What happened to Little Caesars Pizza?

There used to be a Little Caesars truck that would drive around selling pizza. Like the ice cream man.

Their pizza always sucked ass. The only difference has been in the slight increase in quality among the other chains.

They partnered up with Kmart and focused on that. Then, Kmart had its downfall. Little Caesars could probably revive its business, maybe make frozen pizzas. IIRC, they'd give you an extra container of the tomato sauce, which I liked. I like simple pizzas, just pepperoni and cheese.

I pity people who live outside the northeast US and can't get decent pizza. Especially Chicago.

Little Caesar’s is ghetto

Chicago pizza is better than NY hands down.

I actually got their Italian Crazy Bread with their Crazy sauce a few months ago and really liked it. I hadn't had anything from them in years. I'd get it again. I don't think I'd get any of their pizzas, though. They don't look right.

[quote] They don't look right.

In what ways?

R8, something about them looks cheap and bargain basement to me, like they're just a step above the pizza my middle school served.

Thank you, The Vulture at R9.

You pity Chicago, R4???

The deep dish and stuffed pizza crap is what tourists eat. There are great local pizza shops all over the city.

Honey, you sound like someone who has never been outside of your elitist little bubble. Get out more, bitch!

Well, it was cheap ($5 or so) and sold at Kmart, so I think you have to dial your expectations accordingly.

Kroger heat 'n' eat in-store pizzas are better that Little Caesar's, and that's pitiful.

Little Caesars pizza is fine if you have six dollars to spend on pizza. It's pizza. Hard to mess that up.

Deep dish is gross. Fat Whore appetizer.

Boston Pizza should get more love. There's actually a lot of good pies in beantown. Yes, I'm serious.

Pies.

That stuffed crazy bread is good.

There's profit to be had in poor fat whores who are either too lazy or too time-constrained to cook.

Believe it or not, it used to be really good back in the 80’s and 90’s. I’m not sure what happened, but it tastes like total shit now. I think it might have something to do with the cheese (poor quality and not enough).

No, R19. Your tastes have simply advanced since then.

I worked for a company that liked to reward us with this shit. It’s the cheapest, crappiest pizza you can buy and we were supposed to act all grateful and excited when they would bring it in. They didn’t even buy enough for everyone to get a piece. Cheap fuckers.

Costco pizza is also cheap and not good. You’re not fooling anyone “treating” them to Costco pizza.

It's good if you are low on funds. If you order online you can get a pepperoni pizza, stuffed crazy bread, and a 2 liter soda for $10.46

^^^ I picked it up Friday night and I had leftovers I ate Saturday so 2 meals for $10.46 is pretty good.

Of course it is not high end pizza, but it's good for what it is.

If I had to choose my favorite pizza it would be the mom and pop place pizza place I normally go to. But Little Sleazer's once in awhile is fine with me.

OP's question is embarrassing! One would never ask DL about pizza that wasn't authentically authentic and tasteful. I'm beside myself.

For shitty, chain pizza, I would absolutely choose Little Ceasar's over Dominoes or Pizza Hut. As long as it's relatively fresh (ask to look at it or say you'll wait while they make one for you, or order before you go). Of course it's not great, but we're talking in the context of not great pizza. And it's cheap. Tip: IMO it's not reheatable or really that edible the next day. It just doesn't reheat well and gets hard and dry if you try to eat it cold and spongy and rubbery if you do reheat it.

Didn't the slogan used to be "Pizza Pizza" because you could buy TWO pizzas for 5 dollars?

r26 we visited my brother and wanted to get pizza for everybody and they chose Pizza Hut. It was expensive and awful, I would rather have Little Caesar's. The Pizza Hut dough felt like it wasn't cooked enough and the sauce was nasty and the cheese had an odd flavor and texture. As a kid in the 70's and 80's it used to be a treat to go to Pizza Hut.

R28 Yep, Pizza Hut is another place that fucked up their recipe. It’s just plain and greasy.

I didn't refrigerate the LC pizza, I put it in a ziploc and ate it room temperature the next day. My mom used to say I had a "cast iron" stomach because I can eat anything and not get sick so I know I shouldn't recommend that to others.

R19 is correct, it was better in the 80s-90s, they used to put cornmeal at the bottom of the pizza and use less oil, and it made it taste better. Pizza Hut pizza is vile, they started using frozen crust back in the late 90s early 00s.

I used to have this.

R32, you Ebay fat.

I went to a KMart once, high as fuck, to buy squirt guns and a pack of Uno. I saw this lady that was so fucking fat she looked like x2 Chrissy Metz as conjoined twins. She was walking out of a K-Mart with x2 Pizza-Pizzas.

I pointed at her to my friends and said "look - one for now - and ONE FOR NOW" and we bent over laughing. She heard us. I felt bad. But she still took both pizzas to her small Gremlin type car. That poor vehicle nearly flipped over when she got inside from the weight.

[quote]What happened to Little Caesars Pizza?

Well …

[quote]They used to be legit rivals to Dominos and Pizza Hut. Then they changed over to just selling those five dollar pizzas.

Kinda sums it up! Thanks for being a pal, OP.

I like you, R34.

r34 should be in jail like Seinfeld and friends in the last episode. just kidding but it's sad she heard you.

I don't know if anything "happened". I remember eating Little Caesar's in the 90s and thinking it tasted like cheap crap. They've always been a cheap, bare minimum pizza place.

Domino's is the only one of the cheap national pizza brands that has improved over time. Their recipe and menu revamp about 10 or 15 years ago was actually successful at pulling them out of the absolute bottom of the bunch. It's still not as good as a local pizzeria, but it's serviceable at least. I've never had much Little Caesar's, but they've always seemed about the same level of bad over time to me. PIzza Hut has definitely plummeted in quality over the last few decades.

I like their cheap 5$ pizzas. Domino’s does way too much virtue signaling and I don’t know why they advertise so much. I thought they were way ahead of these other guys. Now I just thought of all the chains delivering that didn’t before so I guess they should be advertising.

R22, I agree that Costco pizza is vile.

Didn’t they practically invent BOGO with their “pizza pizza” shtick? It tastes like cardboard. Round Table only!

Trader Joe's sells good frozen pizza.

I am one who’s never had a bad pizza. I like it like I like fresh corn-on-the-cob, it is just good.

Pizza Hut had a better jingle

Is Papa John's national or regional? I like their crust the best - and I guess overall (for a chain).

But their CEO is/was such an asshole. Somebody told me he stepped down so I just tell myself that -- he was dead-set against raising the minimum wage and he was Trumpster or something vile.

R46 It’s national and yes they got rid of that asshole. So it’s OK to eat again.

I thought Domino's was the pizza with the asshole on all the commercials.

Well, you thought wrong, bucko.

It tastes like crap!

The independent local pizzerias are the way to go. When all else fails, Domino's is not terrible, and they have some decent specials. Stay away from their sandwiches though - they suck!

In the early 90s, my former boyfriend's mother used to get two of their pizzas for an informal Sunday dinner for us and his brother, which we would eat in her breakfast room. The pizza was okay and it's a good memory of that relationship.

I've sometimes wished that I could get Little Caesar's pizza these days.

I loved Little Caesars' Bigfoot from 1993.

[quote] She heard us. I felt bad.

Gratifying that you had some empathy, R34.

Since Little Ceasers sales hot readymade pizzas of better quality why are frozen pizzas still a thing?

[quote] which we would eat in her breakfast room.

Did she have a breakfast nook?

[quote] Did she have a breakfast nook?

It was a charming corner room with windows on two sides. (S. Pasadena)

If he had so much goddamned empathy he wouldn't have made the crappy comment in the first place to score points with his friends. Poor woman.

r46, I agree with you about Papa John's crust. It' the best out of the big 3 (Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa). I like Pizza Hut's pizza the best but the crust has always SUCKED. Dominos is a happy medium because Papa John's seems to charge gourmet prices now, while Dominos maintains the 2 for $15 type of price range deals that have made pizza delivery an affordable trashy weekend dinner.

Ideally, I could have Pizza Hut Pizza, on Papa John's dough, with Domino's pricing and availability.

Little Caesars is shit. Will fill you up if hungry but is the worst of the bunch. And don't you dare let it get cold before you dig in because it doesn't not take well to reheating. Had much better pizza at Sam's, Costco's, hell even Target.

r55 frozen pizzas are for days I don’t want to go out or even see a delivery person.

i tried the pizza again. Flavorless. Dominos is much better. With the app or an account, you can get a large pizza to go at dominos for $7.99. or two items like a medium pizza and chicken parmesean sandwich for $13 total if you pick up. Then they are giving a $3 coupon to use in the next week. This only works if you pick up the order yourself--if you have it delivered, add on an extra $8.

I worked at Little Caesars when I was in college and at least in the location I was working, the management was good. Everything was frozen back then and I doubt it's changed. It's not bad for chain pizza.

Dominoes is awful. I mean, they're all some form of awful or not-good, but Dominoes is especially ugh.

If anyone wants good chain pizza, do you have a Marco's?

Papa John's is way too sweet. The crust is sweet, the sauce is sweet. Blech. I realize it's all relative and none of this is health food, but I prefer less sweet pizza - even from the big chains. But I can see sweetness being "flavor" to some people - like if it's not sweet, then to them the pizza has no flavor.

Marco's is okay IMO.

"Since Little Ceasers sales hot readymade pizzas of better quality why are frozen pizzas still a thing?"

1. Because not everyone thinks that.

2. Because you can store frozen pizza and have it on hand without having to get delivery or go out and get it.

Damn people are lazy. I'd rather drive five minutes and get a fresh Little Caesars than to eat a frozen one. Even when I'm high as shit. Also, I wish LC would bring back the cinnamon crazy bread. That shit was the BEST pizza place dessert I've had other than Godfather's dessert pizza.

[quote]What happened to Little Caesars Pizza? They used to be legit rivals to Dominos and Pizza Hut. Then they changed over to just selling those five dollar pizzas.

Those seven brain cells have so much to ponder, huh, OP?

Zzzzzzzzzaaaaap.

Six.

[quote]Papa John's is way too sweet. The crust is sweet, the sauce is sweet.

This was everyone's complaint about Numero Uno pizzas back in the 90s. I wonder if Papa John's uses the same "recipe."

Mazzios anyone?

LC is still a legit "rival" to Pizza Hut and Dominoes. Not a rival for the top spot, as they're third in stores and income. But they're big part of the market and obviously take business away from the top two.

[quote] If anyone wants good chain pizza, do you have a Marco's?

No Marco's near me.

Where are LC pizza places? I've never heard of them.

LC = Little Ceasars

Oh, lol!

R76, I could have been less lazy and typed it out though.

We used to get the Little Caesars pizza pizza as a kid in the 80s. It was a treat on a Friday night. It tasted great to me but my taste buds have changed since then like someone else has said. When I discovered better mom and pop pizza I stopped eating the crap from LC, PH, and Dominoes. I don’t think I’ve eaten pizza from the cheap companies in 30 years. The only thing I like from Little Caesars is their crazy bread. It’s delicious! Unfortunately, I don’t have a Little Caesars near by.

My family ran a road trip from the Midwest to Disneyland back in the early 80s. When we got to California, my mom was eager to try a Little Caesar's that was near our hotel because she had heard how great they were. I do remember that when we got there, the setting was more of a fun, urban restaurant atmosphere than I would have guessed. Ultimately, though, the pizza was not that good, and we all thought we were better off going to the Pizza Hut back home.

R79 I’m surprised the Little Caesar’s you went to has a place to sit down and eat. Even in the 80’s and 90’s the restaurants were carry out only in my town.

This one was on the outskirts of Disneyland, so I would guess it was more tourist-oriented than the average. There was a jukebox, video games, and even a comic book rack in the lobby.

R81 Yeah even low cost chains tend to put a little extra work into their tourist area ones. I remember thinking it was amazing when I went to a two-story KFC in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Is it any good?

No, but it’s hot and ready. Two out of three ain’t bad!

[quote] Since Little Ceasers sales hot readymade pizzas of better quality why are frozen pizzas still a thing?

Sadly, we don’t all live in, say, Des Moines, IA.

Don't order from Dominos. They contribute to Operation Rescue.

Mellow Mushroom is good!

Here in Seattle an 11 inch Pagliacci pizza is twenty three dollars.

I'm in Boston and my favorite chain pizza is Papa Ginos'.

Grew up eating it and still love it. Try finding one though.....

We also Pizzeria Regina, the original one is in the North End.

They branched out with satellite locations in malls and such. Didn't work. The original location is still very good, the others not so much.