MOD Pizza

MOD Pizza in Vallejo, March 1, 2018. 

Great customer service and great pizza at a really cheap price!

I'm on a tight budget, so it's nice that we can get lunch for half the price as normal.

Pizza at MOD Pizza in Napa, California.


I feel like we're living in some sort of un-dreamed of future.  More and more restaurants of every type are using local, seasonal ingredients. Thirty years ago it was practically unheard-of to find Thai, Peruvian, Burmese, Interior Mexican, Vietnamese, & Lao restaurants, and most ethnic restaurants you could find were toned down. I certainly never would have guessed that *regional* cuisines would become such a huge thing all over the United States. And now, there's new kinds of traditional American cuisine popping up, McDonalds, Burger Kings, Pizza Huts, and Taco Bells are closing stores in many cities, and they're being gradually replaced my much better hamburger, pizza and mexican chains.

And there's some chains that completely blow my mind. I've already raved in previous blog posts about FarmBurger and SmashBurger. Now it's time to sing the praises of MOD Pizza, the fastest-growing restaurant chain in America for many good reasons. First, despite the fact that Old School Ska from the 1960s was part of music mix when we visited, MOD stands for Made On Demand. I noticed they had all their pizza doughs all set up and ready, over on the side.

Notice that the worker is rolling this tube with spikes on each pizza. This way, once your pizza is loaded up with the ingredients you choose, it'll cook quicker and more evenly in the pizza oven.

See, there's the pizza oven in the back. Your pizza will be done quickly. We had roughly 8 people ahead of us, but we still got our pizza in less than 10 minutes. Probably would have been more like 3-4 minutes if nobody was in line ahead of us. This is one thing about these New Breed restaurants. They've really done their research in terms of Food Science. MOD Pizza is so organized these guys are unfazed by any sort of rush.


So anyhow, the whole set-up is simple. Three sizes/types of dough, each pizza priced according to the size of the dough, and you can load up your pizza with whatever ingredients you want. Or of course they have specialty pizzas. We got one with pesto, garlic rub, roasted mushrooms, mild Italian sausage, basil, roasted garlic, artichokes, red bell peppers, ricotta, mozzarella & parmesan cheese. Same price, no matter how much stuff you order.

They also have salads, shakes, beer and wine. Also fountain drinks and teas.

We don't eat pizza very often, but this will definitely be one of the places we'll be returning to in the  future. The sausage is exceptionally good, definitely minimally processed. There's nothing about this place that reminds me of Papa Johns, Domino's or Pizza Hut. That's an $11 pizza, by the way. Pretty sure that's the biggest/most expensive one on the menu.

Once again, here's the closeup.


These other great chains we like also do exceptionally good shakes, so we decided to get one to share.

See how thick it is? Great shake, but not something I'd normally get.

Turns out MOD Pizza's got an interesting back story, giving opportunities for people who need a Second Chance. Robin found a couple of great links which I'll share here. I'm sure there will soon be one near you.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_Pizza

https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2018/02/05/how-mod-pizza-americas-fastest-growing-restaurant-puts-people-first-including-felons-ex-addicts/#6041d90d6dda