🍔 PIZZA THIS

Restaurant Locations

Pizza This operates 3 locations in Vice City's urban core, filling the Italian-American fast casual niche. The main pizzeria occupies a corner storefront on Ocean Beach with a glass counter displaying pizza by the slice, checkered tablecloth dining, and a wood-fired oven visible behind the counter. A second location operates in the Ambrosia Mall food court (counter service only), and a third in Downtown Vice City near the courthouse as a classic lunch rush spot.

The Ocean Beach location is the only one with full sit-down dining — 8 tables with red checkered cloths, a wall-mounted TV playing sports, and a jukebox that lets players spend $1 to select tracks from Flash FM and Emotion 98.3. A delivery scooter parked outside references the restaurant's NPC delivery service (players can't operate it, but delivery drivers are visible around the city carrying Pizza This boxes — a fun environmental detail).

Menu Items & Prices

Pizza This sells by the slice and by the whole pie. Individual slices ($4 for cheese, $5 for pepperoni, $6 for the "Supreme Vice" loaded with everything) are the default order. Whole pies ($14 cheese, $18 pepperoni, $22 Supreme Vice) serve as multi-meal items — buying a whole pie adds 4 meal portions to your inventory that can be consumed later, making it the most storage-efficient food purchase in the game.

Non-pizza items include garlic knots ($3), meatball sub ($7), chicken parm hero ($8), and Italian ices in 4 flavors ($2.50 each — lemon, cherry, blue raspberry, and mango). A calzone ($9) is the premium single-serving item with the highest individual health restoration. The menu board features a hand-drawn caricature of a chef tossing dough with the slogan "You pizza what you eat" — exactly the caliber of pizza pun expected from a GTA restaurant.

Health & Stat Effects

Pizza slices restore 20-30% health depending on topping complexity: cheese gives 20%, pepperoni 25%, Supreme Vice 30%. The calzone is the top performer at 35% health restoration — tied with Cluckin' Bell's Cluckwork Orange for the highest single-item restore among casual restaurants. Whole pie portions restore the same as individual slices but can be consumed from inventory without visiting the restaurant, providing unmatched convenience.

Pizza This is the most weight-neutral fast food option. While Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell contribute heavily to the weight system, Pizza This adds weight at roughly half the rate — the thinner food items process differently in the game's nutrition model. Players who care about maintaining physique but still want fast food convenience gravitate toward Pizza This as the compromise option.

Easter Eggs & References

The Pizza This phone number (displayed on the delivery boxes and storefront signage) is callable in-game. Dialing it triggers a voice menu where an exasperated NPC takes a fake delivery order before eventually hanging up when you can't provide an in-game address. The bit runs differently each time with 6 recorded scenarios, including one where the pizza guy recognizes your voice and refuses service because of a previous unpaid order.

A movie prop collectible — a fake pizza box from an in-universe action movie — is hidden on the roof of the Ocean Beach location, accessible by climbing the adjacent building's fire escape. The pizza oven at the Ocean Beach location runs on a visible timer — if you watch long enough, the NPC chef pulls out a pizza, cuts it, and places it in the display case, cycling through the full menu rotation. It's the most detailed food preparation animation in the game.

Atmosphere & Design

Pizza This aims for authentic New York-style pizzeria ambiance transplanted to Vice City — the checkered tablecloths, the counter guy who calls everyone "boss," the slightly too-loud TV showing whatever sport is in season. The Ocean Beach location smells like oregano and hot cheese (conveyed through NPC comments: "Smells amazing in here" from entering customers). The lunch rush between 12-1 PM in-game time fills every table and creates a queue at the counter.

The walls display signed photos of fictional celebrities, a mounted newspaper review praising "the best slice south of Liberty City," and a hand-drawn map showing the owner's claimed Sicilian heritage with dubious geographic accuracy. The NPC owner — visible behind the counter during business hours — has a thick stereotypical accent and calls regular customers by name after multiple visits, creating a sense of community attachment that other fast food chains deliberately lack.

Comparison to Other Restaurants

Pizza This occupies the "casual dining" tier between fast food (Burger Shot, Cluckin' Bell, Taco Bomb) and upscale restaurants (Vice City Steakhouse, Cuban Cafe). Prices are moderate ($4-$22), and the social prestige is neutral — eating here doesn't impress or embarrass anyone. The whole pie inventory system gives Pizza This a unique practical advantage: buying food in advance for later consumption.

The calzone's 35% health restoration at $9 is competitive with the Cluckwork Orange but without the limited-time availability constraint. However, Pizza This lacks any buff effects (no sprint boost, no damage resistance), making it the "reliable but unremarkable" dining option. For players who want consistent, affordable health restoration without the weight penalties of fried food, Pizza This is the optimal choice.

Community Guide

The whole pie inventory mechanic made Pizza This the community's unofficial "pre-mission food" — buying a Supreme Vice pie before a difficult mission means 4 emergency health restores without needing to find a restaurant mid-mission. Competitive players keep a perpetual pizza inventory stocked, treating it as essential equipment alongside body armor and trauma kits.

Pizza This delivery scooters became an unlikely vehicle meta: the NPC delivery drivers weave aggressively through traffic, and following one during a chase mission can create an unintentional escort through congested areas. The community discovered this emergent navigation trick and documented the most useful delivery routes across the map, turning a background environmental detail into a practical gameplay advantage.

History in the GTA Series

Pizza has been a GTA staple since Well Stacked Pizza Co. in GTA San Andreas, where CJ could eat pizza to restore health at locations across San Andreas. The chain was relatively unremarkable — a generic pizza shop without the comedic personality of Burger Shot or Cluckin' Bell. GTA IV didn't feature a dedicated pizza restaurant, though pizza boxes appeared as environmental props throughout Liberty City's Italian neighborhoods.

GTA V included pizza delivery as a minor activity but no dedicated pizza restaurant chain. GTA Online's various updates added pizza-themed clothing items and props without a functional pizzeria. The absence of a proper pizza restaurant became a running community request, making Pizza This's GTA 6 debut a directly player-requested addition to the restaurant lineup.

Pizza This fills the gap that Well Stacked Pizza left, updating the concept with modern mechanics: by-the-slice pricing, whole pie inventory storage, the detailed wood-fired oven animation, and the delivery driver environmental detail. The name change from "Well Stacked" to "Pizza This" reflects GTA's evolving humor — less crude double entendre, more deadpan absurdity.

The decision to make Pizza This a smaller chain (3 locations vs. Burger Shot's 6) reflects Vice City's cultural landscape — the city's Latin American and Caribbean food culture means pizza isn't the dominant fast food the way it might be in Liberty City. Pizza This serves Vice City's tourist and transplant population, which is why all three locations are in the most urban, tourist-adjacent areas rather than spread across the full map.

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