That’s $30 for a no-topping cheese+sauce only pizza. Toppings are $4 ea. A family that likes 4 toppings are looking to spend $46 for a thin crust 16 incher.
Although they do have a small selection of common types where you get between 2 and 4 toppings for just a $7 increment, so $37.
Aside about pizza places in general …
It’s common to offer that deal: some few multi-topping pizzas for less than the price of the individual toppings added to a plain. In those cases, do the combos get smaller amounts of the individual toppings? Said another way, if you get your multiple toppings a la carte, do they apply more of each them for a more heavily dressed-up pizza?
To add to the above, their slogan is “we lay it on thick.” So, if you like generous amounts of toppings on your pizza, Beggar’s may be the place for you.
I typed
“individual pizza with store bought dough”
And got an ai summary that said:
Preparation
Bring to room temperature: Remove the store-bought dough from its packaging and place the desired portions in lightly oiled bowls, covered with plastic wrap or a clean towel, for at least 30-60 minutes before use. This makes the dough easier to shape and stretch without tearing.
Preheat oven: Preheat your oven to a high temperature, ideally 450°F (232°C) or higher, with a pizza stone or a lightly oiled, cornmeal-dusted baking sheet inside. A hot surface helps create a crispy crust.
Prepare dough portions: On a lightly floured surface, divide the dough into individual portions (a 1 lb bag typically yields 2 large or 4-6 small pizzas). Roll or press each portion into a round or square shape, leaving the edges slightly thicker for a crust.
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It went on to give assembly and baking instructions. That seems to answer some of your questions. Divide first, into 4-6 pieces. Or divide right before you shape the pizzas. I’m going to guess it’s ambiguous because there are recipes each way.
And also, wouldn’t any recipe for individual pizza work if you just pick up where it gives you a ball of dough?
Are we using a different Google? I did a search for “pre-made” pizza dough recipes. Yes, it now has an AI attempt of a summary at the top of the results, but immediately below that, all of the results actually have the term pre-made somewhere on the site, and helpfully, it knows that “Store bought” is the same thing and included hits using that term as well.
Yup but not personal pizza with pre made dough. You can get large pre-made pizza dough recipes, and personal sized home made dough recipes. But no combination of search terms and quotes will give you that specific thing.
It’s just an example of how much Google has gotten worse at specific queries in recent years. It’s gotten better at vague queries but is basically useless at specific queries (if there is a closely related but generic answer that is more popular)
Like I mentioned before though, I don’t think that’s a Google problem. Clearly pre-made pizza dough is usually sold in sizes big enough for a full sized pizza, otherwise it’s not worth buying. If you want smaller pizzas, cut the dough into smaller sizes. It really does not matter at what point you cut it. The reason you aren’t getting hits is more likely because none of the recipe websites think that this is something that has to be spelled out, or if you really just want one or two tiny pizzas, its much easier and cheaper to just make the dough yourself. I’m willing to bet you’d have the same issue finding results that spell out exactly what you want if you were doing a Google search in 2005.
And just to include something of a cite, here’s one of the results from my search:
You can clearly see that it’s a personal-sized pizza, although it’s not explicitly stated what size the store-bought pizza dough comes in or if you have to cut it down.
No it’s not! That’s one of the recipes I looked at and it assumes you are making one large pizza. There are no instructions for how to subdivide the dough into smaller pizzas…
Place the dough on the semolina and begin stretching it to your desired shape without pressing the edges.
Put the stretched-out pizza dough on a sheet of baking paper and sprinkle salt on top
It’s whatever pizza you get from making a single pizza from an undivided portion of pre-made dough. Actually that’s a pretty useless recipe, whatever size you want to make, as it doesn’t say how much pizza dough to use! It just says
Store-bought pizza dough
Maybe that guy’s local supermarket sells it in 4oz portions, but mine doesn’t. (Neither do most other people’s based on the other recipes which say “1lb bag of dough”) What if my supermarket sells it in 10lb bags? That recipe will end up with a pretty hefty pizza!
Again, it’s pizza. Notice the recipe does not include any exact amounts of anything. It’s pizza, not a cake. Cut the dough to whatever size you want. use as much sauce, cheese, toppings as you want. There’s no need to spell these out in a pizza recipe. You are overthinking pizza. That’s my point. Pizza is about technique and that’s what the recipes are going to focus on. Everything scales to as big or as small that you want to make it.
Yeah it’s a pretty useless recipe. It might as well just say “make a pizza”. If I don’t know how to put cheese on a pizza why would I know the right amount of dough to use for a pizza?
Not that recipe being useless is Google’s fault, but it being the top link (despite not using the term “personal pizza” which I explicitly searched for in quotes) is.
Perhaps she can share what weight of dough ball they use for their various diameters and crust thicknesses. That’ll let the OP compute one data point they’re now lacking: how many personal-sized portions they’ll get from the specific weight of premade doughball they buy.
She’s super busy, tonight and tomorrow being the worst, and is semi-nocturnal due to the work hours. So it may be a day or two before we get an answer.
Note this batch actually ended up without tomato sauce due to miscommunication with my wife’s cousin who was helping me. They all ended up great. The kids love them (and loved putting their own toppings on, which was the reason for going with personal sized pizzas)
Well, good! My husband always wants to do personal pizzas when we have a group of people over, but we never actually do it. I always think we’ll get too bogged down working on the dough and people will be standing around hungry.
Exactly! Personal pizza isn’t a codified standard, with a reference pie preserved in the same facility where they keep the reference kilogram and what not. At times in my life, a personal pizza was 16”. Can’t pull that off now, but cherish the memories of when I could.
In my experience as a past pizza professional™ (I was the prep cook at a popular college town pizza joint and made all the dough for the year I was there) I always just made the dough balls about the size I thought they should be for the various sizes we had. No measuring. See, the magic of dough is that you can remove some if things are getting too big. You can add some if things are too small. It’s unfuckupable. Trust me. I was only 20 and usually hungover.
