Rockets Pizza and Subs in Allied Gardens, San Diego serves NY-style thin crust pizza and fresh deli sandwiches from a counter-service storefront at 5151 Waring Road, the commercial spine of the neighborhood's small business district. Owner Steve launched the concept in 2015 after converting a comic book store called TC's Rockets into a pizza operation, and the hand-tossed dough is still made in-house from the same recipe that opened the kitchen. Whole pies, slices, and build-your-own options cover the pizza side, while the sandwich menu runs on fresh-baked bread prepped on-site. Waring Road connects Allied Gardens to the Kaiser Permanente Zion campus and the 8 freeway, and Rockets shares the neighborhood's dining traffic with sit-down restaurants anchored by Brothers Family Restaurant on adjacent blocks. A salad bar and vegan and vegetarian options widen the menu beyond the pizza-and-sub core, and family-sized pie orders run through DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub for delivery across the 92120 ZIP. The storefront doubles as a family business with a community-hub layout — casual seating, a parking lot, and curbside pickup — geared toward the residential foot traffic that defines Waring Road's retail character. Allied Gardens sits between the 8 freeway and SDSU to the south, and the neighborhood's mid-century residential grid generates a lunch crowd split between Kaiser workers, school parents, and retirees who treat the Waring Road strip as their main street. A post-dinner dessert run to Fosters Freeze on the same Allied Gardens corridor completes a meal-and-treat loop that keeps both businesses in the same evening's foot traffic. The hand-tossed crust holds a thin, foldable profile that distinguishes the pies from the thicker Sicilian and deep-dish formats offered at competing San Diego pizzerias, and specialty builds rotate alongside the classic pepperoni and margherita base.