Comments on: Pie Hole Closes Its Doors, Another Pizzeria Abruptly Vanishes

By: Marc Lawrence

Marc Lawrence — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:49:00 +0000

Giordano’s? How boring. Thanks for the info.

By: Pauline Mulkerrins

Pauline Mulkerrins — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:16:00 +0000

Giordano’s is moving into the Ann Sathers space.

By: mimi h

mimi h — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 03:21:00 +0000

I thought Giordano’s was coming to the Ann Sathers space. I guess not. Good riddens to Homemade Pizza Co; evidently they committed wage theft long ago .

By: Negative Nellie

Negative Nellie — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:12:07 +0000

This was inevitable. I knew from personal experience at the Boystown location that you had to know someone that knew someone that worked there to actually get served. I never even considered this location. I can make my own instant pizza. Hopefully a lesson has been learned.

By: Stooch

Stooch — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:48:12 +0000

I can’t say that I’m surprised in the least.

The pizza was good, but it was insanely expensive (for a large pizza for $36 once), and there was no management. I lived across the street and would go over there often, and there was often only one person working there.

Other experiences include:
-never getting a phone order correct
-having managers and employees cursing and storming out
-placing an order, then have the person say they forgot what you said and asking me to repeating it
-closure due to them forgetting to transfer the gas
-closure for the AC and ovens not working (repeatedly)
-none of my orders were ever on time (on 2 occasions I went over to pick it up, and they hadn’t started)
-people not picking up the phone after 3 or 4 calls (during normal hours)
-the phone number not working
-untrained and aloof employees

They just didn’t know what they were doing, obviously, and in the end it was a failure. Sad but true.

By: Daniel Zagotta

Daniel Zagotta — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:34:02 +0000

Agreed that there was internal issues. But the license was revoked because of back sales taxes being owed. They were most likely not pulling in enough money. Last year the home delivery/take-out pizza business fell significantly according to the Tribune and this has caused larger chains like Sbarro to file for bankruptcy and smaller ones to close like Homemade and Pie Hole. In a saturated market usually the weaker ones fall off and the stronger one survive like Pizzeria Aroma who has great pizza and good marketing. I am no economist, but it seems to make sense.

By: Clarence

Clarence — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:24:54 +0000

Increased competition doesn’t have anything to do with a business license being revoked. Sounds like there were some internal issues going on.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 01:21:38 +0000

Every time I went to the Boystown location or the Andersonville location, the service was unbelievably slow. Calling ahead wasn’t much better, since I showed up once and the person who took my order had completely forgotten to prepare my slices. On the plus side, the pizza was really good. It’s a shame they couldn’t make it work.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:21:22 +0000

Pizza Hut & PAPA Johns should not be considerd real pizza t all!

By: Van

Van — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:52:12 +0000

Really, who in their right mind would eat at Papa John’s OR Pizza Hut?!? I just don’t get it.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:47:25 +0000

Pie Hole pizza was pretty good, but extremely expensive.

I can understand why the Clark location was closing. I went there with a friend on a friday evening, and we were the only two customers there! The place was dead! I suppose that the location at 5001 N Clark is not that great too. It is way south of most of the good parts of Andersonville.