i moved to lawrence about five or six months ago and i order from fat freddy's at least once a week. it used to be amazing and it's still the only place i'll order delivery from. the people who work there are very courteous and the food usually arrives within an hour. however, in the last couple of months the quality of the food has just gone down the drain - lots of cold, rubbery sandwiches, missing items, and soggy appetizers. they still have the best pizza in town but the main reason i love them is because of the variety of their menu and almost everything else on the menu has been sucking lately! please bring back the hot, tasty deliciousness fat freddy's is known for.

I love Fat Freddys Pizza! I give props to Fred for building a company out of the ashes that was Gumbys pizza.. They have great food and friendly employees. I think this place is gonna be a staple of Lawrence someday.

Super awesome pizzas and cheese sticks! The wings were pretty tasty too.

Really disappointed. My food arrived about an hour and a half after I ordered it. All of the boxes were obviously smashed tightly into something, which was confusing because two of them were in a plastic bag to the side. The curly fries had obviously been packed and then sat in a car for probably 45 minutes, were cold, chewy and wet from the cooked condensation. The wings were fine, disappointed in the quality, but they were cheap and the sauce masked all gross things. The pizza, lets talk about that. I ordered cream cheese as a topping, expecting cream cheese spread over the pizza in a uniform general manner. Nope. I received about 3 huge globs of cream cheese on a pizza. Topped off with more cheese. So some one really made the conscious decision that that was a good idea. The pizza arrived, and half of the pizza had slid down and folded on top of its self, so that was gross. The cream cheese did allow its self to spread out more evenly that way. All in all, it was a pretty tragic experience. We were ready to eat delicious hot, fresh food, and instead received a box of ok pizza, poorly topped, and cold ruined fries. Not worth the money I spent.

Hello Lawrence,

This is Fred speaking. I've been ignoring tul740's comment for nearly a year now but apparently there is no expiration date for comments posted on the internet. Last year, on August 1st, I opened my doors for business. Actually, I just started answering my phones (I'll explain the phone number later) and for the first 17 days I made every delicious pizza with my very own hands. Unfortunately, that business model doesn't work if you want to live past 40. So, I hired a former shuttle employee (you were right torifreak13 - you hit that one on the nose) to manage my weekend day shift and Monday and Tuesday night shift. We aren't open for lunch on the weekdays, so this gave me 2 days off (Monday & Tuesday) and I only worked 12 hours on the weekends instead of 19. Life was sweet, or so I thought. Then I started getting text messages from my friends. Late deliveries, sub par food, and unfriendly customer service. I did a spot check one weekend and discovered that my manager was unavailabe due to a self-inflicted sickness and the prep guy was making pizzas that were just one giant bubble. I even found a bottle of whiskey in the walk-in...ON DAY SHIFT! Well, those guys are gone now. I didn't have the heart to tell my former manager's dad why I fired his son when he came to get his kid's w-2. Maybe we'll see him on Intervention someday. Good luck with life, dude.

I was about to say, "Enough with the past, let's talk about the future," but then I realized I must answer the GUMBY question. Gumby's Pizza had a good run. For many years they made decent pizzas and Emphasisawesome pokey stix. They sold them for a very competitive price and did well for themselves for years, but in the end... they lost. I managed Gumby's in Lawrence way back in 1998-1999. I was also the person who motivated the company to expand into Manhattan in 2000. I parted ways with Gumby's Pizza International in 2000.

After my employment with Gumby's, I took my settlement (did I mention they owed me money?) and I moved to Florida. BTW, you can't retire at 25 off of 10 grand. I found that out the hard way. In Florida, I started cooking for a pretty awesome Pizzeria and Ristorante called Broadway. When I started working for Broadway there were only 5 stores. It really was a mom and pop shop, locally owned, I lived just a few blocks from the owners....of course their house was on the lake...not mine. I had a swimming pool though! And swimming pools operate 12 months a year in Florida. I was doing pretty good for myself. 9 years later, there were 9 Broadways and I had managed 3 of them in the Orlando area. I told my dad once, "I'm eight years in....I've got a doctorate in Pizza".

Fred.

lol @ uncut pizza. must be a shuttle employee! what pizza place would send out a pie without cutting it? Love their pizzas that are always cut lol. Calzones too!!!

Haha, wow. No sauce and no cheese? I've gotten a couple pizzas there and while they're not fantastic, they've very good considering the price. Always had all the ingredients anyway.

Ordered a large pepperoni, got an uncut slab of crust with no sauce and almost no cheese on it.

Sent it back and got a new pizza, which was better, but about what you'd expect from the place that used to be Gumby's.

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