What is your favorite chain delivery pizza and what do you order?

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tokie

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Put your dog in the back yard and go pick up. Paying for delivery plus having to tip the driver is such a waste of money.

You know you are supposed to tip like a civilized person to the hostess when picking up your pizza...
 

mnewsham

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anyone who thinks pizza hut is real pizza and papa john's is shit needs to eat some real fucking pizza.

all im saying.
 

SamQuint

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I love Round Table but the one near my house sucks

There is a mini round table in a Von's market that is the best Round Table I have ever had. They also sell pizza by the slice there. So damn good!
 
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Of the chains I've eaten within the last two years
1. Pizza Hut (good)
2. Cici's and Papa Johns tied (mediocre)
3. Mr Jims (garbage)
 

Baked

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I like Costco pizza from their food court, but they don't do delivery though. For delivery, I get Dominos.
 

dud

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Pizza Snobs in

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So opinions aren't allowed anymore?

I make my own pizzas because I cannot guaranty the quality/composition of "chain" pizzas ... and mine taste better too. My son used to work for a pizza "chain". He would sometimes bring home pizza at the end of his shift. One night I conducted an experiment ... I took a pice and laid it on a number of paper towels and waited. After anhour the paper towels were half saturated with oil/grease from the clice. That doesn't count the pool of grease under the slice in the box that I removed it from.
 

IndyColtsFan

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I worked late yesterday and looked for carry out pizza deals. Decided on a $8 3 topping large from Dominoes. There was nothing "new" about it. It was pathetic, cardboard textured, non-seasoned crap. The local pizza hut & papa johns are far superior.

Yeah, my wife was sick of me ordering Papa John's all the time so I got Domino's recently and was shocked how bad it was. I used to really like them.
 

CZroe

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You know you are supposed to tip like a civilized person to the hostess when picking up your pizza...

No you aren't. Wait and delivery staff are sometimes paid less than minimum wage due to tips creating a performance-based opportunity to earn more. Register jockeys spent a fraction of the time a server would've spent on you and your order and did far less for your enjoyment of it. Tip jars and receipt tip lines at burger joints and fast-casual places are not used to make up for wages and are just there for you to use if you want to with far less implied obligation. You wouldn't tip the clerk at a department or grocery store. For carryout it would be more appropriate to tip the cook if you were "supposed" to tip someone.

Of the chains I've eaten within the last two years
1. Pizza Hut (good)
2. Cici's and Papa Johns tied (mediocre)
3. Mr Jims (garbage)

In what world is Cici's not garbage? Mr. Jim's must be toxic.
 

IndyColtsFan

Lifer
Sep 22, 2007
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You know you are supposed to tip like a civilized person to the hostess when picking up your pizza...

No, you're not. I don't tip the lady at McDonald's when I pick up my Egg McMuffin, so why would I tip some cashier who hands me my pizza?
 

CraigRT

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If I am ordering pizza for delivery, it has been forever by the way. I order Pizza Hut.
They are very fast, the location is close to me, and the pizza is perfect greasy takeout.
 

thestrangebrew1

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My vote goes to Roundtable. I love their buffet too. Salad bar isn't all that great, but they usually have some great pizzas on the counter, not just your plain pepperoni or cheese pizzas. Runner up goes to Mountain Mike's.
 

tokie

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No, you're not. I don't tip the lady at McDonald's when I pick up my Egg McMuffin, so why would I tip some cashier who hands me my pizza?

Do you tip your drycleaner when they give you your shirts back? Do you tip the blind person in the bathroom handing you a towel?

It doesn't matter whether or not people get paid less than minimum wage...
 

Cerb

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Aug 26, 2000
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Little Caesars, but they're all in bad parts of town, and don't deliver where I am, so it's just the occasional impulse pizza. I will eat Pizza Hut deep dish, or a not too funky Papa Johns, if someone else paid for it. Beyond that, I'm all about pizza snobbery.
 

SheHateMe

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Jul 21, 2012
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Pizza Papalis or Jet's Pizza when I'm in Detroit.


Everywhere else...I don't order pizza. I go get some wings.
 

DAPUNISHER

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Having a kid that has friends over to spend the night, I have gotten familiar with chain pizza.

Quality must vary significantly between areas. Here, Pizza Hut is the worst pizza, by far. They could just put their low grade toppings on the cardboard box and it would have a similar flavor to what they do now. Dominos would definitely win most improved over the last couple of years. Papa John's I have not tried, so cannot comment.

I personally prefer the frozen California Kitchen pizzas to any of the big chains though. And if not entertaining spend more and go to Ryan's in Cocoa Village now. Never enjoyed making pizza, feel like it is too much work for the finished product. If I was more experienced at it, I might be fast enough to change my mind.
 

Saint Nick

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I quit ordering from popular chains. Each time the pizza shows up, no matter from where, it is always cold and unappetizing looking. I stick to buying Red Baron frozen pizzas from the store and never looked back. They taste better and are more fresh.
 
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