I don't know why people order pizza for delivery anymore

[Anonymous]

Due to increased food and delivery cost, getting pizza delivered is not longer the bargain it used to be. You can sometimes find deals from the chains, but the quality isn't great and even those deals aren't always that economical.

You can make really good pizza at home without that much effort. I'm making Detroit-style pizza tonight and it's stupid-easy if you have a proper Detroit-style pan. I had to but the dough for the crust together on my lunch hour, but it took 10 minutes. I just made the sauce -- also 10 minutes. Now I'll put the sauce and toppings on and throw it in the oven. I'll have spent maybe 30 minutes actively cooking and we'll have pizza for tonight and either lunch or dinner tomorrow, for 4 people, for around $15 plus the cost of a salad ($6 on cheese, $3 on on sauce, $5 on pepperoni, $1-2 in ingredients for the dough - flour, yeast, salt).

The same amount of pizza ordered would cost us around $40, plus tip for the delivery driver. Even if we splurged on fancy toppings for pizza at home (sometimes we buy fancy peppers, mushrooms, olives, etc.), we're still looking at half the cost of ordering. My time is worth something too, but I enjoy cooking well enough and 30 minutes is nothing, especially when spread out over the course of the day.

Just throwing this out there. We haven't ordered pizza from a delivery place in years, and we rarely go out for pizza anymore either because we can eat such tasty pizza at home.

[Anonymous]

I never have food delivered. The one time I did, it was cold and the wrong order. I prefer to pick-up orders myself, and I check the order in the restaurant.

[Anonymous]

We don’t order much pizza for delivery, but that’s mainly because we like Ledo’s, and they don’t deliver.

I don’t care whether you like Ledo’s or not, BTW.

[Anonymous]

I agree. Now we make it at home (super cheap and everyone can make their own) or we go to a nicer restaurant and have pizza there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Due to increased food and delivery cost, getting pizza delivered is not longer the bargain it used to be. You can sometimes find deals from the chains, but the quality isn't great and even those deals aren't always that economical.

You can make really good pizza at home without that much effort. I'm making Detroit-style pizza tonight and it's stupid-easy if you have a proper Detroit-style pan. I had to but the dough for the crust together on my lunch hour, but it took 10 minutes. I just made the sauce -- also 10 minutes. Now I'll put the sauce and toppings on and throw it in the oven. I'll have spent maybe 30 minutes actively cooking and we'll have pizza for tonight and either lunch or dinner tomorrow, for 4 people, for around $15 plus the cost of a salad ($6 on cheese, $3 on on sauce, $5 on pepperoni, $1-2 in ingredients for the dough - flour, yeast, salt).

The same amount of pizza ordered would cost us around $40, plus tip for the delivery driver. Even if we splurged on fancy toppings for pizza at home (sometimes we buy fancy peppers, mushrooms, olives, etc.), we're still looking at half the cost of ordering. My time is worth something too, but I enjoy cooking well enough and 30 minutes is nothing, especially when spread out over the course of the day.

Just throwing this out there. We haven't ordered pizza from a delivery place in years, and we rarely go out for pizza anymore either because we can eat such tasty pizza at home.

You have your answer there. That's not true for everyone.

[Anonymous]

We like 2 Amy's pizza so do take out from there. But even that isn't as good as eating in the restaurant. I'm excited about the new AP Pizza in Bethesda though.

we have an Ooni and make our own pizza a lot, but not in the winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never have food delivered. The one time I did, it was cold and the wrong order. I prefer to pick-up orders myself, and I check the order in the restaurant.

Had to check the date to see if I wrote this, but I didn't. Although same experience. Pizza places seem to be getting rid of their in house delivery drivers so we don't order pizza much anymore because we don't want to use the food delivery service. We just pick it up ourselves. Guaranteed to still be hot and cheaper.

[Anonymous]

I hate cooking

[Anonymous]

Disagree, I can't make as good a pizza at home as a good pizzeria. I don't have an 800 degree oven, sadly.

[Anonymous]

We make our own pizza 95% of the time. Sometimes you just want to eat the garbage pizza that takes no work at all.

[Anonymous]

Pizza is usually the go to on days people don’t want to cook. It has definitely gotten expensive though. I’ve found that the quality of frozen pizza is so good now, it’s better than some of the places we order from! So now I just buy frozen pizza.

[Anonymous]

When I order pizza it's not from a chain.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a go-to recipe for Detroit style pizza, OP? What pan do you like?
- Detroiter, missing Buddy's

[Anonymous]

Pizza is crazy expensive! I only order it every couple of months and do get it delivered because it's on a day when I just do not want to cook or clean up. I used to make it so I agree it can be done easily. We used to also buy Bobolis, use jar sauce and grated mozzarella when my kids were little.

[Anonymous]

We never order pizza delivery, but we also never make our own pizzas. Wegmans or TJs frozen pizzas for the win!