Chase credit cards often have offers for 25% cash back. You have to click and add them to your account. Also, Wonder have first account coupon codes and ongoing going codes for 40 to to 50% with max of $20 off. This is pretty much the only shop I have been doing this year. Totally worth the time.

Lucky, I have only been able to grab one. They haven't really posted any more since last month in my area. They went fast.

They killed the fast fine plus version this month, and the fast fine is now just the three pizza places.

I have one for later this month and my friend has another for this Saturday. We’ll do the first and decide whether it’s worth it to have just a pizza night again this month or whether we’ll cancel. I will argue that I not get penalized for canceling when they changed the assignment. I don’t eat many carbs normally and the three options offer such limited menus. I was really looking forward to ordering shortrib.

The list of fast casual is only 2 places too. Wtf is all I can think every time I see that (non-)list. I don’t understand what is happening with this client but I may be done with them for a long while.

Btw, if you can get it, the brookie is great. I searched and found a store that sells it too.

Next40 is a code that works if you did new customer offers already. Not sure if it is max $15 or $20.
ETA - it is $20 max but expires 6/7.

I cancelled. They promised me steaks and switched it to unappealing pizza the day before. As I interpret the guidelines, you can still get the short rib as long as you hit the minimum ordering requirements for the pizza. I mathed it out, and even getting the cheapest two pizzas, app, and drink, it still came out to $50 after tax, no tip. With a coupon, maybe, but this is too much work and food I don't want for a job that doesn't even pay. The MSC has a cancel button you can use three times per year without consequences.

Wow. You're right. I do like the original De Fara pizza so will still try. Not sure how good it will be from wonder though.

Just looked through the Alanza. There is a steak entree. Nevermind. Alanza PIZZA is what they're requiring.

I have just looked at the Guidelines. Alana Pizza is the name of the restaurant. Same with Di Fara Pizza and Detroit Brick Pizza Co. I do not see a requirement to only order Pizza.

The guidelines explicitly say "2 orders of DIFFERENT entrees" and nowhere does it say "entree = Pizza". I plan on ordering other stuff (not pizza at all). Alanza has many pasta dishes, and I plan on ordering at least one of them.

NJ is known for local pizza shops. I doubt Wonder can compete with them on pizza.

Be careful; Alanza and Alanza Pizza are two seperate restaurants! Alanza Pizza is fast fine, but Alanza was fast fine plus on the old guidelines.

Thank you. I didn't realize that there are two different Alanza listings. Alanza Pizza is indeed just pizza. So, it looks like pizza, pizza, or pizza for me next week. I am not thrilled, but I plan on doing it.

@FeelinSassie wrote:

Be careful; Alanza and Alanza Pizza are two seperate restaurants! Alanza Pizza is fast fine, but Alanza was fast fine plus on the old guidelines.

There are chicken tenders at one of the 3 and a few uninspiring salads. I think I may order several brookies with my discount code money and whatever I don’t spend on 2 pizzas and an antipasto. Funny was that when I read the email about the change, my first reaction was “yay, Chinese”. Then I looked at guidelines and saw that kin house was not listed. I am not sure why I haven’t cancelled already other than the chance to stock up on brookies.

Alanza use to be fast fine. When they came up with fine plus, they moved it up. Alanza Pizza was under casual and it’s now in the pizza tier. I’d love to order a 3rd entree from a different place but I am afraid to risk the whole thing being kicked for that.

Anyone else wonder why we need to order drinks when they are prepackaged? Why do I need $1.75 cans of soda?

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Di Fara is gone from Wonder. I checked different locations. The original Di Fara is the bomb but I doubt the Wonder version were the same. I will still be doing mine. Free food is free food. $20 from the coupon will make the compensation $80 plus $15 cash back from Chase card.

My guess is nobody was ordering pizza and they need those restaurants evaluated. My first go to is Kin House too and then Srirapha.

Di Fara is still at the Wonder in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Hey neighbor! I’m doing Marlton this time around. Maybe… I just realized my location is set for Cherry Hill so I need to check on other location.

@myst4au wrote:

Di Fara is still at the Wonder in Cherry Hill, NJ.

I went to my friend’s to try the pizza from her shop today. I didn’t love the Detroit Brick pizza. She ordered a bbq chicken pizza for me and they made it using breaded tenders. Very odd. I was picturing the one from CPK (miss that shop and local restaurant) or even the frozen ones from the grocery store. Those all use grilled chicken. The meat lovers was better but overall, too much bread for my taste. The chicken tender starter was good though. If I keep my shop, I will order from Alanza or diFara’s.

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Now this have me wondering if this batch of pizza shops are worth it. I also read bad reviews on Google about Alanza pizza. The pics of pizzas even on the Wonder menu doesn't look that good.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2026 04:22PM by hksh1.

The Alanza pizzas I had in the past were ok. We tried the pesto bacon once and the white pizza. They are very small compared to what you’d get at a pizzeria. They are priced right. I am still debating what to do with mine for next week. We have not tried diFara’s yet and the chicken tenders under Detroit were very good.

I’m kind of hoping we get another mid-month change of guidelines tbh. How many pizza reviews do they need? I just found it very misleading that the Detroit pizza co is actually only available at Wonder. That pizza was much too doughy for me but I am on a low carb diet so I don’t do more than one roll (if even a whole one) at TXRH. Sometimes I miss being really fat and eating whatever was available.

@hksh1 wrote:

Now this have me wondering if this batch of pizza shops are worth it. I also read bad reviews on Google about Alanza pizza. The pics of pizzas even on the Wonder menu doesn't look that good.

I asked and was told that the entire order has to be for the pizza places. I argued that it should be removed without penalty because it wasn't what I signed up for, but I was just told to self-unassign. I'd rather use my three cancellations for times when I actually can't make a shop, so I'll just bring the pizza into work where someone will eat it.

@FeelinSassie wrote:

As I interpret the guidelines, you can still get the short rib as long as you hit the minimum ordering requirements for the pizza.

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The guidelines were just updated again today and alas the required pizza places remain the same, along with the ordering requirement:

Minimum Ordering Requirements:
FAST CASUAL / FAST FINE LUNCH and DINNER:
*You are required to place your order ONLY from the restaurants listed above.
Burgers and/or Pizzas (Please order different items if dining with a guest.)
Beverage of your choice.

Fast fine also has Daba (Indian), Kin House (Chinese), SriPra (Thai), and Tejas (bbq).

In the new guidelines? I just pulled them up and only see the pizza places. Until mid-May they had more. I did a fast fine at a different location in May and got kin house and Tejas. So the change is very disappointing.

When they added fine plus (now removed I think), they moved stuff around. I bought from Alanza pizza for a casual shop months back. I have the old list and they moved several others around. Or would have based on the version of the list from early May. So disappointing…

@Niner wrote:

Fast fine also has Daba (Indian), Kin House (Chinese), SriPra (Thai), and Tejas (bbq).

Only the 3 previously listed pizza brands are permitted right now. I am doing one today.

@Niner wrote:

Fast fine also has Daba (Indian), Kin House (Chinese), SriPra (Thai), and Tejas (bbq).

Yeah, still just pizza and burgers this weekend. I'd rather save my cancellations from when I really need them so I'm just going to order a pizza, take the photos, and drop it off with a family member who is always eager for an easy free meal to feed her daughter. I'll take home the desserts!

If you didn’t do it already, Detroit has really excellent chicken tenders. And yes, the desserts are great. I particularly love the Killer Brownie Brookie. The mozzarella sticks from Alanza are actually good too.

@NinS wrote:

Yeah, still just pizza and burgers this weekend. I'd rather save my cancellations from when I really need them so I'm just going to order a pizza, take the photos, and drop it off with a family member who is always eager for an easy free meal to feed her daughter. I'll take home the desserts!

If anyone has glanced at the online comments about Wonder they're pretty negative both in regards to the food quality and the concept, which a lot of people fear could impact locally owned restaurants or "real" food halls that can't compete with Wonder's venture capital/private equity-funded marketing and real estate budget:

Here's how the food is made, from a NY Times article:

Its kitchens don’t require gas-powered stoves and exhaust systems to vent cooking fumes, making for cheaper, quicker build-outs. Everything on the Wonder menu is designed to be cooked using three pieces of electric equipment: a hot water bath, a rapid-cook oven, and a fryer.

During a visit to Parsippany in January, Mr. Shlossman took me to see Wonder’s research and development center, a series of gleaming test kitchens staffed with dozens of professional cooks clad in Wonder-branded chef’s whites.

Wonder prepares and in many cases, par-cooks, all of its menu items in large commissary facilities, then distributes the dishes individually portioned to its restaurants, where employees can finish the preparation in a matter of minutes, with little cooking skill required. This allows the restaurants to be staffed by what Mr. Lore calls “lightly trained labor.”

A small team of chefs demonstrated how a variety of items on Wonder’s menus are cooked. Pasta alla vodka from Wonder’s Alanza menu (theme: Italian American comfort food) is heated in a rapid-cook oven for 4 minutes and 30 seconds. A strip steak from Bobby Flay Steak cooks for 6 minutes on a polymer tray that Wonder’s engineers say mimics the surface of a cast iron skillet.

That's horrible eight different ways! I had suspicions, so thanks for confirming. "A strip steak ... cook[ed] ... on a polymer tray" sounds like a dystopian future I don't want to enable.