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Empire Pizza

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At Empire Pizza, we're proud to serve up delicious comfort food that's sure to satisfy your cravings. Our expert chefs craft their signature dishes with care, using only the freshest ingredients to create mouthwatering pizzas, wings, grinders, and more. We take pride in our welco...

Empire Pizza

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About Empire Pizza

At Empire Pizza, we're proud to serve up delicious comfort food that's sure to satisfy your cravings. Our expert chefs craft their signature dishes with care, using only the freshest ingredients to create mouthwatering pizzas, wings, grinders, and more. We take pride in our welcoming atmosphere, whe...

At Empire Pizza, we're proud to serve up delicious comfort food that's sure to satisfy your cravings. Our expert chefs craft their signature dishes with care, using only the freshest ingredients to create mouthwatering pizzas, wings, grinders, and more. We take pride in our welcoming atmosphere, where you can enjoy a quick bite or linger over a satisfying meal with family and friends. Whether you're a local looking for a convenient lunch spot or just passing through Schenectady, we invite you to experience the Empire difference. From our wheelchair accessible parking lot to our fast delivery options, we're committed to making every visit an enjoyable one.

What Customers Say About Empire Pizza

Empire Pizza receives mixed reviews. Many customers praise the pizza, wings, and grinders as hot, fresh, and delicious, with amazing prices. However, there are consistent complaints about undercooked pizza, late deliveries, cold food, and poor customer service, including rude staff.

Popular Dishes

pizza (10) wings (6) grinders Pastrami 12" sub spaghetti Chicken parm calzone calamari

Best For

Locals Quick Bite Casual

Tip: If ordering delivery, be prepared for potential delays and consider picking up your order to ensure it's hot. Check your order carefully, especially if you have allergies.

Features

🅿️ Parking 🚗 Delivery 🌅 Breakfast 🍽️ Lunch 🌙 Dinner
🎯 Casual 🤫 Quiet

Frequently asked questions about Empire Pizza

Empire Pizza is located at 2551 Albany St, Schenectady, NY 12304, Schenectady.
Empire Pizza offers pizza cuisine.
Empire Pizza has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
Empire Pizza offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway, delivery.
The most recommended dishes at Empire Pizza based on customer reviews are: pizza, wings, grinders, Pastrami 12" sub, spaghetti.
Empire Pizza is ideal for locals, quick bites, casual dining.
Empire Pizza receives mixed reviews. Many customers praise the pizza, wings, and grinders as hot, fresh, and delicious, with amazing prices. However, there are consistent complaints about undercooked pizza, late deliveries, cold food, and poor customer service, including rude staff.
If ordering delivery, be prepared for potential delays and consider picking up your order to ensure it's hot. Check your order carefully, especially if you have allergies.
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Empire Pizza Schenectady Reviews

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Reviews (21)
Mark J
Mark J

Very good pizza ,wings, grinders and much more! Anything and everything I have ordered from here is hot fresh and tastes delicious! Definitely a favorite for sure!!

Lisa Gifford
Lisa Gifford

My pizza was AMAZING...I typically order from marinos pizza on state street but I had been busy ALL day and wanted delivery. This pizza was very comparable and it was delivered with love and still HOT...I've ordered delivery in the past, but NEVER met a delivery person sooooo greatful for the tip I gave. I will be checking out other items on their menu and WILL ONLY order from Empire Pizza before anyone else ever again. I hope their wings,subs, and Calzones are as awsome as this pizza was. I love you guys....see you probably tomorrow when my son comes to visit from vermont!!!

Donovan Carvalho
Donovan Carvalho

Have ordered here all the time never had a problem owner is great guy there spaghetti is so good I personally go for linguine

Abigail Krisniski
Abigail Krisniski

Prices are amazing. Pizza was amazing. Chicken parm was amazing. Only wish is that the parm had more sauce but otherwise... amazing!

Link Duarte
Link Duarte

Dude makes a bomb sandwich! The price can't be beat either. Got a Pastrami 12" sub for under $12!

Tauyna Gervais
Tauyna Gervais

I shared my review 8 months ago. But I needed to update. Here we are 8 months from my original review and I’m a regular Thursday night order for Empire. The guy who answers is always so polite and patient. And the food is always good and most importantly consistent. I will continue to be a customer and I hope they never change! The prices are reasonable for the portions you get as well. I always have lunch for the next day!

Bri
Bri

I love their pizza so much! They never fail to make the best food in town.

Tennison Tower
Tennison Tower

Food was decent, a little sloppy, but taste good. My issues were the pricing. I ordered here because I got a menu in the mail, so I decided to give the place a try. I ordered a 16" Pizza half special half pepperoni. Based on the pricing from their own menu, which is less than a month old, the pizza should have cost $17.35, including the toppings. If they charged full price for both half toppings, which isn't right anyway, it would have cost $20.25. The actual price was $21.75. When I asked why the price was so high, I was given a very unenthusiastic "well you got some toppings and stuff". The receipt I asked for wasn't itemized, as I am used to from working at a different pizza place, it just showed the pizza and all toppings costing $21.75 + Tax. I still have no explanation why it cost that much extra, so I can only assume it was up-charging without notice.

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June Fay

I’m not to happy with the delivery I waited 1 hour and a half for delivery they told my it will be an hour I’m still waiting poor on delivery

J M
J M

I placed an order through Mealeo. It appeared that the restaurant (Empire Pizza) received the order at 4:55 PM. The estimated delivery time was between 5:46 PM and 5:56 PM. It is now 7:38 PM and my order has not yet arrived. I attempted to call Empire Pizza to find out if something had happened. I was on hold for 15 minutes during my first call. I attempted to call back and was on hold an additional 10 minutes. I called a third time and was on hold for 8 minutes before I finally hung up. Unfortunately, a similar situation happened a number of years ago. Something went wrong in the ordering system and I received notification that my order was cancelled. Despite that notification, the delivery arrived three hours later, and the driver banged on my door and scared me. I wasn’t expecting the order at this point, so I was not going to answer the door close to 9 PM. I am hoping the same does not happen this evening. Regardless, I am not able to get my money back because I cannot get anyone to answer the phone. I do not recommend Empire Pizza. Their deliveries are either late or do not arrive at all. I should have thought twice about ordering from there again.

Jordan Davis
Jordan Davis

Absolutely disgusting!!pizza came like a pile of mush . Wish I could post a pic

Nick Barone
Nick Barone

This place is horrible from service to food. I will never go back there front counter guy always has an attitude. The new place across the street quick slice. Is the spot to go. Once you order from there you will never go back to this place. R.i.p empire

Chad Lenseth
Chad Lenseth

Best tasting pizza and will never go back. Cook literally handed me a slice of pizza that had his hairs on it. I just pointed it out and instead of apologizing and asking if i wanted a replacement he scraped it off with the spatula right after wiping the spatula off on the most disgusting soiled apron he was wearing and handed it back. I was so stunned i just left speechless and disgusted. That guy is family so no way they care to change. Chains are only as strong as it's weakest link. Run away from the taste it's not worth the potential issues you are unaware of. I used to go practically daily until that move.

Marlaina Bullock
Marlaina Bullock

Me and my family spent a lot of money at Empire Pizza. My sandwich was made wrong. My sandwich had bacon on it and I’m allergic to bacon. I called back to ask can they accommodate me? They said no because they checked the recorded and I did not say no bacon. He told me I should’ve checked the menu. Very bad business me and my family would not spend no more money at this business.

Michael angehr
Michael angehr

Ordered a calzone, calamari and a salad. Food came a half hour late, calamari was cold, the cheese was already solidifying in the calzone. Called to complain and owner yelled at us and said if you want hot food, pick it up. I guess the 100 dollars a month spent here isn't enough for good customer service.

Darren DeNofio
Darren DeNofio

Do you like undercooked pizza? Do you like to be forced to have no topping options as you walk in starved at noon. I have worked at many pizzerias and I tell ya… this pizza has to be made from a pre-made Cysco food distribution shell, and it has entirely too much cheese and not enough sauce. It is like eating a leather boot. Flavor was just ok but it was undercooked. In my opinion this place has to be a front for something else. I dunno if it has recently changed owners and all these 5-star reviews are from previous owner experiences… we only went there because Califanos across the street was closed. We should have gone with my gut and went to 4-corners. I tried to heat it up and crisp it up and as I picked the slice up to take a bite all the cheese fell off In a big clump….nope can’t do it. I wouldn’t feed it to my dog.

Ben H.
Ben H.

Was in love with this joint for the quality they gave for the price, ordering all the time for a long time via the Slice app, our go to... until I got a delivery that took longer than usual (not rare in Schenectady but not very often)... ordered a 12 cut half pepperoni and a sub (usually order two pizzas or the 24 cut special), but when it arrived, tiny diced peppers all over the pizza which none of my hungry kids will touch, and a smell no one can stand. Of course, due to my desire for a sub that night, there wasn't even a backup pizza to feed them. Slice contacted them several times, no refunds, no remake, no credit, and they claim they made it to the order yet even Slice confirmed no peppers were ordered. They died on that hill; haven't ordered my weekly/biweekly order since... Order from Vintage when looking for great value; almost as inexpensive, same if not better quality, and the delivery guy (even if ordered through Slice) is awesome, even remembers your usual orders.

Colleen Haffner
Colleen Haffner

We have been long time customers at empire but lately it has been terrible, food and service. Tonight we placed an order at 5:49 for a medium pepperoni pizza and 10 extra crispy hot wings. Said it would be ready by 6:09. My husband showed up exactly on time and was told they are just waiting on the pizza. No problem. Over an HOUR goes by since we ordered and my pizza is still not done and my wings that are supposed to be extra crispy have been sitting the entire time. Finally the food comes and my husband asks to speak to the owner and tells him we ordered the wings extra crispy and we’ve been waiting an hour for just the pizza and the wings will be cold and not crispy and the owner rudely responds would you like me to do reheat your wings??? No apology, no attempt at offering a future credit or anything. And the best part is we live 30 seconds from empire, we immediately started eating since we’ve been waiting so long and of course the wings were ice cold but so was the pizza that we just waited an hour on so I’m pretty sure our pizza was done way before it was handed to him.

Briana Krzykowski
Briana Krzykowski

Wings were so dry and hard to chew they have to be old! The potato skins were cold potatoes with cheese sauce in them…. Maybe the super bowl wasn’t the day to try this place but i won’t be back!

Redd Pharaoh
Redd Pharaoh

Usually enjoy food from this establishment and the experience. The girl at the counter has always been very respectful and kind. However today 30 wings and 12 cut pizza. BAD DECISION decent but not as good as it’s been (normal, happens) thats fine, But we start eating the wings and jaws start hurting, i looked down to discover day old, discolored,dry wings, mind you its 2 in the afternoon. My wife calls, the man is rude and yelling, telling her bring the remaining wings back (mind you it’s Covid restrictions on that & snowing outside). @ this point he tells her, he “doesn’t trust her”, i was disgusted after eating their bad food and being asked to TRUST THEM & after him being violent with my wife. I take the phone and this guy started yelling @ me, telling me to stop talking to him like that right after he didn’t know i could hear him yelling @ my wife. Terrible. He’s a lucky man because I chose to pray & write this review. MY SUGGESTION, CHOOSE A DIFFERENT PLACE TO EAT. THEY WILL NEVER SEE OUR MONEY AGAIN. Customer service is everything and old food is not acceptable period. To be fair, They young lady called back and offered to redo the wings and to my better judgment, we declined.

MusicCollaborator
MusicCollaborator

Im highly suspicious of any positive reviews because they have been consistently bad Over cooked tasteless pizza over cooked under stuffed calzones wings that are dry anemic and awful. We got two drumettes out of ten wings & some wings were as small as my finger I am not kidding 90 minute wait time on orders & bad customer service. Go to yelp dont trust positive reviews. You can also see the REAL pizza that we took pictures of.

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2551 Albany St, Schenectady, NY 12304

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🥞 Breakfast
🍽️ Lunch
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🥡 Takeout
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🕐 Hours Today
11AM-10:30PM
Rating
3.3/5
💬 Reviews
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People typically spend 10 min to 1 hr here
📞 Phone
+1 518-393-8888
🌐 Website
empirepizzeriaschenectady.com
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