It was a way to get a bigger pizza pie.
A hungry cook has pizzamongers on edge after revealing a sneaky way to steal a piece of a customer’s pie without them noticing.
He detailed his surreptitious slice-swiping method in a TikTok video with over 3.4 million views.
The bizarro food tutorial shows TikTok user and pizza pro Jay Ryan removing a ‘za out of an oven and putting it on the counter.
The cheese thief then sneakily swipes a strip out of the middle with a pizza cutter, before seamlessly merging the remaining halves back together so it seems like nothing’s amiss.
The clip concludes with Ryan holding the pilfered piece up to the camera and proclaiming that it’s his “dinner.”
All the while, the Bad Girls Club song “How Will They Know” can be heard fittingly playing in the background.
The commentariat was none too thrilled with the prospect of pizzeria employees heisting their dough with many dealing his swipe-hack akin to common thievery — no matter how one slices it.
“It’s called the driver’s slice,” claimed one commenter, to which another responded, “called stealing.”
A third wrote, “I don’t want mine cut now.”
“So that’s why I’m able to eat two pizzas now,” quipped one TikTok wit of the purported pizza tax.
Other viewers compared the hack to an episode of the British American cartoon series “The Amazing World Of Gumball,” in which Richard Watterson similarly skims slices from the middle of the pie.
Meanwhile, others swore off Pizza Jay Ryan’s pie shop forever.
According to Ryan’s TikTok page, the Margherita maverick works at a pizzeria called Brooklyn Joe’s in Punta Gorda, about 24 miles northwest of Fort Meyers.
The link on his page is broken, but a similar web address links back to said pizzeria while one of Ryan’s other videos shows a wall with “Brooklyn Joe’s” painted on it.
The Post reached out to the shop for comment.