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Standing at the Counter at 1444 Third Street Promenade: What the TMNT Pizzeria Moment Means for You Under California Law You are standing in the soft-launch crowd at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria at 1444 Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The menu is in your hand. A slice runs $6.50 to $9.00. A whole pie runs $39 to $54 — the "Splinter's Supreme" and the "Rocksteady's Meat Smash" top out at fifty-four dollars for a single pizza. Across the restaurant, a line of people is photographing the menu with their phones. On the way out, you check your phone and see that the same images are blowing up on X and Reddit — one user called the pricing "highway robbery," another said "they're on f—n' drugs," another said the licensing overhead alone proves the pizzeria is "just charging for the name." The pizza, several reviewers said, was "legit." The rage was not about the pizza. It was about the price for the pizza, in a year when a gallon of milk costs what it costs and a family of four went to the Promenade for a normal day and is now staring at a fifty-four-dollar check for a…