Is pizza a scam? (ingredients, freeze, Italian, cheapest)

[CA central coast]

How much overhead goes into making a pizza? 25-30 bucks for a large pizza? Is this not the biggest food scam out there.

[arsbadmojo]

Where the heck are you paying $30 for a pizza?

I could make a black truffle pizza that would be a few hundred dollars, but I don't think I've paid more than $20 for a large recently.

As I always point out in these threads, you can make your own for under $10, and probably less than that if you've got some of the ingredients sitting around.

[LaceyEx]

We pay 6.99 for a large 1 topping.

[Beretta]

We pay less than $10 for a large one topping pizza from the Italian guy with the specialized shop. We pay $6.99 or so from the chain.

I would imagine that the heavy duty ovens and equipment are what drive the costs up. I love a brick oven pizza though and will go out of my way to purchase a pizza from there.

The pizza guy I buy from imports the wheat he uses for the pizza dough because it isn't found around here. You can definitely taste the difference and I will gladly pay.

The OP must live in a place that has inflated prices. I would cry if I had to pay that much for a pizza. After I got done crying I would probably move. LOL

[Pilot1]

Originally Posted by CA central coast

How much overhead goes into making a pizza? 25-30 bucks for a large pizza? Is this not the biggest food scam out there.

Get out of California and you will pay less than half of that for a large pizza.

[pitt_transplant]

Yes the mark-up on any take-out food is a high one. Especially pizza.

Make your own and freeze them. Just make a night of it. So much cheaper and easy for later on.

[OzzyRules]

If it were a scam there would be no pizzerias. They've been around about a hundred years now.

[CA central coast]

Well, I've always thought pizza was overpriced. The other day at Round Table I paid $28 for an x-tra large combination pizza. It's not that much bigger than a large, which was $20. To me, that's a scam. The cheapest, Domino's, is $15 for a one topping large.

[Nomadicus]

Part of the cost of every pizza there is related to the cost of CA real estate and taxes and insurances. Much more than the cost of flour and pepperoni.

[arsbadmojo]

Originally Posted by CA central coast

Well, I've always thought pizza was overpriced. The other day at Round Table I paid $28 for an x-tra large combination pizza. It's not that much bigger than a large, which was $20. To me, that's a scam. The cheapest, Domino's, is $15 for a one topping large.

That might be a rip-off, but I don't think it qualifies as a scam.

And don't forget high school geometry. A = 3.14 * r * r

So, for example, let's compare a 12 inch medium, 14" large and 16" Xtra large:

Medium = 12"
r squared (12 x 12) = 144 square inches.
144 x 3.14 = 452 square inches for a medium

Large = 14"
r squared (14 x 14) = 196 square inches
196 x 3.14 = 615 square inches

Xtra Large = 16"
r squared (16 x 16) = 256 square inches
256 x 3.14 = 803 square inches

So the XL is "only 2 inches" bigger than the large, but there's a difference of 188 square inches. That works out to just a bit smaller than an 8" individual pizza.