They don't do alot right, but pizza and bagels - they own.
We have some surprisingly good pizza joints in Albuquerque, most, it seems, owned by expat NYC guys. The key is the number of restaurants... they all have ONE location. Try to get too big and the magic is lost.
A great native pizza place (voted best in the City) is down the hill from me in Tijeras proper next to Molly’s Cantina. Trail Rider Pizza... one oven in a single wide on a dirt lot. Advertized as “The best smelling trailer in the world”.
I have never understood pizza chauvinism. I’ve eaten plenty of New York pizza. Nothing special about it. Like anywhere else, it all depends on the pizzeria.
As a rule, I think pizza chauvinists are usually compensating for municipal inferiority complexes. Present company excepted, of course.