Food Theory: STOP Ordering Your Pizza Like This!

We've taught you how to optimize your order of french fries and what fast food soda size is the best bang for your buck! Now, get ready for PIZZA! That's right, Theorists. We put out the orders to some of the most popular pizza places to figure out what order gets you the best pizza. Who are our competitors? Enter Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, and Little Caesars! What pizza reigns supreme? Well, it's NOT the supreme...

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Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats
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[emmasgoodies]

6:30, if you check the nutritional info on Domino's website it says this: " When you add a topping, the cheese portion is reduced to ensure a proper bake". :)

[chloehenke]

As a current pizza chain employee, I can honestly say the “base” cheese pizza will have significantly more cheese than a pepperoni pizza because the “base” cheese pizza is considered one topping. They scale back on the cheese when it comes to actually adding toppings to reduce grease factor and gives the pizza a chance to cook correctly.

[roadwarrya]

As a former Domino’s employee, there’s guidelines to how much toppings and cheese each pizza gets depending on how many toppings there are and the size of the pizza. For example, a normal cheese pizza would have more cheese as opposed to one with toppings like pepperoni so that it comes out of the oven looking right and it’s more cost effective for the company.

[SelttiksYT]

Little Caesars employee here: "The more toppings you get, the less toppings you get." meaning, the more toppings you order, the less of each of those we put on, due to making sure the pizza bakes properly, and to reduce production cost.

[InactivePhoenix]

Worked at Domino’s for 2 years, was trained to put double cheese on cheese-only pizzas and to hold back on toppings the more they add so that it’ll all cook evenly in the oven

[ComicDrake]

I used to work at Papa John's. Totally on the money for the extra cheese being used to cover the sauce. Papa J's specifically taught us to put the cheese on last as a seal for the toppings.

[ric-sauce]

Former Little Caesar's employee here. The reason all of our pizzas have the same weight of ingredients across the board is because we are given very specific instructions for how to top our pizzas, down to the gram, as to not waste any money by giving extra. A standard medium pepperoni pizza is topped with exactly five ounces of cheese (yes, we have a scale to weigh the cheese) and exactly twenty-four pepperoni slices. That's why our base pizza stays the exact same every time

[crazymae]

Hey guys! Former Pizza Hut line cook here to *weigh* in about the pizza weight! We have standard sized cheese measuring cups for pizzas of different sizes! A 14-in any ONE-THREE TOPPING pizza (regardless of crust) gets a large scoop, but once you break that three topping limit, or even if you just get pepperoni with extra pepperoni, you drop down to a medium cheese scoop. (Then for my location, a small cheese scoop on top of the extra pep) I was told it’s to help prevent the extra roni’s from weighing down the dough while it bakes but Idk.
Yes I realized this video is two years old

[thecrowinthewindow]

4:55 so I would like to explain something here. I work at a Pizza Hut and have for a while now and the reason the cheese weighs more is because if a pizza Is just cheese with no toppings we have to add an extra half a cup of cheese that way the customer isn't being screwed over for just ordering cheese. But when we add pepperoni we don't put on that extra cheese therefore it ways less. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[onlyadot]

As a chef who specializes in Italian cuisine i can say that the more toppings you have on a pizza the less of each topping you will get. It's not supposed to be a bad thing. If you pile the same amount of cheese on a pepperoni pizza as you do a cheese pizza it will be a soggy greasy mess.

[DisillusionedReality]

As someone who used to work at Pizza Hut, the company actually tells its employees to put less cheese on pizzas that have toppings. It’s less like a cheese pizza is the base that you add toppings onto, and more that you’re replacing the “extra” cheese on a cheese pizza with toppings. It’s been a while, but I believe it was a cheese pizza had a cup of cheese on it and a pizza with toppings had half a cup of cheese on it.

[dabricadilica]

As a previous dominos employee, we were always taught to put as little cheese as possible, especially on pizzas with toppings

[Totterino]

I love little Caesar’s advertising because in their ads or promotions they never use the words good or delicious or anything like that. All they say in description of their pizza is that it is hot and it is ready and it is cheap

[notsoninjaninja]

Hi my girlfriend told me this:

“With a lot of pizzas, with more toppings we have to add less cheese to counteract the amounts of grease from the meats, if you got veggie toppings it shouldn’t alter much. Even so, if you ever worked at a pizza place we all know we just grab a handful or two of cheese according to how ever many other toppings there are or aren’t”

[jrok]

Don't forget that Lil Caesars also makes their own dough in the back instead of having the dough already made elsewhere and delivered

[shadles]

Papa John’s worker here, there is a “base” pizza it just never goes out. If you order a cheese pizza you’re getting the base with its cheese +more cheese on top of it. While a pepperoni pizza is the base +pepperoni which gets much less and weighs less than the extra cheese

[loganlaviolette]

Ex Dominos manager here. I don’t remember the exact measurements, but a large cheese would get 10oz mozzarella, a 1 top would get 8oz mozzarella, and a speciality that included cheese would get 5oz. Also, the more toppings you order, the less of each you get. A large pepperoni would get exactly 40 pepperonis. A 2 or 3 top would get 30, and a 5 top would get 25. Every pizza chain does this with their toppings, to save money and also so the pizza can actually cook underneath all the meat and veggies.

[its_lemon_]

Imagine being his son and seeing all that pizza and getting excited then your Dad says No it's for science

[VirgoArtsOfficial]

Domino’s employee here, who has run both the oven and make line. I can confirm, we go lighter on the cheese on pizzas with toppings. This is because the company actually has pre-determined portions we’re expected to follow.

[CogsworthHPalmer]

Hey MatPat, I used to work at Papa John's in Canada. The cheese issue was actually a practice put in place by the company. A large pepperoni pizza came with 2 cups of cheese, but a large cheese pizza came with 2 and a half cups of cheese. A large pepperoni pizza gets 32 pepperoni slices on it, but an extra pepperoni pizza gets 16 extra pepperoni, and because the pepperoni is on top of the cheese, there's a higher chance for pepperonis to fly off in the oven, so you're potentially getting around 40 or so.