Whitley Bay Pizza Company in North Tyneside

Called in for lunch with the kids after visiting the arcade next door. The menu looked and sounded good, but perhaps we should have been suspicious that the place was empty on a Saturday lunchtime. The serving staff looked bored and disinterested, and service was very slow. Despite the place having very few customers, we waited an hour to get our food - albeit because our order had been ‘lost’ between the service counter and the kitchen. We did get an apology for this, but we got the impression that nobody really cared. When the pizza eventually arrived, it was underwhelming. Not terrible, but the dough was slightly undercooked, and overall they were not as tasty as you might expect given that it’s all the company makes. As we were leaving, some other customers were being turned away because the kitchen had run out of pizza dough. At 2pm on a Saturday. Perhaps they were the lucky ones. We won’t go back.