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> The owners and staff of Lupa pizza in Norwich are so revolted by the Hawaiian that they have reluctantly added the topping to their delivery menu but only wit

by yladiz 2y ago

> The owners and staff of Lupa pizza in Norwich are so revolted by the Hawaiian that they have reluctantly added the topping to their delivery menu but only with the eye-watering price tag. Why not just... not offer it on the menu? It'll be easier than having to explain every at every single occasion about it.

didgeoridoo 2y ago
That’s a terrible way to get newspaper articles written about you.
amenhotep 2y ago
1) yes it's a naked publicity stunt 2) even if it's not on the menu, people will ask about it. Some proportion of those people will be annoying to deal with if they hear that the restaurant refuses to make it. The restaurant's life may be made simpler by openly offering a fuck-off price. Or it might not, hard to say, nobody except themselves knows how much grief they get from customers.
- yladiz 2y ago
  Right. My point is that the occasional annoying person asking about it will be outweighed by everyone bringing it up now, at least in the short term, and it's entirely possible that a customer will get really offended by being told an extremely high price and be even more annoying than anyone previously, so it feels like a strange move as a business owner (unless they actually don't hate pineapple on pizza, which is also possible).
  - poincaredisk 2y ago
    Well a lot of people have heard about this restaurant now. And "pineapple pizza bad" is a meme that is popular enough, that a lot of people on the anti-pineapple side may decide to visit it at a joke. Hell, maybe some people will go there to other the £100 pizza for fake internet points of social media. In both cases, now that the publicity stunt worked, I don't see how it can be bad for them.
masfoobar 2y ago
There would have been no article about this pizza place. It's free advertisement -- and interested me looking into it. Looks like nice pizza! Would be interested trying them if I am ever in Norwich area. Nice tactic, if you ask me!
aaron695 2y ago
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by yladiz 2y ago

didgeoridoo 2y ago

That’s a terrible way to get newspaper articles written about you.

amenhotep 2y ago

1) yes it's a naked publicity stunt 2) even if it's not on the menu, people will ask about it. Some proportion of those people will be annoying to deal with if they hear that the restaurant refuses to make it. The restaurant's life may be made simpler by openly offering a fuck-off price. Or it might not, hard to say, nobody except themselves knows how much grief they get from customers.

yladiz 2y ago
Right. My point is that the occasional annoying person asking about it will be outweighed by everyone bringing it up now, at least in the short term, and it's entirely possible that a customer will get really offended by being told an extremely high price and be even more annoying than anyone previously, so it feels like a strange move as a business owner (unless they actually don't hate pineapple on pizza, which is also possible).
- poincaredisk 2y ago
  Well a lot of people have heard about this restaurant now. And "pineapple pizza bad" is a meme that is popular enough, that a lot of people on the anti-pineapple side may decide to visit it at a joke. Hell, maybe some people will go there to other the £100 pizza for fake internet points of social media. In both cases, now that the publicity stunt worked, I don't see how it can be bad for them.

masfoobar 2y ago

There would have been no article about this pizza place. It's free advertisement -- and interested me looking into it. Looks like nice pizza! Would be interested trying them if I am ever in Norwich area. Nice tactic, if you ask me!

aaron695 2y ago

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