We’re all tightening our belts with the cost of living at the moment… but a new pizza outlet near Aberdeen will this weekend be selling its New York-style XL pizza slices at a mind-blowing 15p!
SBARRO has brought a taste of New York City to Portlethen and, as a homage to the company’s roots, is selling its mouth-watering XL pizza slices for 15p (normally sold at around £3-3.50) for a limited time only.
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This is the first SBARRO outlet in Scotland, with others planned as the American company begins a major expansion programme in the UK.
When the company first opened in the US in 1956 it was famous for its 15 cents pizza slices, so as a treat to mark the launch of the new store the company is paying tribute to that with the knock-down prices on Friday August 30 and Saturday August 30
SBARRO Portlethen will be open from 10am-10.30pm every day, and serving up the pizza slices that made it famous — and they won’t be skimping on the portions… even at the special 15p price!
SBARRO’s XL New York-style pizza slices are big enough to satisfy any appetite… so it’s no wonder they have been a best-seller for 70 years.
A spokesperson for SBARRO said: “In 1956, Carmela and Gennaro Sbarro opened the doors to their Italian salumeria in Brooklyn, New York. Carmela ‘Mama’ Sbarro made pizza slices for shift workers looking for a quick meal. Her slices were so popular that they soon opened a second location focused solely on pizza, and now there are over 630 SBARRO eateries across 28 countries.
“Our brand new store in Portlethen offers the best quality pizza slices that Sbarro have perfected over almost 70 years, and we thought that the best way to reflect this was in the price.
“To mark our opening, we’re doing what Mama Sbarro did… selling the finest pizza slices at the same price point that they were in 1956. To celebrate our new Portlethen store we’re giving people the SBARRO quality for just 15p a slice.
“This is our first store to open in Scotland but we are looking at more sites.”
SBARRO Portlethen is the brand’s 19th location opening in the UK. Its extensive menu also includes hash browns, a range of drinks, including cloudy lemonade and dragon fruit, and a range of coffees, including latte and cappuccino, with the option to add hazelnut, vanilla, or caramel syrup. You could also go for a meal deal with a stromboli, hash browns, and a drink to really set you up for the day.
If you want to know how much of a bargain the 15p pizza slice offer is, take a look at what some other household staples went for in 1956 (source: retrowow.co.uk)
A gallon of petrol — around 4.5 litres — was just 5s 4d — about 29p. That would set you back £6.50 today. A pack of 20 cigarettes was 25p in 1956, while a pint of beer was just two pence! You could get butter for a penny, a dozen eggs for 3p, and the average house price was just over £2,000.
You can’t get those prices back for everything… but you can get your favourite New York pizza slices from Sbarro at 1956’s knock-down cost of just 15p, but for one afternoon only at the new Portlethen store, on Friday August 30 and Saturday August 31 only (Terms and conditions apply).
