Pizza Scoresheets: Criteria for Judging Pies

Posted by Adam Kuban, December 3, 2007 at 1:00 PM

So the Friday after Thanksgiving, Ed Levine emails me some message about how he's going a pizza tour with Bob Kinkead (of Kinkead's in D.C.) and Mark Furstenberg (founder of the BreadLine and now a baking consultant and author).

Ed's all like, "These guys are totally serious about pizza and bread. We're going to Franny's ..." Blah blah blah. And I'm like, "Where's my invite, yo? What am I, chopped liver?" Whatevs. I had plans, anyway. I just wanted a chance to turn down the invite.

Anyway, on Monday, Ed's all like, "You have to see this crazy spreadsheet they had for evaluating and ranking pizza. It was insane!"

Ed asked Kinkead to send a copy, which he did. And that's what you're looking at above. Check that thing out! Kinkead says, "I have included The rubric we showed you and another score card I made [after the jump], which we didn't end up using. I still have not gotten around to tallying up and writing down our conclusions, but I'll send it when I do. There were 14 places total."

Pizza Scoresheet 2, on Google Docs

Download Excel docs: PizzaQuestScoresheet.xls and PizzaQuestScoresheet2.xls

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I had a good laugh. It's really accurate and i'm sure it serves them well.

Prairie at 2:07AM on 12/04/07

Was this in NYC or DC? (Mr. Kinkead & Mr. Furstenberg are both based in DC)

Delorenzosfan at 12:50PM on 12/04/07

They were apparently in New York at some point over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Adam Kuban at 3:01PM on 12/04/07

Adam -

Is there a trick to downloading copies of these files? They would be useful for my own reviewing purposes, but I cannot figure out how to get them. Thanks!

dikaryon at 1:04PM on 12/13/07

dikaryon: I just uploaded the actual Excel files to the Slice server and linked them at the bottom of this post. You should be able to pull those down easily now.

Adam Kuban at 2:34PM on 12/13/07

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