Famous Ray’s Pizza

The Good:
— One of the best crusts we’ve ever had. Perfectly cooked with a light crunch, but still soft. Also plenty of flavor.
— Fair prices on everything.
— Good choice of appetizers/​sides.
The Bad:
— One of the greasiest pizzas I’ve ever had. We ordered a pepperoni and that can sometimes be a bit greasy, but this was significantly worse than other places. We’re hoping this was a fluke.
The Nit Picky:
— Terrible cheap napkins. I’m a sucker for a place with good napkins. It is sad how many places cheap out on the napkins these days. This normally isn’t anything more than a minor annoyance, but when the food is super greasy, you need a way to clean up. We probably went through 20 napkins between three of us just to keep the grease off our chins.
I’m sure we’ll go back to give Ray’s another try. There are some great looking pictures from other Unilocalers that make me look forward to trying the wings!

Family owned, Rhonnie and his son are the masters of customer service. The pizza is outstanding New York style, crispy but chewy crust, with the only drawback being canned mushrooms. They just remodeled the place, looks great, and watching a football game while drinking a draft beer is the way to go here. Their white pizza is the best around, and even the sandwiches are good. Easy to pick up your order for the weekend games, chicken wings too. Best pizza in the area, great prices too, you will not be disappointed.

This place should have been gone long ago! Buy a frozen pizza, you will be better off. My daughter and I got sick eating reheated pizza. Weirdo guy working there. I will never go back,

Pretty decent pizza joint, but knocked down 2 stars for using CANNED mushrooms on the pizza. Ewww. That’s a no-​no.

Great pie, on time for pick up. Reasonable, friendly and clean. Nice thin crust pie…

So glad I took a chance on this place. Clean, fast and friendly service. I especially love the lunch slices have light crispy crust with just the right amount of sauce. Yum! :-)

pizza was AWESOME! Owner is friendly knows us by name after a few visits, good for kids. Super Clean!

Something in the water out here in Arizona prevents the production of first rate pizza. Even the Grimaldi’s and NYPD’s can’t attain the quality of crust that you get on the East Coast.
Oh well…
Ray’s does the job of satisfying our pizza cravings. The cheese is a bit salty, and the crust is somewhat floppy. Wait, sounds like a corner pizza store in small-​town USA. Which is exactly what this is.

I understand why the place is always empty because the food sucks. The manager is rude everytime I go and the food takes for ever to make. I been there 3 times and I always leave pissed off. (I go to rays at last minute because Joeys next door always busy) I will never go back to rays.

the location has been taken over by a new owner. Great lunch specials quick service
we try to get here at least once a month. Give the new guy a shot. You won’t be disappointed!

Have been coming to this rays for years with many family members and friends. We love coming here and have become regulars and are recognized by the friendly individuals whom work here each time we walk through the doors. They are extremely hard working and have always given our family a great experience each time we come in. The pizza is great as well as the subs and one of our favorites, the antipasto salad. We have made it a tradition to come eat here after every lake trip over the summer. I recommend this rays over all the others in the area. We love it!

Family owned. always willing to go the extra mile for their regular customers … great food & cold beer!!!

Whoever the manager was on Sunday 30^th Dec was awful. I called to let him know that we got a pizza with things on it we did not order. His response was, «we use a mix so if you order green peppers you get other peppers, and i’ll bet you $ 1000.00 there was no tomato on your pizza, you’re just saying that because you didn’t like my pizza».
Not acceptable. I will never go there again. We have given them many chances and I’m always disappointed. If I have the opportunity to talk to the owner I will let him know his people need to step it up… My only frustration is that we actually have tipped ungrateful people :(

It may not be the nicest looking place in town but you can’t beat Ray’s pepperoni — delicious! I’ve had better luck with whole pies vs the standalone slices; don’t know why. Maybe they’ve just been sitting out too long.

I’ve given Famous Ray’s two chances (another location had raised my hopes), and both times I’ve walked away nonplussed.
The pizza is especially greasy. The sauce and crust are okay, but the cheese is synthetic and the toppings are either old or low-​quality… they just didn’t add any flavor.
The cashiers I’ve had have both done their job of handing me my pizza and ringing me up, but neither looked like they planned on being at the job tomorrow. I didn’t dare peek at the chefs.
The store itself was what you’d expect from a take-​out pizza dive. Flourescent lighting, poorly cleaned, totally unappetizing.

Not a pleasant experience…
I like to find the positive in most anything, but trying to do that for this location of ‘Famous Ray’s Pizza’ is going to be a challenge. We went in because Jared was craving a slice or two of pizza and we were headed north for the weekend. At other pizza joints around town, you can literally walk in and choose your slice from the counter and it is ready to go… not the case here.
Jared ordered his slices and I ordered what I thought would be a grilled chicken salad. Side note — Jared questioned the girl taking our orders about what kind of meats and cheeses they use for their sandwiches and she had no idea. He wanted to hear ‘Boar’s Head,’ but he got a clueless expression instead. Anyways, back to our order…
Not only could he not choose his slice, but we waited a good 10 minutes for the slices and the salad… which would be ok if the food were good. Unfortunately, the pizza was really greasy and the salad came with fried chicken (not grilled as I thought) and not only fried, but fried with a huge piece of hair inside it… GROSS!
Since I did say I try to find the positive, I will say that when we made the restaurant aware of the hair in the salad, they offered to replace it, give us a pizza, or give us our money back… I was surprised when Jared said «it’s ok, just remember us next time we’re back.» I think he felt bad… needless to say, we will not be going back anytime soon — free pizza or not!