Attempt #95 - Hy-Vee Edgewood Road, Cedar Rapids

The Venue 

5050 Edgewood Rd NE, 

Cedar Rapids, IA 52411

(319) 378-0762

Venue Outside

Hy-vee serves many foods daily in its cafeteria style deli area near the front entrance of the store. Booth and table seating is available. One good thing is that on Tuesdays and Thursdays, there is $1 per slice for pizza.  

Menu

This prompted us to try it out and how does it compare against well-established pizza restaurants.

The Pizza

Chicago Style: No

Crust Thickness: Average

Menu:  Posted in the store

Menu

Participants: 5 (plus 3 children)

Pizza Ordered: 0, ordered slices

Sizes Offered/Ordered: Large (12”?)

Crusts Offered/Ordered: Traditional, Tuscano, Thin

Pieces Cut: Triangular

Pepperoni

Sausage - Tuscano

Bruschetta

Supreme

Meat Lovers

The Verdict

Sauce:  This was decent on some, but weird on others (I'm looking at you, Tuscano Sausage).  On some pizzas the sauce was dried out.

Cheese: The cheese was great on the pepperoni.  A lot of chew on.  

Crust: The crust was burnt on half of our slices. This was unacceptable. 

Toppings: Dried out due to the heat lamps. Even the pepperoni's seemed to have little flavor left.

Final Comments/Considerations: The outstanding freshness of all the pizza warrants t

If you are in a hurry and need a cheap $1 slice (Tuesday or Thursday), go for it.  Otherwise, avoid this and order Chinese from Hy-Vee.

Here are our ratings, where 1 = worst and 10 = best.

Overall 5.20

Cheese 4.80

Sauce 4.40

Topping 5.60

Crust 1.80

Venue 0.00

Favorite: Pepperoni

Burnt bottoms

Slices (Meat Lovers, Sausage, Bruschetta, Supreme)