I Tried Every Fast Food Pizza In America
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
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best part of this vid was the ending where you suggested people support their local spots. well done.
What if my local Pizza spots are Jet's, Domino's and LC???????
@@GeneralMakaveliI love Domino's
My local pizza places are either worse than the QSRs or they're charging $30 for a pizza. I'm not paying $30 for a pizza.
wish he wouldve considered their price too.
@@GeneralMakaveli well then go screw yourself apparently
7:42 Papa Murphy's fills a very specific niche of the pizza market. Because you have to bake them, it isn't hot food and therefore can be purchased with food stamps.
I'd think those people would be better served getting frozen pizza at the grocery store, but whatever.
@@BitZorg nah. At one point I was on EBT and did the math on frozen pizza vs papa murphy's vs making it myself because I had a grocery store around the corner with a papa murphy's in it
They make the dough each morning and fresh slice the veggies and the cheese. With the regular bogos, couplings, 10$ Tuesdays, 30% off coupons, etc, there was no competition on any axis.
By weight, value, or taste Papa Murphy's beat everything except making my own from scratch and that could only out price them if I schlepped down to the restaurant supply store and bought 20pound blocks of cheese and a chub of Italian sausage
OK so that is actually a plus, I can say you have a good argument there.
@@PandorasFolly I think the part about making your own from scratch is a bit over-dramatized, especially since, if you get the ingredients to make one from scratch, then you have the ingredients for at least 2 if not 3, and that's with a small 9oz bag of cheese. If you aren't picky about toppings and use only the amount of cheese needed, you can make a pizza even today for around $3-4, and that's a whole 15 inch pan pizza. I make pizza all the time.
The hard truth about why many people buy fast food pizza and not from local restaurants is that in many if not most places local restaurants are only about as good if not worse than fast food, and they are without exception more expensive. Not everybody gets to live in NYC or an important city like Austin and the options are lacking. I remember decades ago the local pizza was mediocre and when Dominos arrived in our town their phones would be busy all day because their pizza was so much better.
It's true. The FF also has more consistency than the local places I tried to support.
That and there's a thing called "office meetings", "office parties", "kids birthdays", etc. Cheap pizza is the absolute king of "we need to feed 8-12 people...on $50", etc. It's also one of the few universal foods. I don't know that I've ever met a person who didn't eat or hated pizza. So if you're having a party, a get together, random people stop buy, etc. etc. etc...pizza is often the quickest, easiest, most universal option.
The uncomfortable truth most food snobs won't admit is the VAST majority of mom and pop places are mid at best.
I live in upstate NY and most of the pizza here is trash, there is a very local chain in my area that has pretty good pizza but that’s it
Edit: there used to be a bunch of good wood fire brick oven places but COVID killed them from NYs strict lockdowns
I live in Las Vegas and even here the majority of local places are bland as fuck and can't match up to Blaze, Papa Murphey's or dare I say it even Sbarro's (and WTF was that Sbarro's he was eating? It didn't look like their normal NYC style to me, which is what I'm talking about).
Oddly the best pizza in town IMO is inside a casino at a food court. Actually tastes like real NYC pizza, great flavor, great crust, not too sweet sauce.
The old Pizza Hut pizza back in the late 80s early 90s tasted 10 times better than it does now
Yup. I worked there. We used to come in early and slice the onions, and peppers, etc in house fresh. Then they switched to precut bagged ingredients. Ruined it.
Big facts. I felt it still tasted good in the early 2000s. But after that, the downfall was massive.
You speak the truth. I remember as a kid when we went out to eat it was always at the sitdown Pizza Hut restaurants because their pizza was so good during that era everybody ate there. Something happened in the late 1990s and the quality of ingredients drop dramatically.
I had a conversation with my family at a family reunion Christmas a couple years ago about this exact topic to make sure that it wasn’t nostalgia that was clouding my mind, and both my parents and even aunts and uncles all agreed that Pizza Hut was amazing back then and has turned into a pile of poop today.
The dough is made in store at LC not a distribution center. LC varies from store to store. CiCi's dough also made in store. to keep the cost down its cheaper for both to do that. Pizza hut dough is frozen. Papa johns and dominoes both are made in QCC (quality control center) with a 7-day shelf life and never frozen. The NY style crust from dominoes is just a smaller size dough ball stretched thinner. I was an area supervisor for one of the top 5 brands for several years, so I know this firsthand. Marco's i personally think you had a great experience. Thats not normal.
Definitely NOT normal for Marco's, indeed. Where I live they are the worst.
from food to service marcos is the worst ive ever had
idk about the marco's thing every time i've had the marco's around me it's also been top tier pizza
Marcos is best pizza by me
The LC of the 1980s and 90s- you got 2 pizzas on a large cardboard sleeve with a pulled paper "wrapper"... that was LC peak, and the 2 pizza sleeve is the history of "Pizza, Pizza." There was gluten, there were classic LC dough bubbles, and the crust was great. Whatever they do now to the crust, it tastes frozen or premade.
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that Maia crushes it in front of the camera! Well done, girl! Way to step up 👊
I remember Pizza Hut genuinely used to be amazing back in the 90s. Back when I was kid, the kitchen staff prepared the dough fresh right in front of us. The pizzas were huge and there were several of pitchers of beer my dad and uncles ordered.
Pizza Hut go back to preparing things fresh please. Dammit, I miss how good the Taco pizza was back then.
Came to say the same thing. I remember getting those individual pizza's for lunch as a kid and it was the only pizza dough I craved...that's long gone now.
My son's first word was "pizza" cuz of how much we loved Pizza Hut. Now even he hates it.
It used to be a casual dining sit down restaurant not unlike say Applebee's but for pizza nowadays it's just bottom of the barrel
This is proof that kids are stupid.
Remember the 90s, when the economy was better and the world was less scary and people mostly got along and fast food restaurants were colorful and goofy and family friendly and weren't poisoning us and used fresh ingredients and our culture wasn't rotting from the inside out and music and movies and TV were good and we weren't worried about it all crumbling down around us?
As a Michiganian, you burning the roof of your mouth on the first bite of Jet's hit me to my core 😂
One thing about Papa Murphy's is that because it's not baked it qualifies as eligible for WIC and SNAP.
That's actually cool
O great. Then the people mooching off taxpayers can destroy their health and further drain our funds with increased doctor visits and medication.
Papa Murphy's should have at least been above Little Ceasar, Josh's rating is sus for that alone. Also should have gotten a stuffed pizza with ranch to dip if you're gonna grade them right.
Yeah we definitely can't be buying Pizza on WIC definitely not at Papa Murphy's lol
Papa Murphy's is a sleeper hit. Although I do REALLY miss 10 dollar tuesdays. You could get a large stuffed pizza for 10 bucks, insanely value for money.
pizza hut used to be great when they actually used deep dishes to bake their pizza, used real cheese before the $5 pizza war with Dominos, and you could play mortal kombat arcade games there.
You don't go to CiCi's to eat one pizza, you go to CiCi's to eat all the pizza
Their buffalo chicken pizza slaps
Their cheese sucks, but chicken alfredo or mac-n-cheese pizza? Gimme all of that. Sucks the closes one to me now is nine hours away...
The only times I've been there I wish I went to Golden Corral instead. Golden Corral is by no means good, but CiCi's is that bad.
the macaroni pizza
I like the tier list format better than the numerical ranking system because it’s easier for me to remember where things were placed.
Its kind of weird that they awarded Costco pizza for being cheap at $9.95 but gave Little Caesars no love when their large pizza is even cheaper than Costco's.
"We're rating based off taste!"
It's about value
LC is cheaper but the value is less than a quarter because it mostly tastes like garbage unless you get the deep dish
costco is like what 40% bigger than large little caesars
Cause Little Caesars still tastes like shit, and it being cheap doesn't suddenly make it taste good.
It’s bc little ceaser is so dogshit their is no value bc you’re being dirt cheap for dirt at least for Costco ur paying dirt cheap for something
Papa Murphy's actually slaps where I'm at; $5 for a pie and the quality seems better than what you got, but also I specifically cook it just the right way to get the best crunchy thin crust I can ever get.
Chuck E Cheese's sales are probably boosted because they have a ghost kitchen on Door Dash called Pasqually's.
Wait elaborate please? What this mean?
ghost locations means they sell the same product or they just use a brick and mortar kitchen without needing their own and cook out of it. So most likely you can get pizza from Chuck E Cheese or Pasqually but its the same stuff.
@@xzicoxxmr beast beast burger
@@davidaudi882 my bad I’m slow but when you say same stuff you mean they just use the same ingredients or it’s literally made in the same kitchen, same everything just a different name ?
@@mitsuri3096 he a ghost kitchen too?
There's something so cute about mentioning his son and how he eats his pizza and the son's genius reason for it. Kids growing up to be a foodie
Having worked at a Papa Murphys back in college a few things worth noting:
1 - They actually do make the dough in house each morning. Its a mix + yeast + water. Salt is not added.
2 - The "white sauce" is literally ranch dressing + garlic (from a jar pre-minced)
3 - All of the veggies (apart from spinach, artichoke and jalapeno) are actually prepped in house.
It’s insane to me there is no salt added to such a crucial part
Seriously. Show me a recipe for pizza dough without salt....who made that decision?!?
They are rich picky fucks who are judging food stamp fucking pizzas they are waste
The mix probably has salt already
I love my local Papa John’s. Never had a bad experience there. No way I’d rate them below Pizza Hut. Josh’s local PJ’s must be one of their sub par franchises.
Fun fact, dominos New York is just a hand tossed stretched thinner. So an XL NY style is just a large dough stretched to an XL size
Fun fact, it's a "small" dough patty if I remember correctly. All the dough is the same - comes in on large, medium, and small trays 😀
I normally get dominos because its always the exact same. Theres no suprises. Its not great, but its consistent and cheap
Consistency is the key in this equation. You know what you’re gonna get every time.
Everything you said is in reverse
Dominos is the Thickest, new york deep dish is just lasagna.
I feel you on this, a lot of times I get fast food just because its consistent and I can come out pretty cheap
I CANNOT believe Papa Murphys got an F. This chain is a life saver for those of us who don't live within 10 minutes of anything else and want something fresh out of the oven.
He got the wrong pizza for their special and seemed set against it because he’d never heard of it.
Papa Murphy is fantastic. Very underrated!
@@abby79817 Indeed, I can't fathom how it could be considered bad against the likes of Papa John's or Domino's.
i say this as someone living right next to a Jet's, Domino's, and Papa John's, but sometimes you know that your last shift of the week is gonna have a bunch of bullshit and you don't wanna stop anywhere on the way home. so you get Murph's the day before, pop it in the fridge, then you can heat up the pizza in the oven while you're taking off all your gross work clothes, get a quick shower, then the pizza's done and you can just kick back with hot pizza instead of cold pizza from literally anywhere else.
i do like the sauce though. i think theirs is different because they cook it down a little more so it's less wet, since it's been designed so you can buy it on a Friday and cook it on a Saturday.
its not an F
i miss the cooking maybe after you find a winner maybe make your own version for same price but better
Yes
Pizza at home is extremely easy and cheap, though you need to buy a pizza stone for it to work and it takes 24 hours for the dough to be ready to bake.
Same price? 😂😂😂
@@hamias Well there's the catch; you have to invest in your pizza making to reap the benefits of cheaper pizza at home. Like the two tools you will need are a pizza stone and a pizza peel; then the cost of the ingredients which you're obviously aren't gonna buy in individual portions. So at face value, no, you're gonna spend more on ingredients and tools than you would for a single or two pizzas. But once you have them, I'd say the cost of each pizza comes out to around $4-6 for a large with basic toppings. Then if you want deep dish that's a different story because you'll need a pan for it. It also helps if you have a mixer to make the dough, otherwise you can it by hand, which isn't a financial cost, but it more time and effort which does matter to some people. But to put it simply, yes it is cheaper in the long run but it requires a larger up front cost than ordering a pizza. We learned from @PerfectPizzaatHome videos.
Get over it.
Detroit style severely underrated, but Marco's White Cheesy and Jet's Detroit styles are my go-to so I concur with your rankings
At this point I am convinced that Joshua has had every kind of fast food ever.
3:28 " a real 🥷🏿 bout it"
He said “Di-k”!
3:55 this man is unintentionally hilarious and it’s actually getting me 😂
S: Marco’s
A:
B: Jet’s, Blaze, Costco, Mod
C: Papa John’s, Hungry Howie’s, Godfather’s, Domino’s
D: Little Caesar’s, Cici’s, Pizza Hut
F: Papa Murphy’s, SBarro, Chuck E Cheese
I had a friend that worked for marcos, so I would get a discount. I love their dough.
@@sp00g37 I used to live in NJ where my only chain options were Papa John’s and Dominos. Towards the end of my time living there, I had this local place I ordered from. I moved to Colorado where I have Marco’s and it blows both of those chains out of the water. Sauce on Marco’s is excellent as well. They tout that they haven’t changed their sauce recipe since the beginning.
Doughtoli would’ve brought up the Papa John’s score to an A
Was hoping to see a comment like this! LOVE those dudes!
Thanks for including Costco pizza. I don't like spending a lot of money for a meal, so we often buy Costco pizzas. They are delicious, generous, and remind me of my Grandma's Sicilian pizza she made.
I want to give it a try next time I’m in the big city. Will they let me in without a membership just to grab some pizza? If not maybe I can pay someone in the parking lot to grab me one 🤣
Local chicagoan here. Quality must be location specific because Papa Johns CRUSHES every fast food pizza around here and even little ceasers is considered better than dominoes and pizza hut. The Sbarro around here is also incredible quality
Chicago people like their pizza on a cracker so...
Papa Johns is usually higher quality, but I'd be willing to bet fast food pizza joints are better managed in Chicago because of the competition with local joints.
Yeah, my Papa Johns is leagues ahead of Domino's. Also I'm kind of annoyed that Joshua didn't dip in the special garlic sauce. That's literally the best thing at PJ's, even though it has really bad ingredients lol.
@@AngryAlfonse Especially all those places that make the excellent tavern-style pizza with its square cut.
Wow, as a german I am impressed by how many pizza fastfood stores/brands you guys have! We have like... none... maybe a pizza hut in a couple of big citys, thats it.
What we have instead is like at least 1 pizzeria (= italian guys making pizza) in every minor village and 10 in every city.
What are you talking about, even just a quick google search shows Dominos in 16 German cities, and Pizza Hut in like 60 German cities
@@emu_warrior U do realize thats still not alot right? And the dominos in germany taste nothing like american dominos so might as well just be called something else
@@tattedupmayne every fast food place tastes different in each country because they source the ingredients locally, obviously. dominos is actually pretty good pizza in australia
I was in the National Guard, and there was a time when I was completely broke. During our drill the unit I was with didn't cater food so we all went to lunch, and went to Mod's Pizza. I thought I had some money still, but nope, all my cards declined, so they gave it to me for free. I was humiliated, but because they did that for me, Mod's Pizza will always be an S tier.
It also helps that their pizzas are pretty good.
Best pizza I’ve ever had is in a city across the border from Detroit called Windsor, Ontario. The pepperoni is shredded into matchstick sizes and you get a taste of it in every bite. This may sound weird but they also use canned mushrooms. Fresh mushrooms dry out when cooking but canned mushrooms retain moisture and it’s absolutely delicious. There’s even a documentary called “the pizza city you’ve never heard of “.
A lot of places use canned mushrooms (Papa Murphy's for one I think), and they end up bland and mushy. When I make pizza and I have the energy to, I lightly sauté the mushrooms in butter so they have some flavor and moisture. No pizza place ever does that. You could add them to a take-out pizza too.
wonder if you are talking about naples pizza i used to live around there and that place had fantastic pizza with the shredded pepperoni. I miss living over there all the pizza joints were great.
Costco's combo pizza was my all-time favorite and I hate that they discontinued it.
As a prior GM for Marco's Pizza, it does make me happy to see them do well. That looked like a textbook PMag. The cheese pie looked good too. They have decent quality ingredients, make the dough in-store every morning, and typically try to follow SOP's and "recipes" fairly closely. Usually makes for a pretty consistently good pizza. However like any other businesses, the ones with bad management will typically consistently make poor product. So for those rushing out to try Marco's rn, keep in mind they're typically a lower-volume store and some locations are plagued with bad management. (However do also try local options as well.)
Hopefully your dining experience is a positive one! :)
Marco's is my favorite on this list. Their Pizza and Wings combo cant be beat!
In Connectict, there's no reason to order pizza from a chain since it's a possbility that it has more superior independent and "mini-chain" pizza shops per square mile in the country.
I was 8 when we moved from Vernon to Colorado in ‘91 but can still remember the taste of Papa Gino’s…best “fast food” pizza I’ve still ever had.
@@Edizzle15even they have gone a little downhill recently
Haven't even watched... Marco's is going to be hard to beat.
Not where I live, they are pure garbage.
@@gloriouslumi most places are trash in general
I tried them once but the box didn't make it home because the grease ate through it and the pizza melted.
To this day my passenger seat has a pizza grease stain.
marcos is alright but not enough sauce, even when i ask for double sauce it still taste like its missing.
My Marcos near me is 100% S+.
Man. People are tearing Josh's opinion of Papa Murphy's uuuuuuup.
Little Caesars makes their own dough in house…… not shipped in.
That Detroit style is kinda poppin
They are rich arrogent fucks judging poor people food
@@upstairscat87yeah I have no idea why they would rank their round pizzas when their Detroit style is so much better, and more iconic of the chain.
Bullshit it is cardboard lol
Yep, came in here for this comment. I used to work there, and we made the dough for the next day in house. Little Caesar's has become underrated, I think, due to their Hot-N-Ready business strategy. The deep dish is their best rendition. Unfortunately, there is a lot of variance between locations. I suppose that is a bad quality for a chain, but it's true to some extent for all of them. I've also had good Marco's and bad Marco's.
Round Table, Mountain Mike’s, Pizza Guys, Pieology, just a few you missed.
exactly. Round table and Mountain Mikes are glorious.
Unfortunately Round Table and Mountain Mike's are strictly in the southwest tip of the US. And Pieology only has 2 locations outside southern Cali. Pretty sure they just didn't include them because they aren't national chains.
The thing about little ceasars is that its so cheap. Its wild.
It USED to be. Now I can get 50% more pizza at Costco for LESS.
Yeah Marcos pretty much gives away there pizza and it's on another level compared to lil Ceasars. I've never got an order over 20 dollars and I usually get a 1 large pie and cheese sticks and a 2l of Pepsi for 16 dollars or less sometimes under 10 bucks.
Honestly surprised Papa Johns ranked as high as it did. That crust alone makes it an easy F for me.
I swear half the reason Josh keeps making these fast food ranking videos is not only does it provide entertaining video content, he also gets to eat fast food all day. A real treat when you’ve been on a strict diet
The channel has turned into a fast food review channel😟. I miss him cooking.
Anyone remembers when Josh used to actually cook on this channel instead of rating fast food?
6:30 youre confusing ranking as now youre ranking cosco on value proposal not just overall taste.. :(
Nah they're just giving it extra props because it's cheap and not their main business focus, so it deserves some extra love based on that, whereas the other places their literal focus is to try and make good pizza as their main business model and they suck at it.
Castro is nasty
Sbarro used to be a food court tradition of mine until they stopped selling stuffed pizzas. It was the only thing they did differently than their competitors.
knew marcos would be high, very underrated place but the flavor they have on their crust is my favorite of any fast pizza place and its not even KINDA close
There's a primarily West Coast chain called Round Table - that's my favorite chain place. Good crust, a VERY good sauce, and fresh toppings. It's pretty big, with about 400 locations, though not as big as any of the ones listed here.
I think it all depends on which franchise pizza place you went to. In our area Ceasers is great. Papa Murphy's take home n cook pizza is good
Haven't heard of Papa Murphy's, but apparently there is one right down the road from me. I'll have to check it out.
Definitely depends on the Operator of the store, 2 different stores, same chain, wildly different quality. Like 1 is Unedible, and one is one of the better fast food pizzas.
Absolutely agree with the Marco's decision. Marco's pizza with extra cheese and jalapenos absolutely slaps!
I am upset that you didn't try Mellow Mushroom. Their pizza is damn good and when you pick it up, they show it to you. If you don't like it, they remake it.
Mellow mushroom is my go to
There used to be one where I live, but it failed. Probably because it was the size of 2 really big Dave and Busters. It was two stories. Way too big, and I imagine expensive considering it was lakeside, for a pizza place. Really good pizza though.
Mellow Mushroom is great, but it is not a Quick Service Restaurant/Fast Food
mellow mushroom is so expensive its hard to justify ever going there.
If you order it correctly, such as: Extra cheese, Extra sauce, and well done . . . you too, could have the perfect pizza from Papa Gino's.
I trust people from chef shows rating fast food like I trust billionaires rating entry-level checking accounts, too disconnected from peasant tatesbuds. In my opinion, there is also pressure to not rate top chains too high.
The only proper way to do these tests is to have a third party buy the pizzas and do a blind taste test.
💯% like if I were to try all these pizzas they would be S and A tiers
Finally, a level headed comment. Though I wouldn't say their taste buds are any better, just different. The restaurants are popular for a reason. Just because someone doesn't like it, doesn't make it bad.
Your videos are always so helpful, thank you!
The family owned pizza place that one should always go to in Pitt County NC would be Marabella.
SBARROS have always been my favorite pizza chain since I was a kid in the 90s. Second best was Dominos because it was the first pizza delivery I remember in my earliest memories in the late 80s and 3rd was Pizza hut because who could forget those in-restaurant dining experiences and it's unique taste at the time, in the late 80s. I've stuck with those for decades and as an honorable mention, Anthony's Pizza for all my active duty and military brats.
S tier Jet's order is a 8 corner pizza with the flat and crispy pepperoni on it, and the Turbo crust. You can't beat that.
I really feel the public opinion of Josh has changed. The longer he’s been UA-cam famous the more disconnected he’s become. The work life balance and budget of the average person has changed so much in the last ten years he has actually no clue how anyone lives anymore except for the upper class in NY and LA
You need to go outside. You also need therapy. I'm the public, you are wrong and weird.
I used to be a cook at Pizza Hut over 30 years ago (OMG I'm old). I noticed a couple of years ago they've completely changed the crust. We used to make the dough in house daily and from what I understand it now arrives pre-formed and frozen. And when I was cooking the pizzas the crust never had the flop like that. Always had the crispy, golden brown, oily bottom.
You did the Hut dirty. Everyone knows you have to order their pan pizza.
You explained this so well, thank you!
How dare lil Cesar’s be that low, that’s criminal
Joshua I request you to please keep these videos longer because I really enjoy watching it while having some snack or my food so if you could just keep it for 30-45 minutes it will be really amazing & be treat for me
"you got my address, but you never pulled up..." Pizza gangsta
4:28 you didn’t have the extramostbestest pizza. The sauce is a lot better.
And they didn’t try the Detroit style which is what they’re known for.
And I have found my local franchise store is much better than the corporate store. The franchise apparently has a different oven and doesn’t use the sauce machine
@@upstairscat87ou I love little Caesar’s meal deal with the Detroit personal and a drink for 5$
A local franchise to me is Whatta-Lotta-Pizza. Their cheese pizza looked a lot like Marco’s. Nice NY style, thinner crispy crust but not too thin or crispy. They put the perfect amount of toppings on their pizzas and they’re very affordable.
It’s like $10-$12 for a large cheese pie plus $1-$2 for every additional topping you want to add. Great little franchise with like 4-5 locations across the lower part of my state.
I hate your sellout algorithm videos. Go back to cooking. Please. There is no way in hell you tried EVERY fast food pizza in America.
Facts
You are a jerk for no reason, the community does not need you.
Pizza Hut motto: "What are you complaining about? At least we're not Papa Murphy's"
The fact that you rated Little Ceasars so low - unsubscribed.
LC's round pizzas are absolute garbage
The deep dish is 10x better
This is a classic example of garbage in...garbage out. Happens with trashy subscribers even :)
Their deep dish is A tier but regular definitely deserves an F lol
Grow some......
@@BHabe-m1j we now have official proof there are cuck lords subbed here
This was exactly what I needed, thanks!
Another no cooking video by one of of the best chefs on UA-cam- disgraceful! Josh is abandoning what made him successful.
Josh, you’ve gotta try the thin crust Spinach Feta pizza from Dominos. I always add onions to mine. Also, being from the St Louis area I was sad you didn’t include IMO’s! It’s legendary here.
Dominos thin crust is where it's at. Crispy, crunchy, flaky, buttery...mmmmmm
Loved this video, keep up the great work!
I was really hoping to see Me-n-Eds in this video of EVERY fast food pizza chain, but its an upper west coast chain so its forgiven. its my personal favorite pizza with a strong tomato sauce and cracker like crust.
Marco's Pizza is elite! People at work used to rib me and ask if I had a part-time job there cause I kept recommending it, once they tried it they understood. It's been my go-to chain pizza joint for the last 5 years and I've rarely had a bad experience.
I understand your rules for the pizzas you ordered but personally i think the Pan pizza from Domino's is the best fast food pizza and I wish it was included.
I also used to get a stuffed pretzel crust pizza from Pizza Hut that solved the stuffed crust being bland problem. The pizza itself wasnt great but the crust was good enough to make it worth it.
6:30 As a North Texan, I share the exact same sentiment regarding Houston, lmfao. I shot a wedding there this past May, and boy was I quickly reminded of why I didn't want to go back in the first place. 🤣
My wife says I ruined any type of pizza chain pizza for her with home made pizza from scratch following Joshua's recipes and tips😂
Homemade FTW
I haven’t had papa Murphys since childhood but I loved it! The pizzas we would get were absolutely massive so definitely look different than what was shown in this video.
I think if you’re trying to feed a family it’s a great value
Might I suggest a small addition Joshua? Make another round with like a top 5 best selling items - even if it's not even Pizza! Why? To me a pizza is not a "stand alone meal"! I often get stuff like a "cup" with dipping sauce - which with some pizzas can take them from "meh" to "GREAT!". Some places have an amazing salad which pairs well with a "doughy" pizza - in particular here where I live we have a Greek place which makes an ok Gyro pizza - BUT pair it with some of their Tzaziki and tomato, olive and soft cheese salad - and it's absolutely magnificent! (just an example of like 10 I can think of.) It's like a well made burger is pretty damn good - but have it with a cold coke and some well made fries and it's downright great! right? ALSO - when talking pizza - maybe their "classic" option is superior to their "latest" option? I know many times the "new stuff" isn't really that great and seems like a gimmick - however sometimes the "new" product is made with the lessons of what could be better in the classic version 😀
Domino ex-employee here, The Sauce is from a bag. thats about it. and its not very well seasoned on its own. Toppings carry the pizza, but on its own with just sauce and cheese. Its solid C- D+
I make my own pizza now unless I’m in a rush. Once you know what you’d like, you can make the marinara and dough very simple. After that use toppings as you desire. Rival along the quality of restaurants now 💪. Learning how to make your crusty strong without burning the pizza is key.
Something to remember is that these national chains are often locally owned and operated. You'll see maybe 10% of your money going to corporate for advertising, franchise stuff, etc. but the rest is going to normal operation costs, employees, etc.
But finding a non-chain probably gonna get you better pizza 🤷🏻 just not that much more of your money is going into the local economy, assuming it's not a corporately owned store.
i moved to a neighborhood with a marcos pizza sharing the same parking lot as a gas station and thought "well, at least its close by". i go out of my way to avoid ordering any other locations pizza after that, and im glad to see that im not alone in my approval of the pizza
Jalapeño ranch from Marcos is king.
MARCOS.....ALL DAY!!!!!!!! If you're in the Jackson, Michigan area get Andys Pizza...bomb!
Pizza conceptually is a perfect food in it's simplicity. Commercially marketed pizza has been turned into signature blends of toxic ingredients.
would be nice to see you do this in other countries and look at their fast food restaurants
Focken called out Pizza Hut on their threat! 😂😂
Yeah, never been a fan of domino's pizza sauce, but their garlic parm handmade pan with chicken bacon is probably my favorite fastfood pizza.
Great job, this video was very useful!
You should do this but with sandwich shops instead. I feel like you’d have a really interesting take on such a classic dish.
I know 80s and 90s Pizza Hut can never return to us in all its glory, but I'm just here to echo that it truly was a GOAT restaurant experience... the cast iron pans... the pitchers of beer... the salad bar... the arcade games... the quality was 100% there. Oh, how the mighty have fallen 😔.
PS - P Murph doesn't deserve that hate, although the value has definitely gone down as they've raised prices substantially over the recent past. The quality depends on how you cook it too. I'd defend it as C tier all day.
This was super helpful, thanks!
Support your local pizza...MY local is the Jet's Pizza that they went to IN THIS VIDEO!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Nice
End of the day, to try an rate LC, you gotta remember, the reason its so popular is its the common peoples pizza. The pizza you can get when you have little cash in your pocket, but want a full pizza. If the best pizza in the world was 5.99, you'd know we be there. It isnt however. So LC is there for you. Get a whole feast for less than 20 bucks.
I’ve had Marco’s 3 different times from 3 different locations, and it’s never cracked D tier.
I call Marco's pepperoni the "Pepperoni Matrimony" because it's one of the few pizzas I wanted to walk down the damn aisle. Just fantastic for a fast serve pizza spot. I was ordering it weekly for a while.
i'm with everyone here, 90s Pizza hut was the bomb, it was like going to get fancy pizza for my family and somehow they had the best fries.
Really appreciate the insights in this video.
When my dad was having major surgery at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, some family from there, and some staff as well, recommended a local pizza place. It was a chain apparently, but a small one. (This was like 15 years ago and the name was something incredibly generic, like Quick Pizza or something, so I don't remember the name at all.) I got a stuffed crust with mushrooms.
To this day I wonder what the hell their secret ingredient was, because I have never tasted cheese that flavorful in my life, before or since. It was at the edge of being too salty, but perfectly so, if you get me. It can't have been just salt though. Maybe it was just incredibly fresh? Hell I'm from a small town in the Southern US, what do I know about fresh real mozzarella, ya know? Some sort of blend maybe. For all I know they threw it on the bathroom floor first!
I make my own pizza, I play around with seasonings, and I get it right a lot, but that particularly strong cheese flavor eludes me. I bet it's the freshness, and I simply do not have access to a real cheesemonger!