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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by tyingq on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:09PM (#16580719)
There's worse. Ultra cheap buffet pizza like Cici's. Little Caesars isn't great, but it's edible.

Little Caesar's gets its cheese from Leprino, same supplier as more expensive (and also "meh") chain pizza places.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by Turing_Machine on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:32PM (#16580854)
Getting the cheese from the same supplier doesn't mean it's the same cheese. I expect that they produce a somewhat different product for each major customer.

Little Caesars is completely inedible to my taste.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by tyingq on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @08:00PM (#16581037)
As far as I know, Leprino doesn't have any low end or "fake cheese" products. Just saying the ingredients are on par with other uninspired chain pizza, but not pure garbage.

Little Caesars does skimp on quantity. Like 2 pepperoni per slice, and perhaps less cheese, for example.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by Turing_Machine on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:13PM (#16581995)
There are a lot of gradations of quality between top-end cheese and fake cheese.

I would be extremely surprised if a customer the size of Little Caesars or Dominos doesn't specify its requirements down to the smallest detail.

Those details would be considered proprietary information and/or trade secrets, of course, so neither the cheese company nor the pizza chain would be interested in discussing it or making it public information.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by tyingq on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:32PM (#16582059)
Hrm okay. I don't see much difference between Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Little Caesar's. They are all edible, but meh...none of them terrible, but no real difference or real "mmm" factor. I go to specific mom and pop places that do NY style pizza that's actually good. Most of the good ones seem to use Lisante ingredients. Can't think of a chain place that's memorable.

Might be different if I lived in NYC or Chicago. Here in Texas, just mom-and-pop vs chain is the real difference. Fwiw, most of them are Albanian owned vs Italian. Outside of the Northeast US, there isn't much real pizza lineage/history/culture.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by bluedino on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:45PM (#16580949)
They don’t use any better or worse ingredients than other low end chains - it’s the quality of the assembly of the pizza by the workers.

Little C’s always seems to be full of air bubbles and uneven toppings and they serve up those hot n readies that have been in the warmer all day.

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Re:Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine by xinyhn on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:45AM (#16585080)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2017/05/23/james-l...

Interesting article about leprino a while back.

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