Ciao Pizza: Cooking Chaos

Running a pizza shop seemed easier from the outsideThe sauce is burning. There’s a pizza in the oven. Someone is waiting at the counter, the phone is ringing, and your friend has disappeared with the scooter. Welcome to Ciao Pizza. Run a pizza shop alone or with up to three friends, where every order starts as a ball of dough and ends — hopefully — in the hands of the right customer. Make every pizza yourselfPress the dough.

Ladle the sauce. Grate the cheese. Add every topping by hand, then slide the pizza into the oven. Pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, pineapple, if it’s on the ticket, somebody has to put it there. Every order goes through your hands from start to finish. Just don’t forget what you left in the oven. Something always needs your attentionCustomers are lining up. The sauce is still on the burner. The soda fountain is almost empty. A phone order just came in.

And somewhere behind you, a pizza is becoming charcoal. You only have two hands. Good luck. Bring friends. Blame them later. Play alone or with up to three friends in drop-in co-op. Split the work. One cooks, one handles customers, two takes deliveries. Or all four of you can crowd around the same pizza while everything else falls apart. That works too. Take the pizza across townSome customers won’t come to you.…