A single slice at Benny Fiero’s requires two paper plates to hold it. You can buy entire pies and the box is gigantic

Oooh I’ll have to try that! I love a big slice. There was this pizza joint I used to go to when I lived in Arizona called “big ass pizza” lol they had big ass slices.

The economy is fine, we may not even see a decrease in GDP in 2023.

the issue is the wealth is moving up the ladder which leads to businesses targeted at the middle class struggling.

Nobody is going out to get overpriced pizza, they’re either going out for higher quality more expensive food or staying in.

Regardless, I don’t think the economy was the issue here, this place just sucked.

We have more pizza joints per person than any other place on earth, it feels like.

You either gotta be cheap or be real good, or it's gonna hurt. It's hard to start a new spot.

In college, I called this the "$10 pizza theory." (Adjust as necessary for inflation.)

You should never pay $10 for a pizza. If you're buying pizza, you either want cheap, greasy crap, or you want something really good. $10 never buys you a pie that's good enough to justify buying something that costs more than a Little Caesar's Hot-N-Ready.

There is a Bunny Cafe open from 1 pm to 3:15 pm every third Thursday. They also don't have cafe items or bunnies.

Yeah I’ll try the other stuff next time! The lamb sounded good. What would you suggest?

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SO GOOD!

>Butterwood Bake Consortium

Ohhhh my god. Their baked goods are fantastic in every way. Creative, interesting, delicious, beautifully presented, everything.

My partner and I stumbled in by pure happenstance late-ish one night and were blown away by how good everything was. We ordered a lot more than we were planning to when we walked in because neither one of us could decide on just one thing! We brought a bunch home with us and enjoyed it over the next...well, TBH by the same time the next night we had eaten everything, LOL.

>But I do fucking try to make the work lives of those around me better

How do you decide what "better" looks like to your employees, or whoever you mean by "those around [you]"? This is a serious question. Do you assume that what you think is better is, objectively, better, and then institute changes based solely on your own view of things? Or do you ask people what they need and have a conversation about it, with the goal of reaching an agreement about what changes would strike a better balance between what you need and what they need?

Unfortunately, this isn't really relevant when looking at historic consumer practices...and it usually down turns super fast when the major crime issues are shooting related.

People are a little more tolerant of smash and grab stuff, but outright gun fights will reflect on traffic regardless of when they're generally concentrated.

I am personally a big fan of Benny's, and with it being directly across the street and the fact that Doughbar seemed constantly packed, I never had any desire to go check it out. Pizza in this city seems like a hard market to break into. Lot of good pizza here already.

Can't recall the number of slices, but it was large enough for two people.

Honestly, that place is huge, and you are going to have issues filing it up, even if you have a great concept. Also, being able to see from the street how empty it usually was probably didn't help either.

Like others mentioned, food was ok, but hardly something to cry home about. Oh well.

south side day and night are two different thungs, however on a friday or saturday by 9 pm i'd be looking to leave.

Yeah. I agree 100%. I thought it was a few more blocks east like by the Birmingham Bridge

Spirit has a pretty nice music venue and caters well to the aged-out hipster demographic as well as their zoomer replacements.

Yeah if I’m spending money on pizza, I want it to be quality. I love Benny’s. I remember the first time I walked in with a friend who hadn’t told me how large the slices are, and I tried ordering two. The staff member looked at me and was like “…are you sure?”

And thank you! It’s my favorite starter.

SS Works =/= SS Flats (effectively)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/09/14/third-places-as-community-builders/

 
America's traditional Third Places have been completely eradicated in favor of pay-to-access places. That's incredibly bad for American society and fosters alienation.

Not surprised. There was hardly ever anyone it there. It was kind of a weird vibe.

Maybe I was exaggerating. I just looked up the menu and the pizza we got was $21, maybe we got an extra topping or something. But it was decently sized, 8 slices. I would advise anyone to walk across the street and get a single slice at Benny’s for $5-7.

P.s. love the name piplup is a great little pokemon

Kevin Sousa run?

$24?? How many slices was the pie?