From Roger’s notebook

Pizza / Italian

Nothing Roger would return for

Latest recorded visit2009-09-11
“It was the same spaghetti plate that I rejected!”
Roger, Google Maps review (2009-09-11)

Pizza · Italian

Sam's 5th Ave Pizza

Gaslamp, San DiegoNot recommended

A Gaslamp pizza spot where Roger's sausage lasagna order was given to another diner, then re-served to him as the same rejected spaghetti plate after a promised remake — followed by a refund fight.

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A Gaslamp pizza spot where Roger's sausage lasagna order was given to another diner, then re-served to him as the same rejected spaghetti plate after a promised remake — followed by a refund fight.

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    • Nothing Roger would return for

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    2009-09-11day precision · source explicit
    ★☆☆☆☆
    “It was the same spaghetti plate that I rejected!”

    Ordered a sausage lasagna; the order was given to another diner by mistake and served as spaghetti instead, then supposedly remade but actually just re-boxed as the same rejected plate. The group returned to demand and receive a refund.

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