Credit: Photo via Villa Italian Kitchen/Instagram

Credit: Photo via Villa Italian Kitchen/Instagram
At any given pizza party there’s always that person who leaves a giant pile of uneaten crusts behind. Well, now a pizza chain would like to sell those back to you.

Villa Italian Kitchen, a nationwide chain with multiple Florida locations (including Tampa Bay, Miami and Orlando), is now offering a limited “slice” of crusts. 

Starting Thursday, July 18, customers can spend $2.75 on six servings of crusts jammed into a container shaped like a slice.

The company says they’ve had many requests for the “The Crusts” dish, which isn’t just a pile of used bread, says the company. “Our crust is much better than just any old bread,” said Villa Restaurant Group’s Chief Operating Officer Andrew Steinberg to Miami.com. “That’s like saying that ordering a filet mignon is ‘just ordering beef.’ It’s obviously a much more high-quality experience.”

As of now it’s unclear what the company does with the “uncrusted” pizza slices, or if they’re even considering a new “crustless” pizza, which would be the next logical step. 

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Colin Wolf has been working with weekly newspapers since 2007 and has been the Digital Editor for Creative Loafing Tampa since 2019. He is also the Director of Digital Content Strategy for CL's parent...