Miller’s Food Good To Go

Millers has the best pizza in Esperance. Unfortunately, it’s the only pizza in Esperance.
Miller’s has a side business which caters barbecues, pig roasts and BBQ chicken.
If you live in Esperance and you want food but you don’t want to cook or drive 60 minutes round trip to the closest pizza place then Miller’s Food Good To Go is really your only option. The Hillview Tavern also apparently has a food menu, but after living in Esperance for five years, I’ve never ventured over there.
This pizza place is the result of hiring pizza cooks who have never worked in a pizza kitchen. Pizza is an art form. Making good pizza is more than the sum of its parts. Sure you can throw flour, water and yeast in that big dough machine they have and come out with something that looks like pizza dough, but there is so much more to it than that.
The pizzas we have received from Miller’s is the result of having the ingredients but having none of the skill. For some reason, the pizza cooks at Miller’s lubricate the bottom of the pizza box with cracked black pepper. A LOT of pepper. Miller’s also sells pizzas that are made by people that do not know how to make pizza. At Miller’s, the pizza cooks stretch the dough unevenly until it tears, then places it on the pizza pan, and then puts toppings on it. Then it goes in the oven until the cheese melts, and then it goes into the pizza box pepper bath. With holes through the bottom of the crust.
Because the dough is uneven, the dough does not get cooked fully which means you are served raw pizza dough. This, I assume, is one of the first lessons a real pizza cook is taught. But since no one in the kitchen at Miller’s has ever cooked a pizza professionally who will teach them how to cook one?
Now in all fairness, this was brought to the attention of the staff, and the owner, Mr. Miller, told me «Sorry about that, next time you call in, tell them I owe you a free pizza.»
While I was in there on a Friday night, I was surprised to learn that Miller’s delivers. But that night while I was there correcting our confused order, the phone was ringing off the hook from Miller’s customers who had gotten the wrong order dropped off at their house by the deliveryman, Mr. Miller was apologizing to the people on the phone offering them a free pizza next time as well. It was a frustrating scene to watch while being a customer, but even more frustrating I can imagine while being the owner.
Now that Hannaford has opened up almost within sight of Miller’s Food Good To Go, the game has changed. Hannaford has a full deli, institutional salads and fried chicken. Hannaford also has frozen and fresh pizza which does not have raw dough nor holes through the crust.
Miller’s Food Good To Go HAS GOT TO STEP UP THEIR GAME. Preferably they need to hire a real pizza chef.
Now it’s been more than six months and I haven’t claimed that free pizza and I don’t know that I ever will.