Long Island pizzeria goes viral with saucy videos giving bad diners a taste of their own medicine: ‘Go sit down’
That’s-a one spicy pizzeria!
A Long Island pizza shop has gone viral for saucy social media video skits that mercilessly mock bad customer behaviors — with one clip showing a dining dunce punished with water sprayed in his face.
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Phil’s Pizzeria in Syosset has been dramatizing blood-boiling interactions with customers using some real pie-in-the-face humor packed with colorful language and jokes even spicier than the red pepper flakes.
The inaugural video — which has gotten over half a million likes — shows owner Laurino bagging up an order to go while a “customer” played by a staffer tells him, “that slice was supposed to be stay.”
“Did you say that when you ordered it?” Laurino says in the clip. “Then it ain’t your ‘f—in’ slice, go sit down, I’ll call you when yours is ready.”
Laurino said he and his staff didn’t set out to slice up their own little pizza Internet fame but decided to dramatize the real, routine calamities that happen at the North Shore slice shop.
“This one woman orders a house salad without lettuce… a guy comes in and asks for grilled chicken with no grill marks,” Laurino told The Post.
“A man grabbed a plate too soon from a server, got a stain on his clothes, and called the next day asking for six to seven dollars to have his pants cleaned — I have no idea where he got that number from.
“This industry needs a reality show,” he went on. “I tell everybody, ‘you’re not going to believe what happens at work.”
More kind than famed restaurateur Keith McNally, who directly puts bad customers on blast, Laurino and staff never out the actual bad customers — their videos are a bit Hollywood in production but all New York when it comes to attitude.
“I started keeping a notepad next to the counter to write things down as they happen — and we get new material each day,” Laurino said, adding his employees take notes of their own.
Sassy & saucy
The spicy videos rip folks who refer to sauce as gravy, move tables together without asking and talk low on the phone — with one targeting wannabe food influencers groveling for a free meal.
A pair of the worst customer sins he regularly sees are when people leave their garbage on the counter instead of using the pail, which is clearly visible right next to the door, and those who order their pizza excessively well done.
“It’s not a steak,” he scoffed, adding that people who want pineapple pizza are also insufferable.
Another pet peeve, which Laurino filmed Friday, is when hard-of-hearing female customers throw a fit when he asks them if they “want a fork” or a spoon — thinking he said something much raunchier.
“It’s gotten to the point I have to say, ‘Would you like a utensil?’” the owner said.
The videos have helped Phil’s gather 150,000 Instagram followers and have become so crucial to business that he has enlisted content creator Gregory Heinrich — while Laurino’s wife, Vincenza, and store manager Anthony Corrao play regular parts.
Corrao often dons the antagonist role and was recently sprayed with a water bottle for playing a rude customer at the counter. He was also berated as an “animale” for carelessly spilling grated cheese.
Laurino’s “alter ego” — he swears the social media bashing is far from his true, more bubbly persona on the job — is now so iconic that the owner was recognized while on vacation abroad and even appeared on Z100 with Elvis Duran to talk about grandma pies.
“Meanwhile, I feel like I’m just some donkey that owns a pizzeria,” joked the restaurateur.
Heated reactions
However, while responses to Laurino’s f-bombs and slapstick are overwhelmingly positive, there are some social media trolls taking things too far, he said.
“One guy wrote, ‘I know the kind of car you drive and I’ll be waiting for you in the parking lot one night,’” said Laurino, who added another person online tastelessly said he should be shot in the neck like conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
“I’ve had to file police reports, I don’t leave here alone at night anymore…if I see a car following me, I won’t go directly home. People get f–king mad, I don’t know why.”
However, Laurino said the good more than outweighs the bad, and he’s got no plans to stop cooking up content.
“I love what this did for the business, and I just feel it’s only going to get better,” he said. “I’m hungry for what’s next.”
Let’s be honest—no matter how stressful the day gets, a good viral video can instantly lift your mood. Whether it’s a funny pet doing something silly, a heartwarming moment between strangers, or a wild dance challenge, viral videos are what keep the internet fun and alive.