New York’s Pizza Festival Infuriated Guests With FYRE-Like Failures

A while back, the FYRE Festival left a pretty bad taste in people’s mouths. What was intended to be an island paradise musical festival with villas and gourmet food turned out to the be a tremendous disappointment. It looks like another festival is disappointing attendees, and this one hits a little closer to home thanks to the promise of the universal embrace of warm pizza.

GrubStreet reports that the New York City Pizza Festival pissed a lot of people off over the weekend. Folks came from far and wide, paying up to $75 a ticket to wait in a “sketch” Bushwick parking lot filled with empty tables and not nearly enough food.

As you can see here, the pizza looks far from filling:

It seems that the event had a single tent that workers were cutting embarrassingly thin slices of “bad” pizza to feed the hungry guests. Allegedly, the organizers had trouble finding the 30 pizza vendors they promised their guests so they ordered about five pizzas to the venue.

Guests were peeved.

Not too long after, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office launched an inquiry into the event. Never piss off a New Yorker anyone with the promise of pizza.

The festival’s organizers posted a few days ago that they’ll simply be issuing everyone who came full refunds. The only thing customers couldn’t get back, unfortunately, was the time they wasted waiting in line.