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.
He hasn't said this is great pizza that many times on camera ever. That's better than giving the score. He even kept eating after he said he had already eaten 10 pizzas and if I remember correctly he once said, "If it's bad, maybe a slice, if it's really good, I can house it." He was definitely housing that pie.
I don't know why but I keep coming back to this one. Probably my favorite review - the pan back to the car at the end with Dave holding the pizza out and then the ending eating in the car. So unbelievably hilarious.
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.
@@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.
@@feiny5008he’s literally helping small business by being biased towards mom and pop type places. And guess what, good. The mom and pop shops are good for our country, a little bias never killed anyone.
@@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.
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.
At 8:05 when he is staring at the building and gives that kid confirmation it’s an 8.1 is hilarious. He’s staring like he needs to burn that place in his memory.
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.
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
"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!
After a year this is still my absolute favorite . Dave looking absolutely bewildered at how good it is for a chain , that's not a chain, realizing he underscores it, then proceeds to confuse everyone and himself 😂😂😂
I love when Dave goes back into Jacks how no one -- not even Dave -- can figure out if Dave is happy with the pizza or upset. The whole interaction is hilarious.
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
Barstool - Legend Edition. This is the best one of all. The discombobulated Dave. The endless Crunch. The general confusion. The revisit leaving us less answers than we started with. Amazing.
I get how everyone wants a re-score but this is quite possibly the best pizza review a restaurant could hope for. Your gonna have fans hitting up Jacks rating it themselves and seeing if it’s the real deal. Just going by Dave’s reaction, it most certainly is. If I were Jacks I’d be running this review as if it was a commercial lol
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.
I'm genuinely convinced this could be the best pizza he's ever had and he doesnt know how to accept it. The dude isnt a Mexican chef who cooks pizza. He's a Master Chef who can cook anything.
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..
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.
@@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.”
@@Ratchet299 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
The Prez dropped the ball at the goaline on this one. That the most underscored pizza in the history of reviews. That pizza was no less than the mid 8's
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🤷🏽♂️
Dude literally almost ate the whole pie and still maintained a 7.8 score for it. It clearly deserved to be in the 8's. Even said "It can almost be New Haven pizza". Even I, just looking at it thought it should be in the 8's. You can almost taste the appearance of it. 😂 Dave needs to rescore it. It deserves it and he knows it.
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.
Lol the fact that this video continued on and on with Dave being bewildered endlessly was absolutely hilarious. Gotta give it the score it deserves Dave, whether it doesn't make sense that they can split focus and still make pizza this good or not! The fact is they are!
Just thinking about this video earlier this evening and here it is, and I've always thought since I've first seen it love this video more than any of the other videos he's made
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.
@@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.
Thank you for including all the content you did so we understand the full experience. I’m going to run with 8.1 for this one which he mentioned afterwards.
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
@@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.
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.
I travel to Burlington for work all the time, I went there last night, almost ate the whole pie myself! His score was shockingly low, easily high 8’s if not low 9’s. Truly some of the best pizza I’ve had
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.
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.
Dave's "big brain" looked like it was going to start smoking. Evidently two restaurants sharing a kitchen is something that will make his head explode.
For real, that entire staff looked shellshocked, wondering what kind of drugged out lunatic just stumbled into the restaurant demanding to know how they can possibly make great pizza and Mexican food lol.
Dave was so taken back he couldn’t even properly score this pizza. By the way of his reaction it’s definitely an 8.7. 20 minutes later he’s still raving about the no flop. Rescore this pizza immediately
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
“One bite” hahahahaha!!! I love your flashback to quarantine and all your caged up rage 🤣😂. Also, it’s so interesting to me where in the box that you grab your first slice from.
That pizza looked amazing, almost makes me want to fly out to MA to try it. Also, Dave's confused face at multiple points in this episode is priceless 😂
One of my favorite reviews from Davey Pageviews. Seeing him be this bewildered over whether or not Jack's is a chain and why they're serving Mexican food is totally entertaining.
@@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.
At 5:58, i reaaally wanted Dave to just straight up house another slice right in front of the Chef. It's an incredible feeling to see someone genuinely appreciate what you made for them.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
I think this completely de-myths and debunks everything that Dave has been preaching for years. Huge moment for him to realize that pizza quality, crunch, crisp, and feel can be made under conditions that he previously thought we’re unattainable 😮🤯🔥
@@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.
@@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.
8.1 but scores it a 7.8 because he thought it was a chain..Everybody knows the rules. 😂 I never laughed so much on a pizza review. The confusion and disbelief is amazing. That pizza is definitely a 8.4-8.5 if it had a good back story
Yup if the grandma comes out crying with a story of how this place had been opened in 1964, and they’ve got a photo of Dave on the wall, saying they’ve been waiting years for him to review it, this is an 8.3+ easy
I have been following Dave's posts now for about 6 months. I cannot believe you did not score this pizza an 8.2 - 8.5. I would LOVE to travel around the US tasting all different types of pizza. Love your commentary on the posts. Keep it going!!!!
I think it makes sense. It’s really good but you can’t know if the integrity of the pizza is consistent when it comes to chains because there are different chefs.
If an old Italian man in downtown Brooklyn had been cooking that pizza since 1932 the score would be 9.2 everybody knows the rules.
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.
Dave has a whole restaurant crew more nervous than a health inspector showing up
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.
This place deserves a re-review. Everyone knows the rules.
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 hasn't said this is great pizza that many times on camera ever. That's better than giving the score. He even kept eating after he said he had already eaten 10 pizzas and if I remember correctly he once said, "If it's bad, maybe a slice, if it's really good, I can house it." He was definitely housing that pie.
Dave deducting points based on the amount of guido in the cook is the most Dave way of rating pizza
Haha, perfect explanation
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
thanks
Everyone knows the rules bro
i mean, hes a jew. are you really surpised
Dave literally had a EXISTENTIAL CRISIS with this pizza 😂
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.
Your talking shit before this even starts.
Common Dave…. Why even do the review?
I would too. If a Mexican chef who also makes Mexican food makes such an awesome pizza 😂😂
the shot of dave over the car roof with the zero flop pizza is hilarious
😂😂😂
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
I don't know why but I keep coming back to this one. Probably my favorite review - the pan back to the car at the end with Dave holding the pizza out and then the ending eating in the car. So unbelievably hilarious.
I’m watching it for the second time. Only one I’ve watched twice. I think Dave loves this pizza.
Dave is about to be a Jack's Coal Fired Pizza investor everyone knows the rules.
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 one for the history books. I’ve never wanted a second review on a pizza Dave’s done so bad.
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.
His reactions said everything we needed to hear. The pizza was definitely a 8.6+
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
“I’m leaving with more answers than I came in with questions 🤣 🤣 🤣
The shot of pres displaying the no-flop over the car is the funniest thing ever
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
The crunch at the end with Dave stuffing his face in the car has me rolling. He just can't stop eating that pizza
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 !
@@feiny5008he’s literally helping small business by being biased towards mom and pop type places. And guess what, good. The mom and pop shops are good for our country, a little bias never killed anyone.
The fact that it's still crispy after all that time in the box and him wandering around like a mouth breather says something lol.
Hilarious
One 9 minute review and Dave leaves with more questions than answers. Instant classic!
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.
At 8:05 when he is staring at the building and gives that kid confirmation it’s an 8.1 is hilarious. He’s staring like he needs to burn that place in his memory.
Dave walks in confused...and proceeds to confuse the crap out of every single person in the store.
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.
Dave has never messed up a score more than this one. Chain or not, a score is a score...
💯
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
Dave made everyone in that restaurant feel like they were doing something wrong lmao
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
After a year this is still my absolute favorite . Dave looking absolutely bewildered at how good it is for a chain , that's not a chain, realizing he underscores it, then proceeds to confuse everyone and himself 😂😂😂
That shot of him on the other side of the car holding up a pizza slice and saying "LOOK AT THIS" had me dying 😂
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 😂
I love when Dave goes back into Jacks how no one -- not even Dave -- can figure out if Dave is happy with the pizza or upset. The whole interaction is hilarious.
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.
I love when he’s walking away and turns and looks back at the building like it’s a u.f.o hovering in the parking lot 😂😂😂
Damn right.
8:05-8:10 is prrrrriceless
It was a balloon hovering lol
hahaaha 💀
😂😂😂😂
“I don’t trust this”
LMFAO when he walks back in and walks out more confused 😂
I've never seen Dave so perplexed by a pizza review in all my years of watching. That was fantastic!
Got to admire how seriously he takes this. Wandering around a parking lot, not able to let it lie.
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
Barstool - Legend Edition. This is the best one of all. The discombobulated Dave. The endless Crunch. The general confusion. The revisit leaving us less answers than we started with. Amazing.
The candid of Dave eating another slice in the car made me laugh out loud
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!!!!! 😂
I get how everyone wants a re-score but this is quite possibly the best pizza review a restaurant could hope for. Your gonna have fans hitting up Jacks rating it themselves and seeing if it’s the real deal. Just going by Dave’s reaction, it most certainly is.
If I were Jacks I’d be running this review as if it was a commercial lol
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😮😮😮
Dave 1000% lowballed this score. This deserves a high 8
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
I love rewatching this review.
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
I'm genuinely convinced this could be the best pizza he's ever had and he doesnt know how to accept it.
The dude isnt a Mexican chef who cooks pizza. He's a Master Chef who can cook anything.
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
From the reaction, the talk, the pizza itself. 8.8 was the real score everyone knows.
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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.
One of the few times I've seen Dave this shook, hilarious. If Dave went in with a clean slate, this was easily a 8.5+ pizza.
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.
@@Ratchet299 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.”
@@Ratchet299 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
The Prez dropped the ball at the goaline on this one. That the most underscored pizza in the history of reviews. That pizza was no less than the mid 8's
The totally and utter confusion is amazing. I was waiting for Dave to start looking in the cabinets for the hidden old Italian man in the kitchen.
LOL that transition of dave just holding the pizza slice while half way into the car towards the end just still in disbelief is priceless hahahah
Legend has it he's still saying it's the best chain pizza he's ever had
😂😂😂
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.
Ive watched all your stuff, this is the best so far, loved it
When someone who isnt Italian cooks a 9+ pizza Daves mind explodes everybody knows the rules
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🤷🏽♂️
I’ve never seen someone so shook over pizza😂 the way he was walking away just gazing at the restaurant in disbelief😂
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,
This is the most unintentionally funny review ever. Never seen someone so enamored by how a pizza is so good 😂
Daves incredulous line of questioning got me geekin
You can tell it's underrated... because of how much Dave ate... I've seen 8.4s where he doesn't eat that much.
Dude literally almost ate the whole pie and still maintained a 7.8 score for it. It clearly deserved to be in the 8's. Even said "It can almost be New Haven pizza". Even I, just looking at it thought it should be in the 8's. You can almost taste the appearance of it. 😂 Dave needs to rescore it. It deserves it and he knows it.
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.
Lol the fact that this video continued on and on with Dave being bewildered endlessly was absolutely hilarious. Gotta give it the score it deserves Dave, whether it doesn't make sense that they can split focus and still make pizza this good or not! The fact is they are!
He didn’t keep the 7.8 because they make Mexican food. He kept it because thems the rules.
Just thinking about this video earlier this evening and here it is, and I've always thought since I've first seen it love this video more than any of the other videos he's made
Legend has it Dave is still outside in the parking lot of Jack's thinking about what went wrong...
😂😂😂
Dave behind the car still amazed with the 0 flop was hilarious. He can't get over the pizza.
😂
Yet he still gave it a mediocre score. So wrong.
Dave getting psyched out by a new restaurant paradigm. That pizza was easily 8.2.
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
Love his last looks at the establishment, it's like he was looking at a Haunted mansion or something so epic that he is in disbelief! 😂😂😂😂
The fact that dave takes this as the most serious thing he could be doing is amazing
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
Dave did not want to leave he was looking back at the restaurant like it did something to him 😂😂😂
Yes! Dave was thinking about how he could buy the operation and serve that pizza!
Me too. Hilarious
Ahahahahahahaha
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I never seen dave eat so much of a pie in a review. 😆 🤣 😂
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
Surprised it wasn’t in the 8’s.
It looked like the ideal pizza Dave enjoys.
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 ....
Thank you for including all the content you did so we understand the full experience. I’m going to run with 8.1 for this one which he mentioned afterwards.
The fact that he can cook that good of pizza and Mexican cuisine in the same kitchen should be an automatic point boost, not a deduction
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.
Dave not understanding what a head Chef does at a restaurant is golden
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?
I travel to Burlington for work all the time, I went there last night, almost ate the whole pie myself! His score was shockingly low, easily high 8’s if not low 9’s. Truly some of the best pizza I’ve had
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!
Have you had Joanie's in Chelmsford? Can you compare?
We all love a good "Mom & Pop," but a score should not be impacted by whether or not it's associated with _a chain._
A chain opens it up for more humans to enjoy. It’s not evil.
Dave can’t wrap his head around the fact the chef can make pizza and cook Mexican cuisine 😂😂😭😭…it’s not that complicated
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 💀
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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.
Legendary review. They may have gotten a 7.8, technically speaking, but they also got an 8.8 promo
At 8:08 when Dave goes “I mean look at this” and Austin veers over the top of the car to Dave holding the slice with absolutely ZERO flop. 😂
The perspective and how small Dave looks is hilarious!!
Paul Burts Mall Cop was also filmed at Burlington Mall in Burlington MA.
Dave's "big brain" looked like it was going to start smoking. Evidently two restaurants sharing a kitchen is something that will make his head explode.
For real, that entire staff looked shellshocked, wondering what kind of drugged out lunatic just stumbled into the restaurant demanding to know how they can possibly make great pizza and Mexican food lol.
Right. This shows he factors in a lot of stuff that doesn't matter instead of just rating the pizza itself.
Dave was so taken back he couldn’t even properly score this pizza. By the way of his reaction it’s definitely an 8.7. 20 minutes later he’s still raving about the no flop. Rescore this pizza immediately
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
One interrogation of the staff, everyone knows Dave's scoring system is complete bonkers.
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.
“One bite” hahahahaha!!! I love your flashback to quarantine and all your caged up rage 🤣😂. Also, it’s so interesting to me where in the box that you grab your first slice from.
That's an 8.6 pie ALL DAY. Dave fumbled
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!
Dave is in such a state of shock, he is still clutching this dudes business card at the end.
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.
Dave, I think this deserves a re-review. You were eating it in the car! It looks great!
That pizza looked amazing, almost makes me want to fly out to MA to try it. Also, Dave's confused face at multiple points in this episode is priceless 😂
One of my favorite reviews from Davey Pageviews. Seeing him be this bewildered over whether or not Jack's is a chain and why they're serving Mexican food is totally entertaining.
one bite, Dave is baffled by the concept of a corporate restaurant group
@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.
At 5:58, i reaaally wanted Dave to just straight up house another slice right in front of the Chef. It's an incredible feeling to see someone genuinely appreciate what you made for them.
I have never seen him continue eating the same pizza after a review for this long the ending says it all
Dave: "Really Austin, you bring me to a chain pizza place?"
Also Dave: "I'm really glad we came Austin."
😂😂😂
Dave, the type of guy to leave with more answers than questions. everyone knows the rules
the fact that he gave the Riverview Restaurant an 8.2 and this a 7.8 makes me think all his scores are just a spur of the moment score 🤣
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
I was expecting a 8.3 lmao when he said 7.8 I almost fell off my chair 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I truly cannot comprehend how dave is this confused. I've never seen someone be more confused by such a simple notion. I love it.
I know, it's not a chain. Why is he acting so weird and making such a big deal about it.
One Burnt mouth on pizza, everyone knows he calls Morgan and Morgan.
Well played, Sir.
Exactly
I fucking laughed out loud.
Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan and Morgan
i love how suspicious Dave was of the pizza chef
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.
lol the shot where he is behind the car with the slice in the air lol
I’ve watched a lot of these reviews, and this is near the top of my favorites lol. The utter confusion and fascination from Dave is amazing haha!
Jack's Coal Fired Pizza is about to be in every Bar Stool Sportsbook location! That crunch!!
I think this completely de-myths and debunks everything that Dave has been preaching for years. Huge moment for him to realize that pizza quality, crunch, crisp, and feel can be made under conditions that he previously
thought we’re unattainable 😮🤯🔥
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 🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣🤣
Ironically this is one of the best reviews he could have given! If i was in the area id be there no questions asked. Looks like an incredible pizza
8.1 but scores it a 7.8 because he thought it was a chain..Everybody knows the rules. 😂 I never laughed so much on a pizza review. The confusion and disbelief is amazing. That pizza is definitely a 8.4-8.5 if it had a good back story
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
This is one of the funniest reviews ever. Dave is completely mystified lmao
This might be the seminal review of this entire channel. You can see how a pizza broke Dave down in real time.
Dave can be very funny sometimes. This is a great review
The loud crunch at the end + the laugh = 100% Definitely an 8+
7.8? Dave you’re slacking on the scores. That pizza looks like a 8.1
This is so funny, I commented on another person's comment "8.1"
The crowd knows more than steve, everybody knows the rules
Don’t matter it’s not old fella doing it
You cant taste the looks
Yup if the grandma comes out crying with a story of how this place had been opened in 1964, and they’ve got a photo of Dave on the wall, saying they’ve been waiting years for him to review it, this is an 8.3+ easy
all you have to do is order your pizza well done to get an under carriage like that at most places
This one deserves a do over. Looks amazing. I had it in mid 8s on looks alone
I watch all your vids bro… I have never watched you eat that many slices! And that pie looks outstanding😋. Cheers to the chef
Dave definitely gave those guys a roller coaster of emotions when he was asking them questions
Ya wtf
Yeah id have been so uncomfortable
I have been following Dave's posts now for about 6 months. I cannot believe you did not score this pizza an 8.2 - 8.5. I would LOVE to travel around the US tasting all different types of pizza. Love your commentary on the posts. Keep it going!!!!
Never judge a pizza by who made it
unless it's Papi from Seinfeld...
I think it makes sense. It’s really good but you can’t know if the integrity of the pizza is consistent when it comes to chains because there are different chefs.
@@bluerum896integrity of the pizza? What are you talking about. If it's good pizza it's good pizza
@@imkool51391you ever go to a mcdonalds and its trash, but go to another location and it's always good? Its all about the chefs my dude.
@@johnkoho1245hes reviewing the pie that hes eating not throwing out a guess on how bad it could be if another chef cooked it
The parallel shot of the crust to the minivan roof is my favorite part.