I ask because my daughter (15) loves DOMINO’s! I can’t stand this crap-to me, DOMINOs tastes like moldy cardboard. I also haven’t got much good to say about the others:
-PAPA GINOS: metallic-tasting tomato sauce, strange cheese (resembles melted plastic)
-SHAKEY’s: stale-tasting, dough-like crust, undercooked?
-GODFATHERS: weird cheese taste-maybe synthetic cheese?
-PIZZA HUT: the worst; ordors of stale vomit, pizza kept indefinately, it seems
So what has been your experience-are there any GOOD chain pizzas? I heard CALIIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN is OK (but the thought of chicken and goat cheese on pizza makes me ill). I do find that PIZZARIA UNO is pretty good (if you like thick-crust pizza).
And, DON’T EVEN CONSIDER frozen pizza-most of this stuff I would not feed to a pig;it is horrible!
Pizza Express are good; thin bases with various Italian styles of topping. The restaurants are in fact retaurants which try to create a differeent atmosphere in each one.
However for your purposes, ralph124c, they are, I fear, on the wrong side of the Atlantic; sorry.
This is not an attempt to be cryptic, nor is it a peculiar local usage. It’s just bad typing.
Well I like odd pizza flavores bbq chicken ect teryaki chicken ect
But a small chain called red brick is good and they have good normal pizza and the exotic flavores i like
papa johns is pretty good
But the best pizza Ive had is actually from a all you can eat chienese buffet (they put it out for the little kiddies)
But I tend to get my pizza from actual restrants and hole inthe walls rather than chains
It’s not like decent pizza is all that hard to make. With large chains, it all depends on the local franchisee. But if the objects are being fast and cheap, then quality will take a hit.
You mentioned Uno’s, which I’ve had good experiences with. And I’ve been pleased with our local Papa Johns.
If you’ve got a local chain that people like, go with that. In northern Virginia, Generous George’s has a few locations, and they’re excellent.
I’m a big big fan of Papa John’s. Only problem with that stuff is it isn’t very good cold, so you have to eat the whole damn thing at once.
I like Papa John’s and think it’s fine cold. Pepperoni, onions, mushrooms, bell pepper & anchovies…mmmmmmmmmm. It’s whats for breakfast !
I have found Little Caesar’s to generally be the best takeout pizza no matter what city I’m in. Their pizza tastes good hot, cold or any temperature in between. Too bad the last one in my town closed up last year. 
CiCi’s has good pizza for the price, $3.99 for all you can eat. They’ll even make a pizza for you special order. It’s not bad for the price.
Rocky Roccoco makes good pizza. Square/rectangular tho.
Don’t know if RR exists outside of Wisconsin tho.
Brian
I actually like Pizza Hut. Lots of cheese, crispy crust, etc.
I’ve found Round Table to be just dandy.
So’s California Pizza Kitchen, although it’s a very small chain and they have non-traditional pizzas.
Hungry Howies is my favorite, especially with the butter cheese crust.
I tend not to like pizza from chain places. I’ve found though that Dominos okay, but it depends on the type of crust and toppings (their veggie toppings on the hand tossed crust with extra sauce is the only thing I’ll order from them). OIP (Central PA chain) is really good, but only when hot. They have a very thin crust, NY style, cheesy greasy pizza. Not good cold, but great hot. Rocky’s in western MD is good too. Papa John’s is okay (I don’t like their sauce, but my friends love them). Pizza Hut’s new Chicago Dish is good also (but not other pizza hut stuff).
I do have the incredible luck of living directly above the most wonderful pizza place ever–Al’s Pizza in Mercersburg. Great pizza–dough and sauce made fresh daily, fresh toppings. Al makes great pizza–dough is not too thick and not too thin, just the right amount of sauce. Prices are cheap, and Al is a great person. Very friendly, nice, helpful. I get pizza from him almost every week. I smell it cooking from my apartment and it gets the better of me.
Another vote here for Papa John’s. I like the sweet taste of their tomato sauce.
Mmmm, anyone else like Donato’s? They’re a chain that I’ve spring up here in the Atlanta area over the last 3 years or so. They’re the best chain pizza place, as far as I’m concerned.
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Yeah, I’m also a big fan of Papa Johns, although I don’t hold many illusions that it’s really all that “good”. I just like it.
I’d also like to throw in a vote for Giordano’s, but they don’t have many locations (almost all in the Chicago area), so I don’t know if you would consider it a chain, per se.
I like Pizza Hut myself. I’ll eat Domino’s, but Papa John’s makes me sick any time I eat it. I also like Red Baron frozen mini pizzas, cooked in a toaster oven nice and crispy.
Of course I really like getting a piece of french bread, adding some Italian tomato sauce, and adding my own toppings to cook it in the toaster oven…delicious.
Little Caesar’s was pretty good ten years ago - but nowadays, the stuff I’ve had form them is horrible - overly doughy crust (rather than crisp), near-liquid cheese, and so forth. Ugh. Incidentally, the only place you can find them in Atlanta these days is corporate locations inside KMart stores, so it isn’t a franchise problem; possibly you’ve just run into stores owned by a good franchisee.
Of course, the only good pizza on the planet is from Rubino’s in Columbus, OH - but CPK is pretty acceptable.
Well, I gave up on them when I found that oven rising pizza tastes better- to me anyway. I think I read a Consumer Reports & they said the same thing. Fresceta (sp) rates pretty high with me. Be sure the read the instructions on cooking them. They are yummy & the dough tastes fresh & I don’t have to concern myself with where the dough tosser’s hands were before.