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Pizzeria Uno Filing for Bankruptcy

012010uno.jpg Great, first that place The Smith came along and knocked Pizzeria Uno out of the East Village, then the one on Sixth Ave and 8th Street closed last week. Now the whole goddamn plane has crashed into the mountain: Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Last week Uno closed 16 "under-performing" restaurants, but the company's marketing guy swears the bankruptcy filing is a good thing, because its restructuring will eliminate a "burdensome" debt load. You know what else is burdensome? Food snobs' condescending attitude toward Uno's mouth-watering deep dish delicacies. Just because it's a sinister corporate chain doesn't mean it can't be deliciously evil. Go show your support at one of their remaining NYC locations today!

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  • non_sequitur

    Bankruptcy is a good thing when you're in that much trouble... I don't know why that's surprising?

  • Guest

    i love unos. who doesn't like unos?

  • newport27

    whenever you see another small business closing down, thank bloomberg. hey, it's been happening for the past eight years. thousands, if not tens of thousands of businesses and hard-working middle class new york citizens were driven out by bloomberg's ridiculously astronomical and essentially criminal tax, fine, and fee hikes.

  • RevWaldo

    Could be worse. Could be west coast pizza.

    http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/22/sucky_pizza.html

  • T Howard

    Lived in Chicago for 12 years, and always hated UNO's. I need some spices in my tomato sauce. The one in downtown Chi is a tourist trap.

    If you're there visiting and wanna try awesome Chicago style, go off the beaten path a bit and seek out Pequod's in Lincoln Park

    http://pequodspizza.com/

    Half the crust on the side is caramelized cheese. Amazing!

  • John Del Signore

    Thanks for the tip! I'll remember that.

  • Tower18

    Never ate at one of the chain Uno's simply because they were the worst of the Chicago deep dish places. Gino's all the way.

  • HypocraticOath

    The only burdensome load in regards to Uno has nothing to do with their balance sheet and everything to do with what will come pouring out of my ass after eating the food.

  • thereader

    Good riddance. I ordered take out from there once and they told me 15 minutes. I waited for an hour. And the host was a real jerk about it too.

  • NannyState

    They got tired and stale. And next time, try wiping a table or two.

  • Gothampc

    I really need a Dumb Monkey.

    Although their service wasn't always the best. One time I was in the one on 6th Avenue and I ordered Pizza Skins. They brought them without sour cream. I said "Where's the sour cream?" They said "We ran out." I said, "You can't run over to Food Emporium and buy a carton?" I think they got mad and spit in my food.

  • eat vegans

    WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD MESS WITH RAY??? FUHGEDDABOUTIT!!

  • Kelles

    they should re-open in New Jersey and rake in those "munchies" and Chris Christie bucks!

  • obsoletest

    I love a good deep dish pizza. I don't consider it truly pizza, but it's still a great dish. I've never eaten at the famous original UNO in Chicago, which may be great, but the "UNO Chicago Grill" chain's food is crap. Overpriced, greasy, bland crap that makes Pizza Hut look good by comparison. Bankruptcy is no surprise.

  • Thespis

    After living off Giordano's for a couple of years, I could never stomach Uno -- particularly the Uno here. Giordano's is surprisingly light (or as light as you're ever going to get for deep dish).

    Uno is a gut bomb.

  • longacre

    I don't care if they're 3000 calories, Pizza Skins are the greatest culinary invention of all time.

    Speaking of which, does Rex Ryan have a contingency plan in place?

  • Radtard

    PREACH!

    f*ck The Smith with it's over-price bourgie yuppie in training/wannabe pretentious fun suckers.

    I need my cheap and nasty please.

  • SonnyBobiche

    I blame Bush.

    It's a JDS post so it's implied.

  • jaycjay

    "the company's marketing guy swears the bankruptcy filing is a good thing, because its restructuring will eliminate a "burdensome" debt load."

    Well, yeah. That's the point of Chapter 11. It worked for General Motors, Delta Airlines, Texaco, and on and on.

  • EastRiver

    No doubt some wizard of Wall Street with a Harvard MBA built a "model" that told them they could afford the debt.

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