Marco's Pizza

I was in an argument with my dad on a Sunday evening, expressing my reasoning for why we absolutely, desperately needed Marco’s Pizza right now.

“Listen, Dad, I gotta do a review. You don’t want me fail...do you?”

He sighed, “And you chose Marco’s Pizza?” To be completely honest, I was slightly offended by his judgment of my food choices.

Nevertheless, he complied, and told me we could order the pizza that I was neither enthusiastically looking forward to, but also not in the least unhappy about. As for the rest of my family, I received a lovely mix of, “sure” and “whatever” that gave me the go ahead to get this Marco’s Pizza show on the road.

Marco’s Pizza is not your average Joe pizza place, it has—I’m lying. It might be the definition of your average pizza place, due to the stunningly standard selection of pizza, the beverages that every Nebraskan family has in their basement fridge, and the various options of risky sides and desserts as an interesting attempt to exceed average pizza expectations.

I followed my dad to his computer, where he immediately found the Marco’s Pizza website. Marco’s doesn’t really have a dine in option; there’s maybe four or five tiny tables squeezed inside the restaurant.

Scanning the website, we selected a large cheese pizza and a large pepperoni pizza, both with normal crust. Now, Marco’s isn’t restricted to only pizza, it offers sub sandwiches for when the drive to Subway is too far, salads for when you want to try to feel healthy, and desserts for when trying to feel healthy just doesn’t work out. My dad and I decided to go healthy, and added two Greek salads and one garden salad to the mix. Deciding the dressing to go with the salad was easy enough; we went with the vinaigrette, a fancy topping for our kingly vegetarian choice.

Completed with the choosing of the meal, my dad went to check out and submit the order. Interestingly enough, the Marco’s website had personally decided to add four more salads and a meat lovers pizza. “Take notes,” my dad said, “Interface can be difficult to navigate.”

After a few frustrating and confusing minutes, we finally got our order back to normal. My dad even had a coupon for a buy-one-get-one-free pizza, which reasonably brought the price down. Overall, the prices were pretty sensible.