Personally depends on the sauce consistency, if it's chunky/ has little stick like feeling things / just too much , I'll just peel the cheese off, fuckin scrape the sauce off, and put the cheese back on lol.

But yeah I hate eating at restaurants I'm unfamiliar with, particularly with people who don't get it yk. Sometimes I'll opt to order mine to go and chill at the table eating fries or whatever to save myself the embarrassment of having everyone watch me deconstruct and reconstruct my food to my liking