@Taweret@octodon.social I know the owner of a local pizza place. Several years ago he told me that he wanted to move to Arizona and open a pizza place there, but was put off because he visited places there where he couldn't see what they were doing wrong to cause whatever problem he had with their pizza. It's established that replicated food is not considered as good so it could be an ingredient issue. Maybe Bajor doesn't have good cheese?
@caprimoon @Taweret@octodon.social Opinions seem mixed. Neelix had problems specifically with cheese. That might just be Neelix being awful, but I think I'm going to stick with the view that you can't get good cheese from Bajor (they're probably making it but not exporting it to the station since food shortages were still a problem on the planet and pizza cheese can be produced quickly for safer and easier distribution and storage vs. milk).
@caprimoon @Taweret@octodon.social And DS9 doesn't suffer from those finicky biological computer components, so yeah, that's probably workable. You'd need a pretty decent sized space to make it work at restaurant scale but that doesn't seem to be an issue.
@neal @Taweret
But if you can get decent replicated water buffalo milk you can just make fresh mozzarella on the station. Neelix wouldn't be able to manage this for Neelix reasons but mostly because he's never had fresh mozz.