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# Crispy Chicken at Susie Q's Pizza
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/hayward-susie-q-s-pizza-crispy-chicken/
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:25:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T14:25:37.000Z
- Description: Crispy chicken, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, choice of sauce (buffalo, honey garlic, bbq, mango habanero, korean bbq or mayo) on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 69, very good. At Susie Q's Pizza, Hayward.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [Susie Q's Pizza](https://onesandwich.com/hayward-susie-q-s-pizza/), a restaurant in Hayward, California.

Hoagie RollPickle (cucumber)OnionTomatoLettuceCheese (generic)ChickenHoagie Roll

**69**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +21.

Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

**Holding the summit:** a finished composition

Balance

97

Harmony

92

Contrast

96

Structure

100

Focus

100

Composition

51

Quality

100

Envelope

99

More acid than 90% of the catalog.

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100\. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

**hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place)**, served cold: crispy chicken; cheese; lettuce; tomato; onions; pickles; choice of sauce (buffalo, honey garlic, bbq, mango habanero, korean bbq or mayo).

## Balance

salt1.9 · 84thacid1.6 · 90thfat1.4 · 21stsweet0.5 · 63rdumami1.6 · 57thheat0.1 · 50thbitter0.1 · 54th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.9   | 84th               |
| acid   | 1.6   | 90th               |
| fat    | 1.4   | 21st               |
| sweet  | 0.5   | 63rd               |
| umami  | 1.6   | 57th               |
| heat   | 0.1   | 50th               |
| bitter | 0.1   | 54th               |

**97** Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

## What each layer brings

| Layer                                                                            | Role    | Flavor and texture                      | Points     |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place)                                    | bread   | soft crusty                             | the frame  |
| crispy chickenscored as Chicken                                                  | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender        | **+7**     |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic)                                                 | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey  | **+2**     |
| lettuce                                                                          | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+6**     |
| tomato                                                                           | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+6**     |
| onionsscored as Onion                                                            | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **−3**     |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber)                                               | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled     | **+6**     |
| choice of sauce (buffalo, honey garlic, bbq, mango habanero, korean bbq or mayo) |         |                                         | not scored |

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

## Pairings

- **Chicken + Pickle (cucumber)**: fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too

[All the sandwiches at Susie Q's Pizza](https://onesandwich.com/hayward-susie-q-s-pizza/) · [The menu this was read from](https://susieqspizza.com/hayward-hayward-susie-q-s-pizza-food-menu?ref=onesandwich.com) · [Build your own in the Sandwich Builder](https://onesandwich.com/builder/)

Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.