeah, that part tickled me too

I kinda get where he's coming from though. If it's not the chef's recipe, and you can get it at other restaurants in the chain, then it's a replicable thing that has a dot-for-dot ingredient list out there, and it kind of devalues it a little. Why come to this location specifically then? Will it be the same if you went to a different location? But it's not a chain so he's just confused lol.

A great chef can pretty much cook anything. Mexican is not that hard to cook at all, it's more prep early day and then put together and serve in many cases. And who cares anyway? Quality is quality, no matter who makes it. Prez messed this up bad..

that pizza looks like poolhall pizza overcooked and left on the floor for 5 hours. people are out of it.

@@gibbleway no, you obviously like different pizza. Which is fine, but the consensus on here is that he WAY underrated it.

​@@gibblewayGo order your pizza from a chain like pizza hut kid. You obviously don't know good pizza lol

I was laughing at how serious he was getting too. Going back inside and having a meeting with the head chef. Guys probably like all I did was make a pie

If he was serious he wouldn't let chain or not effect the score.... he would be objective and not screw those guys

Damn right. 8:05-8:10 is prrrrriceless

It was a balloon hovering lol

hahaaha 💀

😂😂😂😂

“I don’t trust this”

He gave them the best review they could ever have dreamed for.

The problem with corporate spots like this is that you can't guarantee that the quality stays the same vs. a family owned place with the same pizza cooks. So if dave gives them an 8.5 and a month later the chef leaves and the next one cooks trash pizza, people will go there thinking its still an 8.5

@@TheAngryAustrian You also can't guarantee the quality in a family owned small business either. Especially a successful one. Very often the kid who takes over has been so spoiled rotten by his predecessors success that they don't understand what made them successful. I worked for small business, I've worked for corporates. I stay union now, there is a reason I do. I copied this from my previous statement. Family owned business suffer the same problems corporations do. Hand the reigns to a shitty businessman, whether family or not makes success less likely to happen.

Everyone knows the rules

Mid 8 max get real

He changed it to 8 at the end.

Should be 8.8

@@pelangos You know he likes when he keeps eating it, otherwise he just closes the box. Around 8.0 is a damn good score!

The problem with corporate spots like this is that you can't guarantee that the quality stays the same vs. a family owned place with the same pizza cooks. So if dave gives them an 8.5 and a month later the chef leaves and the next one cooks trash pizza, people will go there thinking its still an 8.5

@@TheAngryAustrian You also can't guarantee the quality in a family owned small business either. Especially a successful one. Very often the kid who takes over has been so spoiled rotten by his predecessors success that they don't understand what made them successful. I worked for small business, I've worked for corporates. I stay union now, there is a reason I do.

probably has msg as a hidden ingredient.

@@stant7122 no way bro...next you're gonna tell me it has salt as a hidden ingredient.

When he pulls up the pizza above the car. Look at this!!!!! 😂

he might as well have been SHITTING HIS PANTS

Dave’s scores are like Michelin stars ! He takes this seriously

Shaken

I think it was a frozen pizza. Thats why he was confused,

Which makes zero fuckin sense to me lmao, all pizza makers arent fuckin Italian at all bro, and I've also had Italian pizza that was.. Meh😅 And I had my Black and Mexican and White homies at fuckin Ceces blow my mind so it is truly subjective and an art.. Anyone can do it🤷🏽‍♂️

😂😂😂

And isn’t Frank Pepe a chain?

Jacks... Shit pizza.. Now the best chain pizza.. I know they are different, but I'm looking for a way to see the irony in this somehow...

It's the only non chain, chain pizza

Director of operations came up with the recipe, everybody knows the rules.

Absolutely correct! If you are willing to mentally focus, apply yourself, and put in the hard work to learn you can build the competency and skill-set to be very good at cooking any cuisine no matter how alien it is to your own background or upbringing. Case in point, look at all the young men and women that come from places like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador then bust their asses working their way up from doing prep work and dish pit duty to being executive chefs running commercial kitchens doing cuisine from the other side of the planet at the highest possible level. If you feel passionately enough about something to have the personal drive to dedicate yourself to becoming an expert at it and follow through with the hard work required you can do some pretty cool things in your work life, whatever field you choose. It won't be easy and there will be many times the thought of throwing your hands up and walking away at the very least crosses your mind, but the possibilities and opportunities are out there!

Listen latin, italian, whatever you focus on the right technique, right ingredients you can make excellent pizza. I happen to be Italian so I have a leg up, and lucky for me lived two blocks from DiFara's.

@@douglaspatrick868 bro i aint reading all that 💀

🤣

He's just confused as fuck because this "chain"/ private company is replicating an artisan pizza that has no right looking and tasting this great. Most companies like these are in it for the money, not the quality. Imagine going to Olive Garden and tasting incredible actual authentic pasta or lasagna. Your mind would go mad with confusion.

It would be if some old Italian guy with a sob story named Luigi made it. Dave's criteria is embarrassing.

@@XXX.0X snob scoring - best pizza? yes, thumbs up, corporate - thumbs down, Mexican chef -two thumbs down. Wrong, wrong, wrong! You should be ashamed of yourself!

I can usually guess pretty accurately before he gives his score. I went from 8.3-8.6 as a guess, just based on his reaction. I was shocked when he put it in the 7's.

​@@jashickey yeah I'm usually right there with you. But this one I was completely off. I thought 8.3 as well

I guessed 8.6 ....

Only in the US guy can build up 125 million net worth just by eating and filming Pizza's, Dave is A list celebrity already, everybody knows him lol

100% I guessed 8.7 I haven’t been this off in a long time.

Nah too dry for a high 8’s, everybody knows the rules

Exactly what I said!

8.1 for sure

8.3 for this one and throw out that high score you gave for that limp-dick pizza a couple of days ago!

Yes! Dave was thinking about how he could buy the operation and serve that pizza!

Me too. Hilarious

Ahahahahahahaha

He didn’t keep the 7.8 because they make Mexican food. He kept it because thems the rules.

I assume anything above 7 means I will definitely like it. Hell, probably 5 or higher.

Just so obv biased on what mood dave is in & esp how many reviews he's done that day, how many 8's he's given out in a pizza region.. hard to take em seriously these days given all the caveats. Especially when clearly a pizza of this caliber is stuck w/ an avg score bc he got his facts wrong going in & then it comes down to some killer pizza chef getting docked bc he also makes Mexican food

That 100-point scale is retarded. He just says a number. It has no meaning.

He made me want a piece he ate so much

You know the rules

I thought the same thing. Seems like the one bite review turned into a one pie review

Lol he should have tried the Mexican food 😂

Nailed it. I worked at a large well known country club (with over 1,000 members) as an assistant golf pro and I got to see what a head chef does, and surprisingly not as much cooking as I thought they would do....just everything else that makes it it great. This dude was an artist with a chainsaw and a block of ice (ice carving for events). He used to do it down in the garage where we parked the carts...it was amazing to watch.

@@CarlVandenberg completely lost me with the ice carving

​@@anthonylombardo1261 its a vandenberg analysis clearly

@@mikeboshko2623 now I just googled vandenberg analysis and I’m completely MIA. Why do none of you make sense?

Easily

One hundred percent

the scores have been off lately - dont know what happened, but he seems so lowball most of the reviews now

Looks more like an 8.6

The perspective and how small Dave looks is hilarious!!

😂

Yet he still gave it a mediocre score. So wrong.

@onehandwashestheother how dare a Mexican cook anything other than Mexican food! -Portnoy 2023

A corporate restaurant group, with one location.

@@58sportsuburban you're a special kind of special. 4:34 they mention the other concepts in the restaurant group. feel free to delete your moronic comment.

@The Yiz and the Yatz A lot of good pizza in NYC is cooked by Mexicans.

@@-EchoesIntoEternity- Bro take that down. You will here from Portnoys lawyers.

Well played, Sir.

Exactly

I fucking laughed out loud.

Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan

He couldn't admit it. It would destroy his soul. It he got that in New Haven it would be in the 9's.

​@@Dechral 100% an 8.5 - 8.9+ in New Haven. It would prove his point that New Haven is the pizza capital of the world, so he would 100% give a monster score there.

thats why he is having a crisis. hes still flabergasted

@@tylerberman8471 Yeah was just saying this in another comment. Honestly I think if he gets this pizza in New Haven from somebody with a cool story, it's a 9. That pizza is perfection.

@@1111111111202 while eating the entire pie 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

no doubt those were weak answers! i wanted him to go into the back and watch someone make that pizza

because he isn't a pizza chef.

@@RainerNeufeld You think it's frozen or what? The guy made the pizza what's so hard to believe? Just cause he's not italian doesn't mean he can't make a good pizza.

@@allroundlad In many of these Italian pizza places, they have Mexicans cooking anyway.

@@allroundladi think its because dave has seen pizza makers who take enormous pride into pizza that isnt as good as that. And then the chef makes this pizza then doesnt seem to be interested in taking credit for what dave believes is a very good pizza.

😂😂😂

Ya the Mexican food next store really fucked his little bitty brain up 😂😂😂😂

The backstory adds to the flavor, if some Sicilian guys mustache hair isn’t in the sauce it can’t cross the 8 threshold

@@gabrielc5938 i think that's silly but alright

He is spineless

it's almost like he says it off the top of his head on the street

You must be new here

@@WillZiacoma not new here, just not a fan boy and see thru his shitty scoring lol

Riverview was a travesty. He didn’t even want to eat it, but gave it an 8.2 simply because of politics (by politics I don’t mean Republican/Democrat, I mean because of who the owner is, etc.). That review is going to bug me for a while. It was one the floppiest, undercooked pizzas I’ve seen on here. Didn’t even deserve a 6.

@@turntableable lmfao not that deep but yea youre right 100%, overrated cuz the staff were oldies