Wednesday, April 10, 2019

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)


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