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Local when available, but I usually end up going with chain.

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Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great piza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

Local. Definitely. In a wood burning oven. Thin crust. For the proverbial win.

Aaand, with my damn touchpad, I accidentally voted chain immediately after making my thread-stealing post. :headbang:

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great pizza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

Ah dammit, clicked the wrong option. Local, chain in a pinch, but god the quality is so much lower it's more likely I'd just eat something else.

Local, or make your own.

It depends on how much money I have; generally I'd take local though.

Depends. The Local pizza around here sucks, frankly. When the best local pizza has a pool of oil laying on the top, it's a problem. I mostly order from Gumby's, a chain based around college campuses.

Depends. The Local pizza around here sucks, frankly. When the best local pizza has a pool of oil laying on the top, it's a problem. I mostly order from Gumby's, a chain based around college campuses.

Pokey stix. Addicting. Yum.

One of the best pizza places in my home town closed last year. I move away to go to school, and they close after being open for... I think longer than I had been alive. :/ However, they are still selling frozen versions of their pizzas at a local grocery. It's definitely worth the drive to the other end of town. My gentleman-friend works at another local pizza place, which does pretty good lasagna, massive calzones, and from what I understand good pizza (I've never had their pizza... I was loyal to the other place).

However, here at school, no one really does local. :/ Local coffee places seem to fold as soon as they open, and we finally have a local-owned pizza place but I've been too broke to try it. We have a Mellow Mushroom, which I love, but it wasn't the same as the place from back home. Hopefully the new local pizza place here at school will be epic and will actually stay open.

Don't mind really, local i suppose.

Where's the "in between" option?

We don't really get many "nationwide chain" pizza makers around here (okay, so we do have Pizza Hut, but I don't think anybody would ever consider getting their pizza delivered from them), but it's not exactly "mom and pop" pizza makers either - AFAIK the ones we usually call have, like, three stores, here and in neighboring towns.

That, and we often enough make pizza ourselves, but that's a far cry from what one gets from the 'professionals', if you ask me - but don't let my flatmates and fellow pizzamakers hear that.

What about local chains? Chicago's full of them. The wife loves a particular local place, I could take it or leave it, preferring one of the local chains (at least, I think Nancy's is a local chain...it's been awhile and my brains kinda in a fog right now...)

'Course, I used to work at a Pizza Hut, so my standards are pretty low.

Local; great one nearby, and it's kept its quality for as long as I've eaten their pizzas.

Actually, there's not even much in the way of pizza chains here; there's a couple of ubiquitous chains for fast food in general, but not so much for pizza. Lots of local places - goes for most food - though.

Two of my flatmates work in Domino's, so we get enough free pizza.

Far too much, in fact.

Local, theres this place around here called Captains. They've been open for 11 years and they're quality has never gone down at all. So for me its local all the way.

It depends on my mood really. If local I go with Mama's Pizza, if Chain it's usually Pizza GoGo or Domino's.

However should I go for a takeawy I now go with mexican food. A gfreat place opened near campus and they use fresh ingredients. Their burritos are excellent and their tacos are delicious.

I'm so ordering a mexican takeawy when I get back to uni on Sunday.

Back home? Chains, they're better.

At college? I order from the on-campus pizzeria. See, they will deliver pizza to a specific room, anywhere on campus.

Two of my flatmates work in Domino's, so we get enough free pizza.

Far too much, in fact.

i hate you :)

Local -- either the place near my house or if I'm up near campus, I pick up a pizza at the Varsity, which has been there for something like 75+ years. (They at least been consistent for the 20 years I've lived around here.) I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a pizza at a chain.

I like making it, too. It's fun and easy and tasty.

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?While I usually buy a slice or two from Pizza Hut when waiting for the Train in Berlin, I prefer the pizzas in the Brasserie across the street from where I live. It's like a restaurant, though, not a pizzeria.

There really aren't any local pizzerias around here, but I definitely always take local when I can get it.

I hated almost everything about living in New Jersey, but I did love having an excellent (and cheap) local pizzeria within walking distance of my apartment. Yum. :)

Pokey stix. Addicting. Yum.

For the fucking win.

i hate you :)
Please, have some!

I eat far too many...

We have an exceptional local pizza parlor, Bambinelli's. I like theirs best as far as quality.

I will settle for less for delivered on stormy nights though, so Papa John's or Pizza Hut gets more of our orders.

Mellow Mushroom wins occassionally in our house my hubby loves theirs best, I think they suck. Oh well marriage is about compromise. :p

Chain pizzas. My favorite pizza place is now a chain. It's called stone hearth pizza.

Both

I grew up next to a Round Table that used to be a locally owned place and had a brick oven, so I thought chain pizzas were awesome, but for some reason other Round Tables weren't as awesome.

I do as much of my business as I can at locally owned places. In Santa Cruz that was easy to do because they hate chains. Local pizza is leaps and bounds better (and sometimes worse, but I only go to those places once...SF Pizza, bleh!). In general I'm an advocate for doing your business in the community.

we really don't have much in the way of local pizzaria's round here. we have italian restaurants, and their pizzas are way better than Domino's (who i usually use), but they don't deliver. and most probably don't do takeout, come to think of it.

besides, the best thing about Dominos is the ability to order online, so i don't even have to leave my fatass chair :D

I usually prefer local. Occasionally I will take chain, but the wuality is so much worse i often just pass.

There's a spot in my town called Piece's that does some of the best pizza by the slice I've ever had. Real flippin good, and one slice is a meal. Plus, they use pesto as a sauce on some pizza's...delicious.


Oh, and they're open till 2:30 in the morning on weekends...Great for late night pizza runs after the bars close.

local. They normally have far superior ingredients.

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great pizza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

OSU, by virtue of being a college, has the blessing of having a highly concentrated college student population, which leaves and breathes pizza. Thus, there are at least two top-notch local pizza places, such as Catfish Biff's and The Flying Pizza (which is technically a chain, but it doesn't even have ten stores, and the sign is hand painted on a gigantic piece of particle board.)

They've both been around since before history began, so it would seem that their quality level is locked in at maximum delicious.

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great pizza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

yes. I like local pizza, when it is not availible I go to the store, get ingredients, and make a pizza myself.
deepdish FTW
:mp5:
:sniper:

Local, or make your own.

for the fuckin win!!!!
This guy gets it!!!
:sniper:
:mp5:

Local or chain? Put your hands together:

Pizza Pagliacci in Seattle.

As for individual joints, I've never had a better slice than at Village Pizza in Roslyn, WA (just over the Cascades, it's where they filmed the TV show Northern Exposure). Any place where garlic is a topping, and when you ask for it, they say "light, medium or heavy?" is my idea of heaven. There's no dessert on the menu, but there are bottles of locally-produced honey at each table. That's because the crust is so good, you eat down to it and then for dessert, you squeeze some honey on the crusts and MMMmmm!

Also, the Roslyn Brewery is right across the street, and their dark lager is the best pizza accompaniment I've ever quaffed. *sigh* My college days in Ellensburg, how I miss them.

I always get local, but that's because there are no chain pizza restaurants in my neighborhood. But I once had Pizza Hut, and the local ones were better.

local only- I dont like chain pizza at all.

We have a great local pizza place- We get pizza from them 1/2 the time, the other 1/2 I make it myself.

I make my own dough and freeze it. Its a friday night tradition,especially during Lent.
The kids and I love making it almost as much as eating it.

A local chain. Lol, pizza paradox.

I only like double cheese pizzas, and it's hard to find them where I live.

For me it depends on what I'm in the mood for when I want to eat pizza.

Depends. Who has the best coupons this week? *right now it's Pizza Hut, but it'll be a local chain very soon*

A local chain. Lol, pizza paradox.

Not really. Seattle has Pagliacci, and Spokane has Pizza Pipeline (home of the three-foot-radius extra-mother-scratchin'-large).

Local is always better. More quality, friendlier, all around better then the big chains that are conquering the US.

As a side note, this (http://www.pepespizzeria.com/) is the best pizza there is. Anyone who disagrees deserves to be ostracized.

Not really. Seattle has Pagliacci, and Spokane has Pizza Pipeline (home of the three-foot-radius extra-mother-scratchin'-large).

Lou Malnati's and Nancy's in Chicago. Portillo's as well, but that's not pizza.

Lou Malnati's and Nancy's in Chicago. Portillo's as well, but that's not pizza.

Good call. I'd add Giordanos (for deep-dish) and Eduardos (for thin crust) to the list. There are a bunch of great small chains out there.

My local pizza places have been basically wiped out lately - bought out by clueless Chinese and Arab owners (not to blame the ethnicity there, but they just don't seem to *get* pizza). Three of my favorites are useless now, and one is just plain unsanitary. So, I'll bake one at home on occasion, or get a 5$ chain pizza when they're on special.

By the way, when I made this thread, my ordered pizzas had just arrived. I wanted to see how many of you I could get to have pizza too. How'd I do? :D

By the way, when I made this thread, my ordered pizzas had just arrived. I wanted to see how many of you I could get to have pizza too. How'd I do? :D

Pretty well. I think I'm gonna talk the wife into pizza tonight... we have a good local place nearby.

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great pizza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

Local. As in, from my kitchen local.

Seriously. If I want pizza, I make it myself. It's always good then.

By the way, when I made this thread, my ordered pizzas had just arrived. I wanted to see how many of you I could get to have pizza too. How'd I do? :D

Bit late for pizza here, but i'll have a drink or two.#
enjoy

Good call. I'd add Giordanos (for deep-dish) and Eduardos (for thin crust) to the list. There are a bunch of great small chains out there.


Heh, I would've mentioned Giordanos, but I wasn't sure how local it was. I had to google Lou Malnati's and Nancy's just to make sure they weren't national chains that I just didn't know about until we'd moved here. :D

We get our thin crust from a little joint called Nardi's. Good stuff. Wife doesn't like deep-dish, the heathen.

Eh, I live in NY. Of COURSE local pizza.

The best local spots in Atlanta do not deliver, and the ones that do are located too far from me for me to be in their delivery zone. So, if I feel like eating pizza out or picking it up, I go local. But if I don't feel like leaving my aprtment, I go with a chain. Usually Domino's.

Not really. Seattle has Pagliacci, and Spokane has Pizza Pipeline (home of the three-foot-radius extra-mother-scratchin'-large).

Three foot radius pizza? :eek:

I'd hate to be the guy who has to deliver that.

Almost always local. Chain pizzas tend to be shitty & cheaply made.

I only go to local if it is recommended by someone who I know has good taste in pizza. Local pizza can be the best pizza in the world, it can also be the worst. Chain pizza is almost always average.

Local chain pizza shops. :p

The closest real chain pizza shop is probably 30 minutes away, so we get local a lot more. That, and my gram owns a bar, so I get free pizzas from her. They're awesome and tasty. It really depends on if we feel like driving or not, and if mom gets pizza on her way home from work.

But yeah, cutting corners FTL. I've lost many loves that way. :(

Local, because the one local to me makes gluten free pizza. It costs a bomb though and really doesn't taste very good...

Eh, I live in NY. Of COURSE local pizza.

Thin crust, I hope.

Unfortunately I can't eat dairy or eggs. So this dilemma forces me to make homemade pizza's. Load em' up with oregano, basil, onions, mushrooms, and pasta sauce on a thin homemade crust.:D

Definitely local pizza. Back in Tel Aviv they had the best local pizzarias ever. I ate my first slice of pizza when I was 7 year old and it was delicious. :)

The pizza in the states aren't as great. Dominos, Papa Johns, etc are good, but not amazing. We have a store called Shakespeare's pizza, and while they're somewhat mediocre, they have a special pizza called peppercheese, which is the most amazing flavour of pizza, ever. :D

Local, it has oysters on it and lots of onions. While not the best ever pizza (I've made better) it is pretty good, and anytime I introduce it to someone they either hate it or love it. My girlfriend works for a chain and they have a spicy perogy pizza, it's good too. Taco pizza though..., fresh off/from work should be tasty too, should be walking in the door any second!

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great pizza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

Local, especially since one of my high school friends opened his own pizza place.

Local, hands down.

But we do have an Austin's Pizza which is a local chain. It's basically totally awesome pizza.

But Nikki's Pizza at the Dobe mall is the best pizza on the whole planet. The prices are also like 3.82 or whatever so it comes out to even bills and I don't get change back.

Greatest

pizza joint

ever.

Before i begin, i hate overgrown capitalism in the sense that if i had a country you would not be able to open two of the same store. i like independant business. now that you know my bias,

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL!!!

they actually care about business and make things great in order to compete. the food is personal, and delicious. this may just be my experience, but i have never had bad local pizza. i like pizza hut kinda, but they serve pepsi (ewwgross)...

Maybe i'm biased, maybe its the extra love locals put in it that makes it taste good!:)

Three foot radius pizza? :eek:

I'd hate to be the guy who has to deliver that.

Nah, it's fun! He straps on a harness and hang-glides it off the top floor, straight to your home. Seriously though, for being almost comically large, it's really quite good.

I don't eat pizza often. When I do, I usually like to make my own. Failing that, I go to California Pizza Kitchen.

Local. Specifically, Bravo in Boston and Napoli's or Bella's in Connecticut.

I usually eat at my aunt and uncle's Italian restaurant.

How would one classify pizzas made by a privately/family owned corporation but sold through national supermarkets? (http://www.amyskitchen.com/products/category_view.php?prod_category=3)

*selects "some kind of in between weirdness" poll option*

Even most chains are owned by local business owners.

Any person who has been to New York City will know that local pizzerias top any chain stores eight days of the week (twice on Sundays).

Unfortunately, I've only been to NYC once. And to my knowledge there are no local shops within driving distance here. So I must make do with Pizza Hut. :( *sighs*

The only pizza places I've been to that cater to both vegetarians and vegans have been local.

I wouldn't get chain pizza unless I was starving to death. Pizza is an art form. I don't want 16-year old kids sliding pre-made chain pizzas into ovens for me, I want real Italians giving each pie the individual attention it deserves. Greeks can usually do it pretty well too.

Local FTW!

Local is always better. More quality, friendlier, all around better then the big chains that are conquering the US.

As a side note, this (http://www.pepespizzeria.com/) is the best pizza there is. Anyone who disagrees deserves to be ostracized.

Connecticut's got the best pizza around, bar-none (well, perhaps except for Italy, but that goes without saying).

I grew up with Connecticut-style pizza. Back home in Port Aransas (Texas, oddly enough, though it's a tourist town), that's really all there was. This one place right on the beach, in particular, had the best in town, though it was more a lodge/bar than a pizza parlor.

See, this guy named Eddie from Connecticut (New Haven, if I recall correctly) ran the kitchen. He'd been cooking for decades, and everything was top-notch. Everything. But what was head-and-shoulders above all of the other stuff on the menu? The pizza. It was perfect. Fresh cheese, home-made sauce, fresh toppings... The works. He even put his own special blend of seasonings and cheeses in the dough, so it was that much richer.

It was the best. It still is, as he's holding on, healthy as ever (and about 80 years old, too). Makes me want to go back and have another right now.

pizza is Pizza. I love Pizza. Any chain or pizza place well do.

Thin crust, I hope.

Is there any other kind?

Local, definitely. For my money it's Zachary's Chicago Style Pizza in Berkeley/Oakland (disputed territory). I love a good deep dish that weighs about 10 pounds.

Local is the way to go I find most of the chains pizza are either too greasy not enough topping on them or not evenly distributed (a meat lovers pizza with all the salami only covering three slices). Whereas with most locals they are good pizzas maybe a bit more expensive but a hell of a lot nicer with more topping and tastes much more fresher than picking one up from say Pizza Hut.

In saying that through a few years ago I lived in a small country town that had 4 pizza shops 3 chain and one local, the local was great and I always had it while it cost about 25% more it was worth it and many many people would buy their pizzas from there. About two years before I left the original owner (owner for 45 years) sold off the shop and since that time the new owners have put up the prices and the quality has dropped both in the way it is made and the quality of the ingredients, and I along with many other people stopped buying our pizzas from there as it was poor. I now live in a much bigger city where I have a range of local pizza shops and will select which one depending on specials that they have and what I am in the mood for these places have gourmet pizzas and are well worth the extra cost usually about $2-$3

There is a particularly good local pizzeria called TJ's nearby, there used to be one named Bambino's that had the very best pizza sauce I ever got to enjoy.

I like to get pizza from PIzza Hut every now and again too.

Boston's Pizza is a total waste of time and money.

Local here... is not a good idea. The Japanese have some very strange ideas about what looks good on a pizza and will often times just add them to be nice. Attempting to order the special in Japan can be an interesting culinary experience that will probably get you toppings that include corn kernels, dried and shredded seaweed, whole crab claws, and possibly squid ink. Oh, and mayonnaise, which the Japanese insist is THE perfect thing to dip your pizza in.

You HAVE been warned!

Chain stores for me (Well, US) would be Pizza Hut about 45 minutes away, expensive, and with a lot of extras that I really don't want (Octopus is NOT a pizza topping!) and the closest Domino's is in Tokyo so...

Hand made (And I mean hand made, yeast for the dough and everything) is the order of the day. I'd kill for actual pepperoni though.

I'd kill for actual pepperoni though.

Thus begins "the Hormel caper".....
Is that a pepperoni in your pocket, or are you just glad to see us? ;)

Now we know what t send Nervun for Easter.

Now we know what t send Nervun for Easter.

*has a vision of NERVUN's apartment filled with cured meats*

*has a vision of NERVUN's apartment filled with cured meats*

Beautiful isn't it?

Do you prefer to order pizza from a national chain (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, etc.) or from local mom and pop pizzerias?

Seems like every time I find a really great local pizzeria, it never lasts. Within a few years, they start cutting corners and the consistent quality of their pizza becomes highly variable quality(sometimes great, sometimes lousy). On the other hand, national chains while inferior, are much more consistent. I'll never get a great pizza from Domino's, but I'll almost always get a good pizza.

Poll coming.

Both have their place. I think for multiple pizzas (if you have company over, for example), a national chain as this would allow some consistency between pizzas. The local pizza places are good if you only want a slice or two, or if they have one coming out of the oven that looks good that you can buy.

I go to a couple local chains.

*has a vision of NERVUN's apartment filled with cured meats*
That would be so lovely, you have no idea!

If anyone ever visits hartlepool (UK) you have to try Primo's Pizzeria in winyard rd their Pollo Ferno is mint (not as hot as its sounds) but spicey.

LLocal, becuase thats whats around. The majority of pizza places are local, and pretty good. I do like Pizza Hut a lot, and sometimes Dominoes, but theres none around.

Cheapest pizza.

That usually excludes chains.

Connecticut's got the best pizza around, bar-none (well, perhaps except for Italy, but that goes without saying).

I grew up with Connecticut-style pizza. Back home in Port Aransas (Texas, oddly enough, though it's a tourist town), that's really all there was. This one place right on the beach, in particular, had the best in town, though it was more a lodge/bar than a pizza parlor.

See, this guy named Eddie from Connecticut (New Haven, if I recall correctly) ran the kitchen. He'd been cooking for decades, and everything was top-notch. Everything. But what was head-and-shoulders above all of the other stuff on the menu? The pizza. It was perfect. Fresh cheese, home-made sauce, fresh toppings... The works. He even put his own special blend of seasonings and cheeses in the dough, so it was that much richer.

It was the best. It still is, as he's holding on, healthy as ever (and about 80 years old, too). Makes me want to go back and have another right now.

I'm from CT as well, about 20 minutes out of Hartford, (although everything in CT is about 20 minutes from there, we're so small of a state). We have some spectacular pizza here. My only complaint is that high quality Chicago Style Deep Dish is too hard to find. I disagree on Pepe's though....they are so horribly overrated. My town, (emphasis on TOWN, not CITY), has about 24-28 pizza places in it, and we have only 45,000 citizens or so.

Local pizza would be nicer than the somewhat blander chain variety but I don't really know of any local pizza places around where I live.

The best pizza imaginable can be found in the Mediterranean, particularly from Italy itself. Go to a proper little pizzeria there and you'll almost certainly be delighted. No local or chain pizza restaurants have anything on them.

Unfortunately, there isn't even a local pizzeria around here, so I'm lumbered with Pizza Hut. But if anybody ever tries to tell you that the stuff you get from there is 'pizza', they're wrong.

I buy local because it is better, and delivered by a very friendly chap. I have boycotted Domino's for years because it is run by a pro-life arsehole.