We decided to order two larges for the four of us, one sausage (my standard test for pizza places) and one Hawaiian. They did have a deal with two two-topping large pizza's and an order of cheese sticks for $25 plus tax. The first impression over the phone of the pizza place is not a good one, including a rather stupid opening call menu, frankly I don't know why they don't just bring the customer straight to the staff, but they insist on having their phone menu... whatever. After that there is the price, but I'll talk about that later... Then they quoted 40 minutes for delivery for the two large pizza's. Now I get it for delivery most of the time taking a bit longer than normal, but we live literally 5 blocks away from this restaurant, and while it arrived a bit earlier than 40 minutes, it was a bit odd for it to supposedly take 40 minutes on a sunday... long story short, not a good start so far. But then we gotta move on to the pizza....
The Pizza: Unfortunately, again I do not have any images of the pizza, I suppose it looks pretty close to the pictures on the website... www.toppers.com
The Good: I suppose the easy to see good is relatively quick delivery, though they quoted longer, and large options for pizza, they have a small, a standard 14" large and then an 18" party size. The tomato sauce they use was rather good, well seasoned with a fresh taste. The crust and dough also were well raised and fluffy if that is what you like, personally I'm not crazy for huge fluffy crusts.
The Bad: Well this list is significantly longer than the one above, the cheese was rather tasteless, as was the crust for the most part other than a bit of flour. The sausage was seasoned pretty well, however the meat quality itself was rather poor, the only taste in the sausage was that of the seasoning and the texture was pretty bland overall. The pizza also started out pretty oily, even looking at the pictures on the website you can see quite a bit of glisten on the pizza, for most foods sure you want it to glisten when you are taking pictures but flaunting that your pizza is oily? Have to disagree with that one. Also, as said above I'm not crazy for a very fluffy "thick" thin-crust, if you like that, it is VERY fluffy and I can see how some people would like that but it definitely isn't my cup of tea, I will say the dough/crust did give a very fresh feel which I give them credit for.
While Toppers isn't trying to be the best pizza in the world, I could respect them trying to be a good "fast food" pizza place, but their normal prices are absolutely ridiculous. We were quoted $16 and change for a large one-topping pizza. I'm sorry but for the quality of pizza you get that is ridiculous. In fact, if it wasn't for their two pizza + cheese bread deal we would have said adios and hung up the phone. I am all for paying good money for pizza, but for a pizza that reminds me of Papa John's or Domino's, 16-17 for a single topping pizza is ridiculous.
I was considering giving Toppers a 3, but because of the price point and the quality of food they deliver I have to downgrade them to a 2/10.
2/10
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