Pizza-hungry New Yorkers are fuming after shelling out $75 for tickets to a pizza festival where attendees claimed all they got were slivers of cold pizza slices at a "shady" Brooklyn parking lot.
Gothamist reports New York City Pizza Festival, which took place in a parking lot in Bushwick Saturday, was promoted as a "day long celebration of the dough, cheese, tasty sauces and delicious toppings," but people instead got "cold and awful" pizza that were "smaller than a sample size," as one person complained on Facebook.
"It was like the people from Fyre Festival decided to throw a pizza party," attendee Connell Burke told Gothamist, referring to the heavily-promoted and disastrous music festival that landed the promoter in jail in New York earlier this summer.
Video from the event shows lines around the block of a near-empty parking lot. An attendee said on Facebook there were just three tents serving up slices of pizza "smaller than my palm."
"This is bull----!" The fact that my friend and I spent 55 dollars each for such a s----- event like this is unbelievable!" one woman complained on the event's Facebook page. "All we got was warm red wine that tasted like a--."
The Pizza Festival event page posted during the event: "Hi guys, we've been hit by an incredible amount of delays in pizza delivery. Fresh, diverse and delicious pizza was supposed to be delivered every 30 minutes. A make-up tasting will be announced shortly. Sincere apologies. Please do not come for the rest of the night's tastings."
The apology didn't appease attendees.
"Make-up tasting? Shut the ---- up. Give us our money back, how's that for a make up?" one woman retorted.
Furious customers quickly coalesced on Facebook, creating their own group, "Pizza Festival Scam Victims."
"This was a rotten scam, they promoted this as a pizza festival and a hamburger festival. People who arrived early said there were about 5 pies cut into micro slices of really bad pizza. There were no hamburgers! Clearly this is a scam and the organizers hould be held accountable."
The festival organizer, Ishmael Osekre, didn't respond to Gothamist's requests for comment.
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