Wawa’s Got Pizza. One Washington Post Writer Is Asking, ‘Why?’

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Wawa's Supreme pizza with pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, green peppers and red onions.
Image via Jennifer Beeson Gregory, The Washington Post.
Wawa pizza has been added to the menu but one Washington Post writer doesn't understand why.

Delaware County’s favorite convenience store chain has a new item on its menu–Wawa pizza.

“Why?” asks Tim Carman for The Washington Post.

Wawa is on an expansion tear. Not only is it adding new stores nationwide left and right, but it’s also expanding its menu. 

Last year, hamburgers and fries made it to a dinner menu hoping to reach people beyond midday hoagies and late-night snacks.

Pizza seems like a logical next step. It’s popular and easy to make. Relatively easy.

A recent sampling trip at three Wawas in the Washington, D.C. area showed a pizza order can be trying for staff.  

“Pizza seems to put a burden on an already busy team,” Carman wrote.

Plus, it can take 20 to 30 minutes to get it to a customer, a convenience-store pizza without the convenience, Carman noted.

“At best, Wawa pizza is a cheese-delivery system, and perhaps at 2 a.m. (or on some lonely highway in the middle of nowhere), when you have no better options, that alone will suffice,” he wrote. “But when it comes to pizza, I desire something with a personality, any personality, not this generic doormat with cheese.”

Find out more about Tim Carman’s Wawa pizza experience in The Washington Post.


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