Restaurant Accused Of Selling $2 Frozen Pizzas For $18

A restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, is allegedly selling $2 frozen pizzas for $18. Coquin also advertises the pizza as “gourmet Roman-style thin crust pizza, with house made marinara sauce and whole milk mozzarella.” The restaurant sells two variants of “gourmet pizzas”: a cheese pie for $18, and a pizza with toppings for $20. InsideHook has more details:

Chef and owner Chip Grimalda told the paper that the restaurant has sold about 20 pizzas a day. “Everyone who’s ordered it has given us rave reviews,” he said. “Right now, we’re still getting (the needed) ingredients in: That may change in the future, but we’re just trying to, you know, make it through to the next week.”

However, The Post and Courier reports having witnessed Grimalda receive a pizza order on Tuesday, “go from the restaurant to his nearby apartment, then leave on a delivery run with corrugated cardboard boxes that read, ‘Fresh Pizza, Oven Baked.’” The publication also found four-pack boxes of Kirkland Signature Cheese Pizza with Breadcrumb Crusts inside the restaurant’s trash cans.

When asked if he was passing off frozen pizzas as homemade and selling them for marked-up prices, Grimalda said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s definitely not Costco, and that’s all I have to say.”