Monday: That's it. Boston's Pizza Manoa is no longer making good pizza.

I've given them three weeks of chances, but they are simply not making pizza that is satisfying.  The first problem:  they have far too many people wandering around, and they spend too much time associating with people from the other two restaurants in the same building and managed by the same people.  It's a pizza place.  You need two people.  One person to take orders and pull par-cooked slices from the display and handle the money.  One person to make pizzas and to manage the oven.  There were five people hanging around today.  This is a distraction.

The second problem is that they are seriously overcooking the pizza.  Let's look at today's slices:

Ok, but:

This is burnt.

The pizzas should come out (whole) just fully cooked.  The entire display was filled with obviously overcooked pizza.  It's easy to identify:  the crusts are dark brown, and the cheese has separated.  This is the best example I could find with a google search, but this is the same problem:  the cheese is cooked too long, and the oil is driven out.  This causes oil pools on the pizza, and the cheese isn't a gooey, yummy blanket anymore.

If everything in the display is already overcooked, then putting it back in for the warm up pass just makes it all worse.  If all the pizzas are already broken, adding more heat isn't going to fix them.  The spinach/garlic today was the best option, and it was burnt, and the crust had had all of its moisture driven out.  Well, except for that green spot on the undershot, where inconsistent thickness caused that place to be soggy.

They do have some interesting new flavors (pulled pork sounds like it could be interesting), but if a simple pepperoni and mushroom is too difficult, why would I think those are done any better?  So I think that's it.  After like five years of getting Monday pizza for lunch, I think I'm done.  It's no longer good pizza.

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