What do you think about Little Caesars?

Been a cook for 7 years, started at little Caesars and you'd be surprised how many other pizzerias use the same ingredients and charge 3x as much.

This place saved me when I was living on minimum wage seven years ago. I was renting a place with no kitchen. Two pizzas a week. The line was out of the door. Keep doing it Little Caesars.

I feel Little Caesars nailed their niche and uses their resources wisely. Most pizza places fail in their crust - it's like eating cardboard. I love Little Caesars crust; it tastes fresh. Their Crazy Bread is comfort food. Their cheese is actually decent and not super greasy, but still melty. Their sauce is well balanced. I'm not expecting gourmet pizza for $5. It's a really good pizza at a really great price.

They skimp on cost but make a surprisingly good product. You have to hand it to them: they found a business model that works.

LC has 100% control of their distribution system and the process is streamlined to include only one size pizza and even limited toppings. That’s how they can make a $5.55 pizza. It’s no frills and it is what it is, take it or leave it.

This place saved me when I was struggling a few years back. 5 dollars you got dinner, love it

I worked at Dominos in college and they used the same cost-cutting tactics when it came to ingredients (although the dough is refrigerated and shipped in by a distribution center), but they charge far more for the pizza. Little Caesars only gets hate because cheap = bad in a lot of people's minds...

It's a rarety in US businesses to actually pass along cost savings to the customer

My town flooded and the Little Caesars nearby was the only place that was open. Got 2 pizzas and lived on them for a week, I’ll always be grateful for that

When I was a kid in the 90s they used to have slices for 25 cents and a large pizza was $3. We used to pool our money together, mostly quarters we found on the ground, ride our bikes to the store and then balance the giant box on our handlebars on the way home. Back in the day

I used to work as an assistant manager at a pizza hut and will always prefer little ceasar's just due to the simple fact that they make their dough in house. The taste is undeniably better. The list of places I will spend more than $8 on a pizza is very small and none of the major chains are on that list.

I love how there's a Little Caesars literally just down the street from where I live, never had any issues from them, and they're located in quite a hot spot that's centered between a general grocery store, a Dairy Queen, and a convenience store. Love me a Thin 'n Crispy from there, any time.

Pizza Hut uses frozen sauce that they just add water to also. Their toppings are very similar, especially the directions on how much to add to each pizza (they have cups specifically to measure each topping, and actually count the number of pepperonis used per pizza). Yet, unlike LC, they use frozen dough that is thawed out before being cooked. And Pizza Hut is twice the price... so let that sink in. Never understood the hate for LC, their prices are great and their pizza is actually fresher than other chain's pizza.

They’re a life saver. When you have a family to feed. For $10-15 you’re done. Unlike going somewhere else you’ll pay that for one meal. If I want a premium pizza, I’ll pay for one. I love that they’re openly a bargain pizza place. And nothing more, and they’re not trying to over price their food. A good comparison is your local Chinese restaurant or one you find at the food court at the mall. They give you a to-go tray over stuffed with chicken and rice for $8-10 and it’s enough for 2 people. But if you go to Panda Express… it’s over $10 for a bowl And it’s at best 1/3 the portion of the small chain Chinese food. That’s because it’s cheap to make Chinese food. Places like panda are just price gouging

It's a hot or miss. Most of the time it tastes like the box it's in. But every now and then it's amazing. The pepperoni is crispy, the cheese is perfectly melted, the crust is soft and chewy. But that's pretty rare.

I do a lot of the work for the little caesars in my area (electrical, plumbing, tile, etc.). I was shocked to find out they made fresh dough every day! What I'll say about LC is this... it's not the ingirdients that worry me. It's the kitchen cleanliness and workers themselves. Out of the 6 I've worked in, I'd only eat at one location. The other 5 I find to be a disgusting place to make food! Seeing the state of these kitchens lead me to not touch fast food.

I worked at little caesar's for two years in college and although the work sucked, the smoothness of their operation could not be matched by many restaurants. I learnt some good lessons in that place.

I worked for a Little Caesars for 5 years through high school and a little bit past and literally everything here is true. The sauce comes in a box with 4- 3 liter bags and 2 bags are split between a large lexan bain marie and a proprietary spice blend is added with 2 and a half liters of water to make 8 and a half liters of sauce roughly and one container of sauce could stretch between 20-30 pizzas roughly if the make line people used the proper amount and spread it evenly. The cheese we used was all the same, a mozzarella and muenster blend, for every pizza whether it was a HNR or a custom made item so that's the only part that was a bit incorrect but only marginally and was measured with different sized cups such as an 8 cup for a large/ 5 for each size of a deep dish/ Italian cheese bread/ Gold cup for any of the Extra Most Bestest line of pizzas. The toppings we were always told to apply evenly and sparingly whether it was 30 pepperoni per pizza (more for the Extra Most Bestest which I can't remember the exact number off the top of my head anymore) and only the correct sized measuring cup of other toppings which varied from each pizza build guide. My boss was incredibly knitpicky with the money coming in and going out of the store so she'd be in every other day checking that everyone was building product correctly and using only the proper amounts of toppings. The dough is made in-house and one batch of dough could make 40 sheetouts (40 pizza bases) and 60 orders of crazy bread as the cutting procedure was set at 15oz dough balls for pizzas and 10oz balls for crazy bread. Once the dough was mixed, weighed, and separated it was put into the walk in where it was supposed to sit for at least 24 hours but a lot of the time it would be pulled early and used before it could proof thus causing that "cardboard" texture that people often ALWAYS use to describe a bad pizza crust. A properly proofed and handled dough round will always make a really nice fluffy crust but with the usual high mass ordering (usually between 5-10 pizzas at once was a normal thing for my store) that was associated with Little Caesars we would go through all the proofed product in a short amount of time and have to start using partial proofed dough which created a lesser crust. The deep dish dough is made in the same fashion as the normal dough base with the exception that we didn't use vegetable oil or the proprietary yeast mix that other dough used and instead we substituted cold water for warm and used a very active baker's yeast to get a really fluffy (it literally grew to double the size on the table as you were cutting it) dough that we put in the deep dish pans with a special oil that gave the dough an inherent garlic/butter flavor that sadly kind of gets lost through all the other ingredients on the pizza. Through all the years I worked for a LC store and between all the other pizza places I still honestly prefer Little Caesars since I know the dough is always made fresh in-house and never comes frozen, the cheese never comes frozen, and I honestly think our sauce was better than anyone else's even though its a cheaper and more economic sauce recipe.

In the 1990s, Little Caesar's "Pizza, Pizza" meant two great pizzas for one low price.

Living in a high altitude desert, where things simply cook differently from humid sea level places like NY, I can say Little Cesar's is one of the better tasting pizza places around here. If I recall correctly from my time working at the place, the large pizza was 8oz of cheese (+3oz for a cheese pizza) and 30 slices of pepperoni specifically.

What I like about Little Caesars is that, they dont pretend to be something they aren't. Its cheap pizza and and in a pinch its fine. The Mrs and I order a small Bacon and Pep Pizza for me, greek Salad for her and cheesecake from a good local place. Comes out to like 23 dollars. For people with kids? Waste of money, a kid doesn't know or care the difference between a 5 dollar pizza and a 20 dollar pizza

Having a family of 4 we really appreciate LC for staying budget friendly during these crazy times. 2 Hot n Ready are our go to for Friday/Saturday nights. Thanks again LC for staying true. Delicious.

So they're made better than I thought; not bad for an inexpensive take out option for a family on a budget. No complaints!

"It's hot and it's ready!" 'OK, but is it good?' "It's HOT and it's READY!!"

The Pizza Portal is the best thing they ever did. I love being able to order on my phone and just walk right on in and grab it without having to wait in line or talk to anyone. And they notify you on your phone when your order is ready so you don't have to stand there and wait if you get there early. I sit in my car and wait for the notification, then just walk right in, grab it, and I'm out of there. More carry-out restaurants should copy this idea.

The one thing I really miss about the ending of K-Mart is that the Little Caesars in them are gone, they were nice places to sit down and eat...and their deep dish was awesome

Worked for Pizza hut for 10 years, started as a driver and worked my way up to Resteraunt Manager. Biggest issue I have with pizza places is they will use dough that is past its shelf life or don't make it properly. Old dough is easy to spot as the crust is rather pale and has spots where is it golden brown (like it is supposed to look). The hand tossed dough at PH had a shelf life of about 18 hours without any sauce (drops to about 2 hours at that point). Pan dough had a shelf life of about 8 hours before it would collapse (about 1/2" thick when it should have been just over 1" thick). Dough that is over-proofed (let rise too long) or took too long to get into the proofer is typical of a lot of pan pizzas. I often saw people making it take way too long to make it and let it sit out before getting it into the proofer. From the time the mixer stops you have 30 minutes to portion it out and into a proofer where it should sit for 60 minutes so 90 minutes before it is in the walk-in. Often it would be an hour past that before it made it there so when it was cooked it was rather flat (about 1/2" thick when it should have been just over 1" thick). I won't order pan pizza from any pizza place. Food costs made up about 30% of the price, labor was another 30%, overhead was another 35% and about 5% was profit.

Back in the day when I worked at Little Caesar’s we made our own dough, and ground the cheese from blocks of mozzarella and Muenster. Ingredients were supposed to be weighed for toppings, but the more experienced dressers would eyeball it. Special price pies would have a more restricted amount of cheese and toppings, but is this really surprising? And in the old days, in a neighborhood store, we would add extra to our favorite sweetheart regular customers pies, so much that one of our favorites started requesting “light cheese.” We showed our love by piling on more cheese for our favorite regulars.

It’s also about volume. Little Caesar’s used to cost more, and in the early 2000s, they introduced their $5 Mondays. They ended up being swamped every Monday and quickly realized they just needed to make pepperoni pizzas continuously to keep up. It basically kicked off a whole new business model. Lower profit margin, higher volume of sales.

Little Caesars is a win win for me, it's cheap, it's quick and tastes great to me. I don't care how cheap or expensive a pizza is, if I like it, I like it. *I don't care about what people who think they're refined say lol*

Little Caesars at my town was closed down but while it was here it was great. Cheap or not, it was tasty. Much appreciated.

Little Caesars is pretty good pizza for the price. Often, you get what you pay for but, Little Caesars, not having to cover costs of restaurant space and seating, and making their own fresh dough daily is a great way to cut business costs and pass the savings on to customers. It's good pizza at a good price.

I haven't had Little Caesars for a while, but I remember when I first encountered them. Back in the mid-80's, I worked at a 7-Eleven that had one of these pizzerias a short walk away. I went there for lunch on occasion and was impressed that you got two pizzas for the same price as many chains' one pizza. No, it wasn't gourmet fare, but when you're young and poor, this hits the spot!

Hands down the best pizza chain in terms of value and taste. People say it tastes like cardboard, but I think it tastes perfect. Just hope they don't change their recipe to satisfy niche audiences like Pizza Hut or Dominos did.

I worked there over 25 years ago. Not sure when it changed, but back then all the cheese was a mozzarella/muenster blend, shredded in-house (3:1 mozz/muen ratio). The sauce wasn't just add water either. We used 4 of big tomato paste cans for each batch, with 4 cans of water and the premixed spices that came in a generic sealed pouch. Mixed all by hand with a huge whisk and then refrigerated overnight so all the flavors bloom, and then it's ready to use for that day.

I always remember the smell of a freshly baked little Caesar’s as a kid. Sooooo good.

Worked as both a cook and driver at pizza hut and they also use sauce concentrate where you just add water and stir. Only diff is little Caesars is probably half the price of a pizza hut pie

They had an "extra extra" or something, with much more toppings. They use to go on sale for $6, but were normally $8. They were really good, compared to the standard "pizza pizza."

This describes every major chain, really. Pizza Hut found that it was cheaper to use frozen dough, and its pizzas costed about $2.25 to make back in 2005. That included nearly every aspect of overhead including average rent and utilities. Somebody actually measured the cheese out on the major chain pizzas and found that Little Caesar's ironically used the most cheese.

I worked at Pizza Hut for a very long time, in 6 different locations, in three states. I also worked for Dominoes. With the exception of making the dough from scratch, it's all the same.

As a former little Caesars employee we were not told to go easy on the cheese and we would use the same cheese and in Arizona little Caesars does do delivery and we used yeast to prevent the pizza from sticking on the pan

Having worked in two different pizza places I can tell you that one had their dough delivered while the other made it in house, one used frozen cheese while the other did not. Both places had you measure -everything- that went one the pizza. Sauces, cheese, toppings... everything was charted with how much went on what kind of pizza. The perceived quality was higher, the price was higher, but the end product was pretty much the same as Little Caesar's. One of those places closed down, the other is a national chain that is still around. I like all three places. I like other pizza places as well. They all have their perks and their flaws. Little Caesar's puts out a good product. I kind of prefer them over some other places like Pizzahut (where I only order from for the stuffed crust), Dominos, or Papa John's. Usually it is because of the quality of the product for the money I pay. It is all opinions, all subjective. Get what -you- feel like paying for. Don't let the companies try to tell you what you should be getting. Corporations and such are not our friends. ... Man I get preachy when I'm tired.

Has always been and will always be my favorite pizza chain! I love the taste and will never forget the good old days when it came in 2's in that paper bag on a cardboard tray. Nothing like tearin that bag opened and digging in! And love the crazy bread and deep dish too!

Simple but so good! Growing up in the 80s and 90s I would have never thought of anything being better than Pizza Hut. But, here we are and I won't even look at Pizza Hut as I drive past it going to Little Cesar's 😂😂

I worked at a little Caeser's before covid and I gotta say, your never supposed to do what you see at 1:00, the individual is spreading the cheese evenly after putting it on. I was taught that if you do that, it will mess with the layer of cheese after cooking as there's now sauce potentially on top of the cheese.

Solid pizza + low price = win

I have always appreciated Little Caesar's. Whenever my life has needed them, they have been there for me, instantly. Love LS!

When our kids and their kids want to come over to use our pool and that is often a lot of times they stop by Little Caesars for several pizzas. I will say for the low cost the quality and taste is very good~~~!!! Shalom

I actually prefer Little Caesars pizza much more than the more expensive Pizza Hut's sparsely topped pies with chewy crust. Side by side i'd choose Caesars over the hut regardless of price.

They have saved me so many times through the years and on the bonus side, I actually like their pizza. While other places have doubled or even more for less food in both quantity and quality, LC has stayed pretty damn consistent.

What's not to love? Great product, and reasonable prices! Now I want pizza!

We used to love getting a pepperoni pizza from there when they were close to us, but the store was sold. So we don’t get to buy their cheap pepperoni pizzas anymore. Love them!

Back in the day when little Caesars first started and they first opened do used to be able to get two pizzas for the price of one and their slogan was pizza pizza so if you ordered one large you would actually get two large for the same price

not a popular opinion, but as far as National Pizza chains, go Little Caesars is actually my favorite, I personally feel that it taste better than the competitors.

My sons 18 now but back in the day THIS WAS A SUPER SURPRISE to walk n2 his class with 🍕 Those of us with minis & tiny ones, THIS USED TO BE THE GO TO for class parties 🎉, birthdays 🎁🎂 or just bcs. You could feed your child's class VERY well with 4 boxes of lil Cease, a couple of boxes of Capri Suns, and a some 🧁 it was on!!!! For about $35 you def made the little ones SOOOOOO HAPPY. Thank you lil Cease, you're the REAL MVP = P for Pizza 🍕

How can you not like a company that was actually started by Julius Caesar himself when he was a child 2,000 years ago!

It's great for the value. Other chains have went downhill so much over the past couple of years that it seems there isn't really much difference in quality between this or an overpriced Pizza Hut or Papa Johns pizza.

I’m not a cheap skate and I usually order dominos at times but I decided to try little Caesar’s couple days ago and for a kid that only has 50 dollars a month, eating little Caesar’s is cheap snack for me and is a little bit better than Pizza Hut for me! It’s amazing and I love it

They charge about $9 around here and you must wait about 15 minutes for the "$5 hot and ready"

I worked at LC in High School in the mid 80s...back when it was a "regular" pizza company..competing with Pizza Hut Round Table etc...$3.35 an hour but all the pizza and crazy bread I could eat😁It was pretty smart of them to revamp so that they could survive and carve their own niche...👍🏾

This company is a blessing. Truly.

My girlfriend is a "foodie," and super-picky about what she will eat. She is also into health food. That said, she likes (as do I) the Little Ceasars' chicken and vegetable pizzas. The dough is excellent, not too heavy, and light on cheese is a good thing:). Regardless of the cost, their pizzas are quite good.

Worked at LCs for 7 years, can confirm. We also used to buy mozzarella and muenster cheese in massive blocks and shred it in machines ourselves so it was more crumbly

In other words they have a good deal and don't overprice the customer. Imagine that

they sometimes taste better than Papa John's and Dominos and especially Pizza Hut

I used to work at Little Caesars, albeit over 10 years ago. Some odd things struck me as not quite accurate. They don't use different cheese for hot and ready pizzas vs everything else. It's all one big mix of mozzarella plus muenster. Secondly, it's not that workers are told to sprinkle conservatively. You are given a measuring cup for different pizzas, and you use that to put on an exact amount. That amount may be conservative compared to other chains, but the wording of the comment suggested there's a bit of eyeballing in how much cheese is applied, which was not true for me then, and I doubt is true now.

I don't care how much this pizza 🍕 costs I am hungry now 🤤

I worked at LC back in the day. The more toppings on the pie, the less cheese we used. Company policy put the most cheese on a cheese pizza. A little less was used on 1 topping pizzas. The least amount of cheese was used on the ones with all the toppings. It worked because a pizza with lots of toppings with less cheese looked just as cheesy as a straight up cheese pizza because your eye just assumes there is cheese under the toppings.

I worked at two different little Caesar’s in two different franchises, and we only ever used one kind of cheese blend, it was not one blend for certain pizzas and another for the hot and ready. We made the sauce from a tomato base in #10 cans, sugar, water, and spice blends. The dough was made every morning as well.

If you think LCs is "bland", just add red pepper flakes or black pepper. That works for me.

Love the Pretzel pizza from Little Caesars. There deep dish is awesome too. No other chain makes one like it!

3:14 my first job was here. We had measuring cups for everything.

I've always loved their $5.00 pizza. Perfect amount of crust to cheese to pepperoni.

Little Caesars offers a very serviceable selection of pizzas at reasonable prices.A great place to buy pizza in bulk for events and possibly the least greasy of the major chains.

I was a GM for Little Caesars for about 11 years. We used to make the sauce and grate the cheese (mozzarella/muenster blend), but they finally switched to pre-shredded cheese and premixed sauce to save money and get better consistency. The one thing I saw never changed was every day we made dough fresh daily by cutting/weighing/rolling it and storing it in the cooler for use the next day. I still think their crust is as good as anyone else's.

I would add to this that even though they have a focus on cost and convenience, the level of quality you get for the cost is still spot on. Add to that the ability to produce the product at the same quality consistently and you have a winning strategy.

Does anyone remember their PIZZA PIZZA deal In the 80s ? The darn box took up the back seat. My dad had a coupon from the back of the TV guide. We had it every Sunday night . Wow that was so long ago

Say what you will about Little Caesars pepperoni Hot and Ready pizzas, but I had ordered a Pizza Hut medium double pepperoni pizza, expecting a copious amount of pepperoni, and got a very disappointing bland pizza that is actually smaller for triple the price and the same amount of toppings that a normal Little Caesars pepperoni pizza comes with. I should've just drove to Little Caesars and got a Hot and Ready or gone to Aldi and got one of their ready to cook pizzas.

Pizza pizza! That’s what the skipper said up in Alaska when we went out on the fishing boats at the rec center in Seward. When someone got sick on their boat, they would get on the radio and your pizza pizza so the other guys could laugh.

Like 3 out of the 4 Little Caesars in my town are located in strip malls next to Chinese take-out and Nail salons, and all 3 are owned by the same people, and all 3 are always fast/friendly/cheap

The Little Caesars where I grew up was great. Their food was easily on par with more expensive places, but their make to stock system for serving customers through the hot and ready was revolutionary in the pizza world. I also liked how it wasn't overly saucy or cheesy, and never found it to be skimpy. It was just right, and this place was always busy. Everyone went there at seemingly all times of the day. Granted, I lived near a busier neighborhood in a bigger city than I do now, but compared to the big guys and family chains alike, they were definitely serving more people on average than others in the area. Their cheese bread was great, and their simple efficient kitchen design means that far fewer mistakes were made than in Dominos or Pizza Hut. They would like never fuck up your order even if you wanted something other than the basic peperoni, and I'm not remotely surprised to see the chain still doing well. Something big that I feel people overlook when it comes to their cost and simplicity model is how much more that matters with people with lots of kids, or just a bunch of people hanging out who aren't loaded.

I worked at little Caesars the sauce has pre made spices in a liquid water seasoning and real tomatoe sauce !!!! They take tomatoe sauce put it in a big container and mix the seasoned water in it .

When you have kids, this place is a lifesaver for pizza nights and not bad tasting for the money. Sadly, it put a few of the local pizza places out of business that made side stuff like cheesesteaks, burgers & fries, buffalo wings and chicken cutlet sandwiches.

I always assumed they just recycled their cardboard into fresh pizzas

I love their Detroit style pizza. It's a bit more expensive, but delicious and totally worth it.

25 years ago they mixed the tomato sauce with a spice package, the cheese was an in-house grind of big blocks of mozz and provolone, they even had pita pockets for subs (they were quite good actually).

LC finally started returning to our area, but now receding again. I loved the 1 closest to my moms (my childhood) home, which had a DRIVE-THRU! But damn, they closed. Only a few years of that. I like the pizza. It’s not great, but it is not bad either. I’m not that picky about pizza.

Wow! That was some mind blowing information!! So, in summation, your cheap pizza is cheap because it’s cheap? No way!!!!

Little Ceasars is universally respected and will forever be. They have saved many people's morale many many times. Being out of money should't prevent someone from eating something delicious.

Just got home from work right now, not eating any lunch during the day and chowing down on a hot and ready. I would buy this pizza for $10! I just love it that much

Little caesars has always been my favorite,love their pizza and garlic parmesan cheese crazy crust yummy!!!

I never understood the hate little caesars gets. Sure it's obviously not the best pizza around. But it's one of those things that when you're in the mood for it, it slaps. And just for a little over 5 bucks too. I remember I used to spend nights over at a friend's house playing video games, watching movies and eating little caesars. So good.

I'll take Little Caesars $5 to $8 drive through Hot-N-Ready no waiting large pizzas all day over Domino's, Pizza Hut or Papa Johns $14 to $18 then wait 40 min. large pizzas. Not to mention the bread sticks.

While I typically prefer a true NY pizza (Im from there) at almost $20, I find Little Caesars more than acceptable, better than Papa John’s or Domino’s. And there is no waiting, and cheap. Winner.

Wow I love this!

I ate little Caesar’s a month ago and I had terrible diarrhea and stomach aches for a week

I've worked for LC by for over 10 years and live in Detroit. LC doesn't cut any corners and the make dough FRESH daily. And we use fresh grated Mozzarella and Munster cheese. And I 🥰 everything about this pizza chain! There other place is Domino's... That uses frozen cheese and frozen Dough 🤔!

I love Little Ceasars.As a customer&As a former employee.Its a Great Business with great people who both work there or buy from there.Respectful;-My own oppinion&voice.thank you. I absolutely LOVE LITTLE CEASARS

I used to work in the restaurant industry. LCs actually uses a lot of the same ingredients. Greed is what makes the other guys pizza more expensive. LCs makes up for that by the sheer number of pizzas that they sell. And, they're damned good! At least, around here they are.