Thursday, March 23, 2023

A cheese slice is 99 cents again at 99 Cent Pizza on 14th Street

The price for a cheese slice is back to 99 cents now at 99 Cent Pizza, 246 E. 14th St. between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. 

Workers switched the sign from $1.50 to 99 cents back on Monday. 

Like many other bargain joints around the city, management — citing an increase in costs on everything from flour to napkins — increased the price by 51 cents in late 2021/early 2022

This move comes days after the 2 Bros. outpost on St. Mark's Place raised the price of their cheese slice from $1 to $1.50... and before the new 99-cent joint opens on 14th Street just east of First Avenue (Updated: Certified open today, per Edmund John Dunn.)

Do we hear 98 cents from any of the other discount slicerias? 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let the Pizza Wars begin -

Anonymous said...

If the sign says 99¢, seems to me you're legally required to charge that price—until you change the sign, maybe change the corporate name, too.

Anonymous said...

My "I survived the Slice Wars of '23" t-shirts are already in production. No Trademark, just calling first dibs.

Anonymous said...

As to "If the sign says 99¢, seems to me you're legally required to charge that price—until you change the sign, maybe change the corporate name, too":
That's a great point and is probably true, unless the establishment very clearly advertises/announces the actual slice price, in a way that makes clear the "99¢" name is only a name.
There is a bank called "St. Luke Penny Savings Bank" and another bank called "Dollar Bank" that do transactions in denominations other than one cent and one dollar.
In the 70s there was a chain of clothing stores in the Chicago area called "Just Pants"; their advertising jingle (which used to drive me crazy) sang: "Just Pants...the place for tops."

Anonymous said...

Folks don’t seem to wonder if employees are getting screwed when prices are so low...