Last night I happened to be texting and talking with several old friends from the area. (All lived less than a mile away from Roma’s, in Tuckahoe, Bronxville, Eastchester, or Yonkers.) Just catching up like we do every few weeks. I asked their thoughts on Roma’s. Not one said they ever saw lines or that the pizza was any good.
Spoke just now to a friend I’ve known since we were teens, whose family went there on a regular basis. From the late 60’s to around five years ago. Basically several times a week since the parents didn’t cook much. Most of the family has no taste in food. I know because I went to Roma’s several times with them, and to other mediocre places over the years. Never to one place that was really good. My old friend knows food. He was the cook for two excellent deli’s when in his early 20’s, and was always trying to talk his family into going to better places to eat. They were just caught in a food rut and ate at all the same places again and again. I totally trust his food judgement, since we ate our way around Westchester and NYC from when we got our drivers licenses, until late 20’s. He only ate with them as a family thing. His response when asked about Roma’s and if he ever saw lines there was, “Gag no! Worst pizza in NY.”
My friends have been to both the old location just down the street, and the new. Never saw any lines. Maybe there were lines for a day or two when they moved to the new, custom built location, in the 80’s?
I’m not arguing that there were no lines. Or that some people liked or even loved their pizza. But neither I, nor any of my friends from that area, ever liked the pizza, or saw or heard of lines to get in.