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cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

I haven't beed to Pizza School for a while now. The last time I ate one of their pizzas, it gave me food poisoning. You get what you pay for, I suppose.

r122925 · Joined: 02 Jun 2011

According to this

http://news.kbs.co.kr/society/2012/02/17/2437124.html

The topping cheese is 100% natural. It's only the string cheese that they stuff inside the crust that is artificial. They also don't mention any names, but they say they found this result at 6 different chains. So I guess the solution is don't order the cheese crust?

CPT · Joined: 25 Mar 2007

Heartbreaking.

I'm moving back to an area where fast/easy/cheap food options are kind of scarce, and Pizza School was going to be a staple in my diet.

That being said, I'm not sure I actually care. It's a 5000 won pizza, and you get what you pay for.

And if it really is only the cheese crust, I don't eat that anyway.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

Most pizza schools are owned by mom and pop franchises. Its going to be sad to see their business impacted negatively because of this news.

fermentation · Joined: 22 Jun 2009

Don't think it's that big of a deal. I guess false advertising is, but its not like they're using stuff that'll kill you. They said the fake stuff isn't harmful to your health.

myenglishisno · Joined: 08 Mar 2011 Location: Geumchon

Airborne9 · Joined: 01 Jun 2010

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

Fake cheese is known locally as Korean Cheese�

highstreet · Joined: 13 Nov 2010

Funny thing is, they got in trouble a few years back for using "fake cheese".

maximmm · Joined: 01 Feb 2008

ja2dared · Joined: 24 Nov 2011 Location: United States

Thank you for posting this! I saw the story as I was flipping through the channels, but I cant understand Korean..so I had no idea what the results of the tests were.

Hence the reason I am going to my first Korean class tomorrow!

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

Swampfox10mm · Joined: 24 Mar 2011

I've lived in Korea for 10 years.

What is the "cheese" you speak of?

coralreefer_1 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009

fosterman · Joined: 16 Nov 2011

1 kilo bag of mozzarella from a supplier of pretty good quality which most restaurants here use is 10.000 won.

a pizza is probably 100grams of cheese
so that's 1000 won per pizza just from the cheese.

now the cheapest pizza at pizza school is 5000 won.

so the cheese takes up 20% of the cost. if they were using REAL CHEESE.
I don't know what kind of cheese they are using, but I did ask my local pizza school owner last night and he said the cheese comes from USA.
now it's possible the franchise buy in bulk and then have the stores by the ingredients from them, and maybe the cost of cheese works out less than 1000 won.

so factor in cheese, sauce, dough, toppings, labor a 5000 won pizza you should be making 3000 won profit on it.
I can't see the dough and sauce and the cheap pepperoni they use costing more than 1000won.
judging by the sauce they use, that doesn't look like quality tomatoes.
looks more like concentrate and watered down and thickened.

but still 3000 won profit on a pie. is really low, sure most customers order two pies and maybe some drinks so hopefully from each other you are taking 10-14000 won gross and your profit is around 6~8000won
but you really need to sell a lot of pies to bring home some money.
these shops are usually owned by old people who work it themselves.

but compared to the shops charging 20K a pie, pizza schools usually sell more volume and have less over heads, no drivers, less staff, no frills etc.