Little Caesar’s Pizza

I call this pizza «dining on a budget» pizza. Meaning when you are broke and close to payday… and you have nothing to eat.
It doesn’t compare to dominos or pizza hut or even papa johns… but if you are hungry… you will eat almost anything.
Its always packed for the special $ 5 Hot and Ready Pizza… but this wouldn’t be my first choice for pizza.

Little Caesars, Marcos, Numero Uno etc… the fast food of pizza joints. Beware places that have pizzas ‘pre-​heated, ready to go.’ Quite simply, you get what you pay for. I don’t even put Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Dominoes in the same category as these places, at least their pizzas are cooked to order.
Little Caesars crust is comparable to cardboard, the ingredients are unrelentingly cheap, and it’s incredibly greasy. However the price is unbeatable. For $ 5 you can get a large pizza, but it’s easy to see why.

The plan had been to eat at home. Our friend, staying with us for the holidays, was out. The two of us wanted to cook — we really did, but staring at the cats was taking up all of our time. That and we were kinda at different stages of fighting off a cold. Our friend called from the road — he was headed back to our place — and he was sick. We said «Bring home food». He was planning to stop at Walgreen’s and there was a brand new Little Caesars next to it (near the address listed for this review, but not yet even officially listed. Mine was at 19^th Avenue and Southern). I was hesitant to go w/​that one — but I figured hey, it’s new. Places are normally better than usual when they are new, right?
He got one cheese and one Peperoni. Had it just been so many years since eating really really bad pizza that I just forgot what it was like? Because this was NOT good pizza. Greasy, sure. But there was no flavor. None. It’s like I had to check to see that I really had food in my mouth. Sure, I could tell what it was supposed to taste like but a) Those were not high standards and b) It never even made it’s own low standards.
You must be thinking wow — 2 stars? It sounds worse than that. Here’s my thought
— I didn’t get food poisoning. Normal «sick after eating bad greasy pizza» feeling still applied, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
— The service was really fast as it is a «to go» place — the pizzas are just waiting for customers to walk in the door
— I was full after eating it
— I didn’t have to cook.