![]() ![]() “They order the craziest things,” Lindsey says. It has Canadian bacon, pepperoni, bacon, extra mozzarella cheese and spicy pizza sauce.īut it’s not just pizza that people order through the night. 1 pizza is the triple pepperoni, made with three types - deli-sliced, diced, and cup and char - along with extra mozzarella cheese and their spicy pizza sauce. If I’m not happy with it, I’m not serving it.” Lindsey adds: “People aren’t paying Little Caesars prices for the pizza, because it is expensive, but people aren’t going to get Little Caesars quality. We use top-of-the-line cheese - it’s never been frozen, it comes straight from California.” I stopped using canned pizza sauce, and I developed my own sauce recipe. "I started using the highest quality ingredients there are. “I stopped using their cheap food vendor," he says. He also focused on improving the quality of the product. Michael Lindsey The hours weren’t the only thing Lindsey changed when he took over the place last year. "I never thought I was going to need more than one overnight driver.” “During the weekdays, I have to have three drivers until 4 a.m.," he says. Lindsey says the pizzeria has been busy every night until 4. “If you open Grubhub after then, Old Hag is the only place - not just pizza place - that will show up because we’re the only people using our own drivers.” “Their drivers end at 11 every night, and they stop taking orders at 10:45,” Lindsey says. Lindsey uses his own fleet of drivers and does not rely on Grubhub’s drivers. 1 delivered food is pizza, so why aren’t there more 24-hour pizza places?” - Michael Lindsey tweet this People find Old Hag through delivery apps like Grubhub and UberEats. If people are hungry, they’ll pay for whatever. ![]() People pay the big delivery fees because we’re the only option,” Lindsey says. We go as far as Grand Prairie, Irving and Mesquite. “You can get barbecue all night, you can get tacos all night, but not pizza,” Lindsey says. “We will be open 24 hours on Christmas Day.” Michael Lindsey “We have a sign on the door that says, ‘We never close,’ and I mean that,” Lindsey says. Initially, he planned only to be open 24 hours on weekends, but the response was overwhelming, and he decided to remain open 24/7. So I thought, ‘OK, if we’re going to be open till 4, why not stay open all the time to get the prepping done?’” “I wanted to max ZaLat Pizza, which is open until 4 a.m. ![]() Lindsey stumbled into the 24-hour model a few months after taking over the business. “I delivered pizza for Domino’s when I was 18, but that’s all the experience with pizza I had. “My background is customer service-centric,” Lindsey says. After three months of research, he settled on food. After getting laid off from a corporate job in early 2018, he decided he wanted to own a business. Michael Lindsey bought the restaurant in August 2018, changing the name from David’s Oak Cliff Pizza to Old Hag’s, in honor of his mother. Located in Oak Cliff, Old Hag’s adopted this 24/7 schedule back in January. If you find yourself with a late-night (or early-morning) pizza craving, Old Hag’s Pizza & Pasta is currently the only pizza place in DFW that is open 24 hours. ![]()
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