I remember when I was a child my dad left me home alone to go on a date with his then girlfriend. As an apology he ordered me a Bigfoot pizza and bought 2 new games for my SNES. I ended up eating the entire thing while playing my games. I'll never forget that night.

We lost many people during the 90s Giant Pizza War. Near the end, my younger sister decided to stay on the front lines. I retreated to a Famous Original Ray's enclave in the north. My sister and I both made it through, but still cannot talk about those times.

Having worked at Domino's for a bit, the tracker is actually real time for the most part. At each station there is a computer that allows the employees to log which pizzas they are making or delivering to keep things organized. The "your pizza is in the oven" part starts when the first item they finished making is put into the oven. If it's just one pizza, it'll only take about 6 minutes to cook and get sliced and put into the box for delivery or pickup. Orders with lots of pizzas will take longer as the ovens can only fit about 6-8 pizzas at a time and multiple orders are prepared at a time. In most Domino's locations, every single pizza is inspected, cut, and boxed by the manager or long time employee to make sure each pizza is made as ordered. Pizzas do get remade if they aren't correct. I didn't mind that part because us employees got to eat the extra pizzas that didn't get sent out. As a highschool kid free pizza was a great job perk.

I was born in 1984. Pizza Hut used to be really good when they made their dough in-house (versus mass produced frozen), and were actual sit-down restaurants. The take-out, pre-made, model nowadays is probably more profitable, but it's a far cry from what it used to be; going out to Pizza Hut was a real treat in the early 1990's.

Little Caesars used to have this memory game in their lobbies here across Denver in the 80's and some 90's where for a quarter, you could win the top prize- half of a pan pizza. Needless to say, as a teen with a hole in my stomach and excellent memory, I never went hungry.

Cant forget Little Caesars' "Pizza by the Foot" pizza! You got a full 3 feet of pizza in a giant box with a yard stick on it, and all the pieces were just horizontal strips of thick Detroit style goodness, all for like 10 bucks. Definitely a staple at any kids parties in the mid to late 90s.

The domino’s recipe change in the 2010’s is worth mentioning. I think that also helped reinvigorate them.

Oh, I worked at Domino's a few years ago and I can report that the crew had to pass the order from one station to the next in the computer system for both in store metrics and the online tracker. "Quality check" actually means "sitting under the hot light waiting for a driver to take it out".

Pizza Hut used to be good till they changed their ingredients. Nothing beats a Pan Pizza from the 80's.

I sure do. I also remember when Pizza Hut just gave up and decided they didn’t want to try anymore.

I managed a Little Caesar's in the early 90's, K-Mart did a franchise deal with them and opened up a bunch of restaurants in the stores. The locations is was in those K-marts, were incredibly hard. We served breakfast pizza for employees and shoppers, a variety of Danishes (pre made), a bunch of stuff. We had hard ice cream, and had to make waffle cones daily, we had to make cookies daily. We also sold slices, but we had spaghetti with sauce, and lasagna we made in store. We also had sandwiches, not a lot, your basic ham and cheese, Italian style, a couple others. Some simple salads, add in a dining area, making coffee, Iced Tea, self serve soda fountain, and an Icee machine. It was a lot of moving parts. I forgot, need to make two public announcements an hour on the K-mart store wide system. Certain things we had to order from Blue Line the LC distributor, but other things I could do locally, like produce, etc. The focus on quality, internally and externally was extremely high. We did pepperoni bread, very labor intensive. They had a Caesar salad promotion. Crazy cheese (cream cheese and chives) with crazy bread. The products we put out were good. It was fun, we had very few complaints, the promotions came and went, and after about 18 months, they were sending me around to fix problem restaurants, using me as a training manager in grand openings, and didn't want to pay me for that. We parted ways on good terms. Maybe 2 years later I got hired by a corporate run restaurant, that was a complete nightmare, they had no standards (for the district I was in). What they were doing is why Little Caesar's is barely edible now. They skimped on everything, watered down sauce, shorting the weights on the dough balls, proofing time was arbitrary, pre sheeting the dough, less cheese, pepperoni stayed the same, people can count that, every other topping always told us to under weigh. It was run so bad, they did not know what to do, all of the locations in the area were closing.

Man one of the great things about Little Caesars back in the day was instead of doing personal pan pizzas they offered you a slice for $1.79 you could get two slices of a large pizza and a large soft drink

I don’t remember how any of these tasted, I just know that my mom always bought Little Caesar’s because you could get more for less, and there were 5 kids to feed. Pizza Hut was always an occasional, oily treat, and never Domino’s unless it was at a school party or someone else’s house.

I don't remember the Pizza Wars. I was busy fighting the Cola Wars.

Little Caesar’s has stepped up their ingredient quality in the last 10 years or so. I remember as a kid you had to eat it within an hour or it would become hard and flavorless. Microwaving would just result in hot, somewhat soft, flavorless pizza. But I’d put them up there with Dominos and Pizza Hut today.

Pizza after the 80's and 90's just never tasted the same, like tears in rain.

I didn't know my childhood was the golden age of pizza chains. We were solidly a pizza hut family.

Little Caesar's delivered where I lived in the 90's. My best friend was a delivery person there, so even though they weren't the best pizza in town, we always ordered from there anyway so that we could give him a decent tip.

I worked at PH for half the decade of the 90's, whilst I was in college. For those of you wondering, the biggest taste difference of the Bigfoot was the dough. It was a Neapolitan dough, so if that helps with the taste remembrance, there ya go! lol Also I remember when they first started selling the breadsticks, man, the employees bought and ate most of them for the first few months, heh. I didn't work at a redroof, I worked at a delivery. Plus, back then, we made the dough in the mornings in a mixer, vrs it coming in already made but frozen :(

I remember from like 2000-2008, I never heard of Little Ceasar's, and I'd thought they'd gone out of business, but then they became even more popular than they were in the 90s right after that thanks to the $5 Hot N Ready campaign which was a huge hit.

I worked at a delivery and take out only Pizza Hut location over the summer when the Bigfoot came out. It was never able to cook correctly. The middle of the pizza was always slightly undercooked and soggy. We used to get to split any takeout pies that were ordered but not picked up. The unclaimed Bigfoots usually went directly to the dumpster untouched at the end of the night.

“No, we don’t have Crystal Pepsi, we’re Dominos!” Why is this so funny to me?

Great video, being a pizza fan ive always wondered how it was back then in the 90s with fast food chains being more popular than ever. Indeed Pizza hut had a distint taste back then.

I remember how The Big Foot tasted. The taste was like any of their other pizzas and had a thin crust. It was great for large birthday parties and really helped my mom feed a crowd. She was everyone’s favorite mom for a reason!

Pizza Wars Veteran here..I remember, the cheesiness of the ninja turtles pizza and Home Alone’s Nero pizza - that’s what really set it off.. We were only kids, man, we were only kids. It’s been almost thirty years, every time I close my eyes I see the Little Caesar’s manager’s face. I ask him for forgiveness, he shakes his head and whispers, “Pizza Pizza.”

Customers: You came late. I don't have to pay for the pizzas. Pizza Delivery Men: I missed the part where that's my problem.

Round Table Pizza and Pizza Hut had the old school kind of pizza place atmosphere that I feel is sorely missing these days (kind of like an irish pub or something).

The commentary, topic, editing, and subtle humor all go well with your content. Keep it up and you'll blow up soon!

I sure loved Pizza Hut's pan pizza from the 80's and 90's when it was a family restaurant --- pastas, pizza, salad bar. On our birthdays we got to order any pasta we wanted, I loved the wagon wheels. But if I had to chose among the 3 here I'd go with Domino's today. The Pizza Hut by me (carry out & delivery only) closed recently, they were so terrible and deliveries and pick ups took 2+ hours. I don't expect too much from fast food pizza, but every now and then Domino's hits the spot when I'm too stoned to care and don't want to drop a ton of $$$.

...and birthday parties in the 90's were incredible for every reason you've seen in this video! 🥳 🍕 Also, when Pizza Hut's stuffed crust was briefly (in the test markets some of us were a part of, anyway) called "Mama Lorelli's Stuffed Crust Pizza," it had AWFUL sauce with an overabundance of stewed tomatoes chunks under the cheese, forced into every bite. Once they fixed it, they had absolute gold.

i remember the little caesers at k-marts selling pepperoni crazy bread, it was GREAT. but as with all things that sell, little caesers ended up discontinuing it...why, we shall never know

Pizza Hut was always my fav chain pizza joint. Combine buttered crust with a 4-changer Neo Geo arcade cab with Viewpoint, Neo Turf Masters, or Aero Fighters 2 in the mix...you make my heart sing.

It’s hard to pick the best decade for good fun, but all I can say is that they’ve gone down since the 90s. I’d venture that the 50s-90s were the best times in history.

I liked Little Caesar's back then and I still like it now. In my town we have two cheap pizza options, Little Caesar's and Zanzi's. Little Caesar's is by far my favorite of the two. Back in the 90's Pizza Hut had a taco pizza and when I tell you I'd do anything to get that again I'm not exaggerating lol. They had the best taco pizza I've ever had. Ah, the good old days!

The NewYorker from Pizza Hut... Hands down! I miss eating AT Pizza Hut so much! That's where my wife and I went for our first date, in 2006!

The biggest part of domino's rise to the top is the fact that they put so much effort into overhauling their recipes so that their pizza just tastes better than the competition's. I remember dominos tasting like cardboard when I was a kid and now it's absolutely delicious.

You left-out the Big New Yorker. That was the best pie, by far: the only one I still miss.

The Bigfoot pizza was actually pretty good, at least from the hut we used to get it from. We'd order them for work. They were cooked well from my memory. They inavertantly (or intentionally) reinvented indian bread for the crust. I love indian bread.

I came up in western Massachusetts, a place that still does party sized sheet pizzas like the old days. The kind that used to tape 2 large pizza boxes together to get it to fit the pie. It's a fad that never died there, though it did back off from the craziness of the wars. I still remember Liqouri's in West Springfield would offer a "crazy slice" which was a quarter of one of those pizzas for around $5. My 30 year old self would still take 3 servings to eat it all. When I moved away from there, I noticed that there were no "party size" pizzas anywhere and a lot of places do personal size instead.

The ending comment of liking better pizza vs more pizza for your value is so true. I used to get the thickest pizza I could possibly find. In the last year + I changed completely into a thin crust lover with better toppings!

I have to say it, the best pizzas are the original pizza slices from local pizzerias where the sauce is well seasoned and the slices are a decent portion. I am talking about a NYC slice. I have never liked those pizza chain pizza places before. However, I did enjoy watching this episode. This was truly a fun filled memory lane with how crazy those pizza chains were on marketing their “not so well made” pizzas. Thank you.

Hey, Bigfoot pizza was really good actually! I brought it in for my classmates for my birthday in January ‘94. I’ve been hoping they’d bring it back at some point.

Growing up in the 90s, the bigfoot pizza from pizza hut was a common fixture of birthday parties. Good times.

I do remember the pizza wars. Our town looked like Dresden after WWII when it was over.

Little Caesars in my town always delivered in the 90's. First job was driving for them and they paid drivers a percentage (8.5%) plus minimum wage which wasn't too bad at the time. Little Caesar used to make subs in pita pockets, they were pretty good.

Loved those Pizza Pizza from Little Caesars, nothing better than some left over cold pizza for next day or quick microwave for a bite for my college days. 😍🥰🍕🍕

I love this announcer - side note. Sounds to me a lot like Colbert! Makes everything more engaging. Thanks for all these awesome, entertaining videos. I'm learning a lot!

I had 2 favorites 1 was the Bigfoot, and the other was the Crazy 8's from Little Ceasars. It was their 2 square pizza's with up to 8 toppings. I have always loved square pizza, and always will.

The Bigfoot pizza was amazing as a kid! With Jolt Cola it was the perfect combo. I was so sad when it disappeared.

I told someone the other day that little Caesars used to sell two large pizzas in a huge paper bag. I'm not sure if they believed me.

Hell yeah I remember! The 80's and 90's were great years for chain pizza, man. When people talk about "it ain't the same," it's not just nostalgia talking.

Being a kid in metro-Detroit in the 90s - I was indoctrinated by Little Caesar’s as a kid. They had “Caesarland” which seemed like a cooler and higher end Chuck E Cheese (looking back though it’s probs the same lol). Either way crazy bread and Caesarland will always have a nostalgic place in my heart

I remember exactly how the Bigfoot tasted. We got it every weekend until it was discontinued.

Dad used to get the Bigfoot for payperview boxing. As a kid I was on board! It was great! Also little Cesar's combos. Ahh the 90s

Got a Pizza Hut ad before this. Pizza Hut will always be my go to. Helps my best boss ever was a GM at the Hut

Domino's $7.99 large 3 topping carry out deal is simply the best pizza deal of the past 10 years, and for that it will always be number one in my heart.

God I almost didn't remember my 20's in the early 90's. Also thanks for the clip of SF driving which is hilarious. The West Coast thanks you! I worked for a nonprofit and I remember if we had a board meeting where we wanted peer input of folks with mental health issues or to persuade them to join the board or a fundraiser we got Dominos or little Cesears. My executive director always said, "Feed them and they will come" a riff on the baseball movie Bull durum "Build it and they will come". It worked local high Schools rewarded kids with pizza days during stressful exam periods. Lets face it offer pizza and a county pool day or beach day and people of all ages were in. Being 23 in 1993 I was always on a diet so I could only watch the cheesy orgy.

I'm not proud of this but when I was a kid I went to a neighbors house and was going to order a pizza and try to get it for free and I told the neighbor my plan and she gave me food instead. You have no idea how much that means to someone who had nothing. A sandwich was like a steak. Lol Yeah I almost did that shady order thing though. Glad she didn't let me. She was definitely heaven sent.

We always had Pizza Inn growing up. We went there on Tuesday nights for the buffet and then usually ordered a pizza for take-out sometime during the weekend. The 1990s seem to be the peak era for pizza. It's still popular, but there are many more food options these days.

Since this channel is still relatively you I gotta say, the writing and narration is phenomenal.

I grew up in the early 2000s and I used to go to Blockbuster right before it closed. You should do a video on the rise and fall of Blockbuster. I know it’s not food but youu could always do it on your other channel! Thanks for all of the great videos!

Bigfoot was the official pizza of the slumber party when I was a kid! If it didn't have bigfoot, it wasn't a slumber party!

I love how Julius Caesar says his signature catchphrase at the end of every single ad since the introduction of the slogan "Pizza, Pizza".

The production value of these videos is phenomenal! So entertaining and funny! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Awesome video!! I wonder what WHF can dig up on the candy industry 🤔

The Pizza Wars of the 1990s have many parallels to the Burger Wars of the 1980s, where innovation is concerned...

To this day, stuffed crust is still the most genius breakthrough in the history of pizza.

8:26 okay not being able to fit in the car is hilarious

Little Caesars in the 90s tasted AMAZING even cold the next day, the closest i've ever come to experiencing that tast was in the mid 2010s at a Peter Piper Pizza, chain pizza has lost its flavor way imo.

What I wouldn't give for a bag of 1980s Crazy Bread (before they eventually ruined it with cost cutting).

You forgot Pizza By The Foot at Little Ceasers. Some of the funniest commercials.

Stuffed crust was the tier 1 pizza of the 90's.

I’m so impatient! I need more food history, it’s so great!!

Back in '94, I was the opening manager of a Little Caesar's, I made the dough fresh every morning.

Little Ceasars did deliver pizza in 1993. I was a driver from 1993 to 1994 in Lansing MI.

I worked at Pizza Hut when Bigfoot came out (I think I still have my Bigfoot on Board sign). If I recall it used a special whole milk cheese, but later dropped. The pizza was basically two medium with the toppings of a large. After it waned, we would still use the bags foe two medium orders, and on occasion the double Bigfoot bag four medium. As for dough it was cross between hand tossed and a thin.

The biggest Canadian pizza chain up here is called “Pizza Pizza”. I remember seeing Little Caesar’s commercials on American stations and thinking it’s funny, it’s like they’re advertising for them. When LC expanded into Canada, I remember the commercials now had their mascot saying, badly dubbed, “two pizzas!” So lame. Then Pizza Pizza introduced their Twins pizzas and all hell broke loose.

So that’s how Reggie came up with the Bigfoot pizza.

Fun fact. The Dominos app use to authenticate the payment on your device rather than online servers. So you could enter random card details and go into the apps code to set the payment status to approved. Then you got pizza for free.

great visuals

Pizza Hut was the best back in the 90s, but at some point something changed and now their pizza tastes terrible. Domino's made a huge rebound in the early 2010s and went from tasting like cardboard, to actually being decent. Little Cesar's still remains the best budget pizza tho.

What a time to be alive. Times were simpler. Times were better.

So much nostalgia in this vid, love it!

Today, LC's ExtraMostBestest line of large 1-topping pizzas is easily the best value out there.

Love ❤️ 💗 💕 the new channel

Domino's also partnered with American Dairy, read the government, and they collectively decided that more cheese would be best. Amazing.

My family’s favourite use to be Monster bite pizza, from the Real Canadian Super Store. It was a made in store pizza that you had to bake at home in your own oven. We would buy one of those a less than half the price for the fancy restaurant pizzas, and we would get our own extra toppings and add them ourselves. It was the best pizza as far as we knew, and it was definitely better than nothing and all we could afford so we were happy 😊

Always went with the Little Caesars because it was cheaper, there were kids to feed. Friday night was pizza night. I could spend about 20 bucks and come out with four different pizzas and everyone was happy. Domino's if I didn't feel like driving. And I remember them from when I was a kid in Michigan and they were still Dominick's, back in the days when my parents would order pizza. Or this fantastic thing called Chicken delight. But that's a whole other thing. And I do miss going into a Pizza Hut sitting down having a picture of beer and a cigarette waiting for my pizza.

Aww yiss. I distinctly remember The Bigfoot Pizza. My parents would order it once a week, and eat on it as lunches for the following week. I liked it, because it came with so many of those little plastic box top holders, which I used as tables when playing with my toys. As far as flavor, I mostly recall picking off those nasty green bell peppers. Other than that it was acceptable to a child's pallet. These days, Pizza Hut is my least favorite on the list, but it was exciting back then. I prefer a regional chain now.

I remember the bigfoot pizza when I was a teen in the 90s. I don't think it was any different than any other Pizza Hut pizza as far as taste. Just a bigger Pizza Hut pizza. Didn't have a Little Caesar's back then anywhere nearby where I grew up, now there are three within driving distance.

I remember the Little Caesars $5 pizza. The price had not changed since the 1990s and all sudden in 2022 the price increased to $6.50. One of those ironies.

Loved the Interner Historian vibes of this video

Remember the PS1 demo disks that pizza hut gave out?

Wait, didn't Reggie Fils Aime invent the Bigfoot pizza before he went to Nintendo? That's a pretty cool piece of trivia there.

The big cheese was groundbreaking as a grade school child. Definitely the cool thing to have at birthdays. Stuffed crust was amazing too, I loved eating it backwards like in the commercials.

I remember the Big, Big Cheese, only had it once but the ad campaigns were ridiculous and hilarious. Loved it. Still enjoy Little Caesars even today.

I love these 90s-centric food videos. I was born in 92, so I lived through the 90s but don't really remember them, which is weird that these feel strangely nostalgic.

Love LC's.

What I miss the most is the pizza hut buffet. Feel bad for those who don't know and never will

Going to K Mart in the 90s meant also getting a little Cesar’s, the 90s were amazing!