Last night, I had pizza at the Mecca Supper Club in Edison Park, Chicago. The Mecca is a cozy bar/restaurant that is known for its karaoke nights as well as its loyal group of patrons. The Mecca has a number of home-cooked, hearty dinner entrees, but the pizza seems to be just as popular as the dinner meals. In fact…the pizza is definitely more popular during late-night, after-karaoke hours. Mecca pizza tastes like a traditional pizza, but they make a few variations that make it slightly different from your usual slice. There is more of an emphasis on spices, and you taste in the sausage and atop the layer of cheese. They also bring out Romano cheese (or possibly Parmesan), but not in the dusty crumbles we usually find in pizza shakers, but like the shredded mozzarella you find at the grocery store. You sprinkle some on top, and you notice the positive addition of flavor! The cheese and sauce taste pleasant, but it’s the fresh toppings and spices that bring out the flavor. The pizza

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The other night we were sponsoring an event in Miami, not too far from the Design District.  Part of our sponsorship consisted of buying the pizza.  Normally, the guys who run the event get the pizza delivered from Domino's and make their attendees suffer.  Since the Pizza Expert was buying the pizza I had to make sure to try a local place, instead of these national cardboard tasting pizza places. After searching, it seemed like Mario The Baker just opened one of their newest locations a couple of blocks away.  Since, by default they were the closest for delivery, I chose them.  The manager I spoke to on the phone, while placing the order was pretty nice.  He gave me a discount for ordering all the pies I did. The pizzas arrived almost exactly when the manager said they would, and I was pretty impressed since it was a decent sized order.  I was even more impressed to find that the manager threw in a few dozen garl

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Jim McDonnell, who is a marketing manager for some emerging division at Papa John's Pizza divulged to attendees at the OMMA Mobile Conference that their iPhone App was basically a failure.  He stated that he didn't "see anything that really delivers for us as well as mobile display advertising."  He further elaborated that due to the very little success their iPhone app had, that they will not look to expand to other mobile platforms. What made me laugh about the situation is that Papa John's does not even have an actual app for download in the iPhone app store, but rather just a mobile web site (or web app).  As Read Write Web says "Oh no! The iPhone doesn't deliver? Businesses take heed? Well, that's what it sounds like. Except there's just one small prob

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Although I am extremely loyal to Nino's Pizza in Boca Raton, we passed by the Nino's in Delray Beach and I wanted to try it since the change of teams.  I was delighted to see that my favorite waitress from the Boca location now works at their Delray Beach store.  (hi Ashley) It is fair to note that I was getting sick prior to heading to Nino's of Delray for pizza, and eating only seemed to escalate my sickness.  So my review may not be totally accurate, and I will give it another try anyways just to confirm.  I ordered one regular and one sicilian.  The sicilian tasted pretty good, just like the sicilian at the Nino's of Boca.  The crust was crisp, and the sauce tasted smooth and sweet.  The cheese even tasted pretty good.  The regular slice I wasn't too

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