After nearly five years in Oxford, Eric, Wayne and Garret have closed up shop at their 3 Guys Pizza location on Jackson Avenue.
What does this say about the pizza scene in Oxford after we also lost Bad Boy’z, which was directly across the street from 3 Guys? Is it a matter of location, bad pizza, or the Big Three chains taking over?
What’s your opinion?
Also with Papa Johns right across the street and 10x better (yes) ((stop it yes Papa Johns was better)), and then Dominos adjacent for the low brow or group pizza orders… of COURSE it would go out.
If you want to make the “location” argument, don’t say it was BAD location, just STUPID location… basically every corner of that intersection had a pizza place? Are you kidding me?
By: Jay on July 27, 2010
at 8:36 am
I never went to Bad Boyz but … you just can’t say that these were on “nobody’s beaten path” — they were on my path nearly daily.
I just never got around to going to BB, but I went to 3 Guys enough to know that I hated their pizza. So imho they went out not because of location, but because their food sucked.
Tell the “location location location” story to any of the restaurants that went out on the Square.
By: Jay on July 27, 2010
at 8:34 am
location is certainly a key factor in any business, but i think the the biggest key to success is making a good product (pizza).
both were terrible imo.
By: Anonymous on May 28, 2010
at 12:18 pm
Yeah, I’d have to agree with the “location” theory. Poor parking and kind of out of the way; out of sight, out of mind, ya know?
By: Lauren on May 27, 2010
at 11:29 am
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. The demise of Bad Boy’z and 3-Guys is purely due to LOCATION. No business of any type in any incarnation has ever prospered on those two building sites, because: (#1)-Those locations are on NOBODY’S beaten path, and (#2)-The entrance and egress into those parking lots is inconvenient, if not downright dangerous. Now, put Bad Boy’z or 3-Guys on the Square and you will have instant success. We Need (and deserve) a Decent Pizza Place On The Square! The sub-standard pizza joints that exist on The Square now are kept solvent only by late-night drunks. Wouldn’t it be grand if we had a pizza joint on The Square that was cherished and beloved, just like in every other college town? Wouldn’t THAT be GREAT! I remember “Blondies” in Berkely. What pizza joint do you have hunger pangs for in Austin or Ann Arbor or Madison or Cambridge or Princetown or Stanford or . . . ?
By: Bob on May 27, 2010
at 12:04 am
Dang. I loved their pizza. We just ate there last Thursday.
By: Don on May 26, 2010
at 10:30 pm