Food Theory: STOP Ordering Your Pizza Like This!

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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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[@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". :)

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

As someone who works at a Pizza Hut, I think I can confirm the same here.

[@BlitzzOrAnt]

Ok

[@killingstalker2114]

It's cause both Pizza Hut and Domino's both add extra cheese as a topping if you're getting no toppings in order to ensure full coverage of the dough/sauce and to make it "worth your buck"

[@shinemoon5113]

Ok

[@Unknownstl1]

@@ninjabluefyre3815 Same

[@chloehenke1046]

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.

[@PrincessJax268]

I was gonna say that. There's a place called Mod Pizza where you can get all the toppings you want for $8.99. The only thing they tell you is if you get too many toppings the pizza won't cook evenly.

[@darken2417]

This is why Chicago style is the best. Loads of cheese, loads of toppings, no excuses.

[@nonyobussiness3440]

@@darken2417 Chicago thin crust baby

[@raegibson3066]

We used to tell ppl at Pizza Hut that there was a limit as to how many toppings you could put on a pizza or it would not cook through. Pizzas with bacon had to go through 1.5 times in the oven to make sure that the bacon cooked as it was raw on the maketable or frozen otherwise.

[@perseusarkouda]

@@darken2417 Heart attack, no return.

[@austinjones1268]

Hiya MatPat! I used to work in a pizza restaurant chain and we were actually trained to give less cheese when extra toppings were added. It’s partially a cost cutting measure, but more importantly different toppings have different moisture levels that, when baked, change the overall texture (i.e. veggies and greasy meats soak into the sauce, dough, and cheese , which can lead to undercooked middles and overcooked crusts). Plus, too many toppings can trap heat and moisture, which can lead to an uneven melting of cheese. 9 times out of 10 if the pizza doesn’t look “aesthetically pleasing” the customer will request a new one, which means the original gets wasted. Hope this helped to provide some insight! :)

[@Mrkaka376]

That makes a lot of sense, I noticed if I order thin crust its somewhat loaded with veggies probably cause they don't worry about it being soggy

[@0potion]

​@@Mrkaka376That's exactly yet and if you get a panstile pizza they will put less ingredients on it. Because if too much weight gets put on top of that dough it collapses in the Pan and Then it doesn't cook right you'll have a layer of uncooked dough in The Middle of it.

[@dealameal5242]

cheese is the most expensive topping of all toppings

[@mathewlett9104]

As i suspected

[@tlouitas]

Let’s just take a minute to thank all the former restaurant employees who told us about the pizza weight problem. Thanks guys.

[@daniel.acosta2739]

Not all heroes wear capes!!! 🦸‍♂️ 😂

[@Inpersona64]

@@daniel.acosta2739 exactly! some wear aprons 😅😅

[@anywherewithphil9841]

Two of my favorite types of people: anybody at Domino’s for such a fantastic yummy “base of the food pyramid” treasure, anybody delivering Amazon to my front door… they get to be Santa Claus every day of the year!!!

[@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.

[@A_Person7307]

Makes sense

[@ethancohen6092]

@@veryhot2382 no one cares

[@Pperry0211]

@@veryhot2382 yeah no one cares about this video

[@somebodysomeone6834]

Never knew that.

[@youtopea]

Same at pizza hut, also at least at the hut, never order double pepperoni/ham with a third topping, you won't get your money's worth for that double pep

[@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.

[@Femaiden]

your logic seems sound, that to create balance and not overload it, they need to put less, but then they charge a flat price for each individual topping regardless of how much they give you. so the more toppings you ask for , the more you pay, but the less you get and that just seems dishonest.

[@PTMcMullen]

Consider that you're paying for the added labor to prepare a multi-topping pizza.

[@onlyadot]

@@Femaiden you're paying for a hypothetical pizza not a specific amount of each topping down to the ounce. There is not a single pizza cook in the world who gives that many damns about his job to where he would purposefully deceive a customer just to save the restaurant some money. The idea of a cook wanting to save a chefs food cost at the expense of the customer is actually quite funny to me.

[@epanagnus7453]

That would make all of Little Caesars pizzas with toppings a soggy mess, but they arent

[@vic_710]

@@onlyadot Well tbh I'm not saying who's right or wrong but a huge pizza chain like dominos or pizza hut saving toppings would definitely add up in the cost region right?

[@crazymae173]

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

[@Generic_Human10]

i didnt know that lol pretty cool

[@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 the reduce production cost.

[@darknessgenkai]

As a domino’s employee I know that when we make a cheese only pizza we actually put extra cheese by default

[@user-rn2yx2rq3u]

Nice

[@imsauceking]

I work at Casey’s and we do not do this. It’s always 1 scoop of the red cup

[@lolina2000]

Pl

[@consequenceandmorality9937]

Domino’s? Since when did you guys serve pizza or food in general.

[@ladyartist6324]

I'm actually surprised that Little Ceasars is one of the top four, and I'm an employee there.

[@dabricadilica5361]

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

[@michaelazangeres]

I wanted to comment the same thing!

[@SkueyYT]

As a current dominos employee, yes

[@iamjackdude1859]

As expected

[@yehyehyehyehyeh6847]

Shame

[@jonmichels7332]

As a 6 year Domino's employee if you were being told to put "as little as possible" cheese on a pizza that is on your individual GM or franchisee. The Domino's US company standard for cheese on a large is 7 oz for any pizza with toppings. Any just cheese pizzas get 50% more, meaning 10.5 oz on a large.

[@matthewkelly6997]

When I worked at Pizza Hut, they weighed the leftover toppings at the end of the night. If the cost ratio was down for the day, meaning too much toppings were used in respect to how many pies were sold, we would be told to "pull light" when it came to the toppings. I rarely listened and just tried to make a decent pie, one I would want to eat. They rip us off all the time. Thank you for the work you do. Consumers are just cattle to be milked by big business 11:53

[@pupplekao]

I worked there a couple decades ago and remember pissing off the store manager when we hand-specced a pizza and it came out right on the nose of how much it was supposed to weigh, according to their charts. He was trying so hard to show us that we didn't know what we were doing and we were putting too much on... all he did was show us that we'd been working there long enough to know what the food was supposed to look like

[@spankynater4242]

It's not a ripoff, you get what you pay for. They know what they're doing, and controlling topics is how they manage costs, and subsequently manage the amount the customer is charged. If enough of you do what you want, then that jacks up the charge, and normal people will be reluctant to buy an overpriced pizza. Don't think you know more than experts, you'll always come out on the bottom.

[@matthewbeggerly52]

​@@spankynater4242 How's that boot taste?

[@devilpistons1269]

​@@matthewbeggerly52nah he's got a point

[@UglyNTRBastard]

@@spankynater4242 If tons of people want more toppings, they should give the customers what they want. If you have to jack up the price: so be it, but honestly these chains get so many bulk food discounts and tax breaks that they can afford to have a loss leader or two. Pizza hut especially needs to pull the stick out of their rear because they are dying and NEED a loss leader to get people to eat their pizza again.

[@TheM0onIsOut._.]

0:21 “18% tip and nobody needs to know about this” “How about 20?” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@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

[@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862]

so what i need to do is double cheese and double toppings then ? hah i usually like cheese only pizzas with way to much extra cheese

[@Stunseed]

we have a recipe for every pizza.. peperoni gets 32 peps.. all meat gets 8 or combo pizza got 6 all evenly spaced out. a pizza thats a double topping yea. itd get cut from the 32 so like 20.. but man cheese only pizzas? we still cover the whole thing in all the cheese we can hahha, its a process. like bread sticks, larger bread sticks are better than a pizza with a million toppings because bread with cheese will fill people up pretty quickly. and its cheap

[@teuns9]

can confirm (topping count)+ -> (number of pieces per topping)-

[@TheDaemon333]

I used to work at Pizza Hut, and it's mostly the same there. The more toppings you get, the less of each one you get, otherwise you get this mess of undercooked pizza

[@monroerobbins7551]

That’s what I was thinking! It makes sense that when they put toppings on, they’d have to go light on cheese, so it’ll bake evenly. That’s why thin crust, IMO, is great for extra cheese and toppings; it’ll cook through more quickly, and you won’t have to worry as much about raw dough. Though, you’ll lose out on structural stability, cause it’s thin. And honestly, I don’t get why they don’t split cheese on bottom and top: the cheese on bottom to glue the toppings on, and the cheese on top to seal it in. And I don’t get why they don’t dice veggies like bell peppers, it’ll help with structure, and is probably easier: just get a big ol dicer (though I imagine washing may be a problem). If people know more about this, please edify me, cause I don’t know as much, and I don’t wanna claim as such.

[@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

[@EvilEtho]

I know this video is old now, but this is the reason, Or at least how we ran it at the 4 pizza huts I have worked at and the 2 I have managed

[@kylefentress1381]

Pizza hut employee here, same case at our restaurant lmao. we sauce and cheese em first in the morning, then when an order is placed we add the topings accordingly.

[@shadles]

well... I’d say you’ve come to the correct video, just look up XD For me I got a lot of free pizza from when I used to work at papa johns, though I don’t work there anymore. we get our dough cold and make the entire pizza at the moment it’s ordered, I ate it weekly and never got sick of it, cause it’s pretty high quality. honestly I do think it’s a pizza worth it’s price, but I’m a cheepskate if I’m paying for pizza just to fill my stomach I go with little Caesars. If I’m going to get at actual good pizza then I’m going to Papa Johns. (Or like a mom and pop pizza place)

[@shadles]

@@kylefentress1381 wild, we got dough in the morning. Like a stack of trays would come in with some refrigerated papa John’s brand dough. But the craftsmen would make the pizza right there, tossing the dough, spreading sauce, etc... it’s probably why you guys usually beat us when people would order from two places. (That and we had a tracker that told them if a delivery driver was speeding)

[@tanyaflatley4926]

How do u feel coming last

[@esotericVideos]

9:22 Jesse: "Yo, Mr. Caesar, are we in the pizza business or the money business?" Little Caesar: "Neither... I'm in the empire business."

[@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.

[@thecrowinthewindow3816]

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.

[@JMS...]

Makes sense

[@77dreimaldie0]

Because - as a customer - I expect the cheese to BE the topping, i.e. there's the cheese base plus the cheese topping, ergo more cheese

[@thecrowinthewindow3816]

@@77dreimaldie0 exactly

[@Ka1_TheGuy]

Im eating pizza hut

[@carebear6036]

Same thing at the place I work at. Cheese is a topping, so a plain cheese pizza has extra cheese, it's not the base pizza.(except where I work we add a whole cup, not just a half)

[@ric-sauce1555]

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

[@jasminethegrayknight]

Interesting... 🤔

[@ChazoAnwah]

How long ago did you work there?

[@nguyenvandu4936]

Ok thanks

[@MidnightSnackx]

30 in my day for the standard (2019-2020), EMB got 52 or 54. Also we didn't weigh our cheese, we filled a pre-determined cup. EMBs get more cheese.

[@ric-sauce1555]

@@nguyenvandu4936 I quit in November of 2018, so pretty recent

[@ptorq]

You should also take into account deals that aren't limited time offers. Like, Domino's menu price for a 14 inch pepperoni is $18 ... but there's a carryout special on single topping pizzas that makes them $8 instead, and they've had that deal for the past 2 years or so (before that they had a deal on 3 topping pizzas for about the same price). Little Caesar's just doesn't bother to list the "non-deal" price. So yes Little Caesar's is cheaper even with the deal, but in practice it's not by as much as you'd think by comparing menu prices.

[@lalala7324]

Yep, Domino's has the $6.99 mix and match (was still $5.99 when this video came out). The $14 menu price is just to get suckers to overpay who didn't bother to check for deals. Kinda sad OP went through all this math with the wrong numbers

[@yourliljellie3388]

I currently work at a dominos location and visiting this video makes me so excited. I'm in the process of being cross trained and the main thing I was constantly reminded of was exactly this video in a nutshell. for a regular med hand tossed pizza, it needs to get about 5 Oz of cheese (7oz if you get extra cheese) and about 30-35 pepperonis on each pie. for an extra pepperoni pizza, I remember it's 3 or 5 Oz of cheese and about 40-45 pepperonis per pie. :)

[@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.

[@AuraGemiCreations]

Yep, also worked at pizza hut and can confirm. They had specific specs they wanted us to abide by based on the size of pizza and number of toppings. Past being a new worker, none of us really cared about abiding by the specs too much, especially since they wanted us to make the pizzas so fast. They didn't pay us enough for us to care much about making every pizza exactly the same. More often than not, I feel like the employees are more likely to try and put more than the specs call for on your pizza because just 8 pepperonis on a pizza is ridiculous and WE would want more if it was OUR pizza. From my experience at least.

[@severestarfish981]

uk pizza hut here, for plain margarita pizza we’re supposed to use “a cup and a half”, while for a pizza with toppings it’s just a single cup. half of our staff don’t actually care about it and 90% of the time you’re pizza will have a lot more cheese than it’s supposed to lol.

[@proplaystowin]

That makes sense The cheese pizza isn’t the base the base is a cheese pizza with less cheese+the toppings ([toppings] pizza)

[@jbp9653]

UP

[@RealTeX1]

At papa johns we dont we add more

[@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

[@carbine090909]

Great attention to detail!

[@fluffybluefastboi103]

I like Little Caesar’s a lot, they don’t the BEST pizza obviously, but for $5 it’s pretty dang good pizza

[@averytubestudios]

@@fluffybluefastboi103 Eh... I always prefer New York to Deep Dish but it does fill your stomachs when necessary

[@theshamanite]

@@fluffybluefastboi103 Their topping pizzas went up a dollar last I've heard. It's a shame sales can't compete with inflating costs, or something of ill-will mayhaps, it is a company first.

[@sayimbeautifulok.245]

*IDIOT:D* *kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2q1lWhjja6nldU*

[@mrnarwall]

I work a Sbarro and the recipe book says to use 11 oz for the cheese pizza, and 9 oz for any other pizza with toppings.

[@michaelnelson1127]

Growing up, Little Caesar’s was my family’s go-to pizza place, not just because of their low prices, but because there was a store only 5 minutes away from our house. Plus the pizza being “hot and ready to go” severely cut down on the waiting time, so it was an easy option for Friday suppers. But recently I’ve tried their pizza again, and I’m not sure if it’s the pizza itself or the garlic sauce I typically get with it, but it didn’t agree with my stomach afterwards. Nowadays, my favorite pizza place is Dominos, with Papa John’s coming in second. Dominos has a lot of options and tastes great. Then for Papa John’s, I often get coupons for it in the mail with some good deals, and the complimentary peppers that come with the pizzas is a nice touch.

[@Derxel]

I've tried other pizza restaurants, and even though I work at little caesars and their pizza slaps, other places just do it a little better.

[@its_lemon_19]

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

[@Bruh4.]

I bet they ate them after

[@its_lemon_19]

@@Bruh4. yeah probably

[@acharya1574]

ikr..😔

[@goopgod9537]

They weren’t the ones that ordered them though

[@angeljulianvazquez1483]

Man I would cry if I was his son that's my favorite food

[@MyPisceanNature]

As a former pizza employee, I can definitively say it is NOT the employees. A Papa John's cheese pizza gets 2.5 cups of cheese on a large pizza. A pepperoni gets 2 cups of cheese.

[@aaronstanley6914]

thanks for the info j.j. lol for a second I thought you where J.J. McCullough edit: wow in the span of 5 minutes this post got 43 likes

[@MyPisceanNature]

@@aaronstanley6914 That is alright. Once I saw someone else named J.J. had commented on a video, and I was confused for a moment, because I did not remember commenting on that particular video lol.

[@lizzie0x077]

I second this as a PJ manager! The double pep should have weighed more than the single pep pizza though. Oh. And PJ is going getting rid of cups except for cheese and that sucks for making things the same every time

[@Lovewarhateanddeath]

At my local pizza shop, it was cause there would be too much grease and cause the pizza to be hella soggy if you loaded it up with cheese and peperoni.

[@MyPisceanNature]

@Carl Marchiano Oh, it isn't even the whole 2.5 or 2 cups. Employees are instructed to not scoop the cheese, but to place it in the cup from the other hand. This allows as much empty space to fill the cup as possible, and still TECHNICALLY be said to be "2 cups".

[@abdufotikhakhmedov4539]

I miss him........

[@whitewolfieindahouseroadto9767]

Me to... 😢

[@notfishdog8353]

Tbh my first experience with little Cesar’s extra Pepperoni pizza was crazy. First of all of course as you explained very clearly it was pretty cheap but when we opened the box we were greeted with a mountain of pepperoni, so much we could barely see the actual pizza,and we had to pick off pepperoni so we could actually eat it 😂😂

[@loganlaviolette3494]

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.

[@CarlosATrueG]

I mean obviously not every pizza chain since little ceasers weighed more with the pepperoni

[@brinkman4925]

I works at papa john's like 12 years ago but those numbers seem almost exactly the same. They definitely have the same setup

[@brinkman4925]

Yeah it was very precise. They all were supposed to be put on in a specific pattern to get full coverage and to make sure "every ingredient was in every bite" and something about making sure that the toppings weren't too heavy causing them to separate from the crust. It made sense at the time. Still kinda does actually. Only thing is the price doesn't reflect the reduction in quantity.

[@juancarloscabello3529]

I'm a current GM at Domino's and this is still correct.

[@him050]

I used to work in a restaurant that did create your own pizzas. Getting less of a topping as you order more toppings is just common sense. If you gave the people who ordered 6 toppings the standard amounts you’d end up with a mountain of food on top of the pizza and it won’t cook properly. Not to mention it’ll also be impossible to eat.

[@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.

[@johnmichael8462]

OHOhhhhh....... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIS2d5qNoamVgLc

[@thickskulls]

So... What's the cheese issue?

[@joetheeskimo8885]

Same here at Domino's in America. Our large pizzas get 7.0 oz of cheese, but if it's just a cheese pizza, it gets and an extra 3.5 oz of cheese.

[@Citizen5101]

@@thickskulls The cheese on a cheese pizza is essentially a topping. Some chains (Donatos comes to mind) won't even let you order a half cheese / half pepperoni pizza without it converting the Cheese side to an Extra Cheese side. If they wanted to order a base pizza a control group, they needed to order one with no cheese or toppings maybe light cheese depending on the chain.

[@Wuppys]

Used to work at pizza hut, was nearly the same as this. Cheese is considered a topping for a cheese pizza. You get another cup of cheese on the base pizza

[@YoongSeung]

13:01 I found this interesting because I never found this to be the case at the Little Caesar’s where I live at. Every time we get pizza there, it’s FRESH and the pepperoni’s indeed have the grease. Not as much as other places, but it’s never looked as dry as the one Matpat shows. Guess it just varies from location and I’m a lucky one :D

[@VergilLover69]

*Shout-out to Amy for literally removing all the toppings on the pizza 🍕 for this video. Home girl puts in work for the theories* 👍🏿

[@estherpena-nicholas5283]

And without eating any in the process 😅

[@Jivvi]

​@@estherpena-nicholas5283 We don't know that. The video might've been edited to avoid incriminating her. 😂

[@KenLieck]

Today you'd get in trouble for asking a girl to remove her toppings...

[@VergilLover69]

@@KenLieck *Ayo?* 😗

[@kuxtd8410]

My dad used to work for Domino's and he said your topping theory is 100000% correct

[@ryantipton3697]

It’s exactly what goes on I’ve worked at 3 of these restaurants

[@Tortle4444]

My dad also used to work at a domino's, that's actually where he and my mom met right out of high school, so I've always been partial to domino's pizza, lol

[@KendraLori13107]

Actually, based on my experience at dominos in 2016, we were instructed to use less cheese for pizzas with toppings. We had a measuring cup. One cup for pizza with toppings. 1 and a half for cheese pizza

[@Gustavo.C..]

Worked for papa johns and dominos and its 100000000% true

[@peytonmars806]

When I worked for Domino's (23 years ago), we had one cup for cheese. We dumped that into the hopper of the cheese spreader, slid the sauced pie underneath, pushed the plunger, and it dropped the cheese onto the screen, and it distributed the cheese pretty evenly. Then, we'd hand distribute the toppings. Extra cheese was dropped over the toppings. We didn't short cheese, but we didn't add it unless they ordered extra cheese, either. Cheese was the most expensive ingredient, so that was the one they were they yelled at us most about food costs. This at a place that charged 99 cents for a 20-ounce Coke and $1.99 for a 2-liter back when average cost in a vending machine was 75-cents for the 20-ounce and a 2-liter was 79 cents at the grocery store. We also claimed to have no delivery fee, but a 1-topping carryout was $8.01 with tax, but the same pie delivered was $10.76. Must be that new math...

[@notsoninjaninja1819]

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”

[@AsianGlow]

Most chain pizza kitchens use conveyor belt ovens that are tuned to bake for certain weights. If you add toppings, you have to subtract toppings to have the total weight of the pizza to weigh-in at a specific range. Some kitchens have multiple conveyors, that can be set at different speed/temp, this would allow for the additional weight of extra toppings.

[@glasycrazy4723]

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[@meharkulkarni49]

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[@TheNerdling]

Where I worked there was a scale and bowl, you weighed the cheese for each pizza before putting it on, and number of toppings didn't change how much cheese was added, except for cheese only which got a small extra amount.

[@johnhunter7244]

I work at Marco's pizza and for a large (14 inch) pizza we use 9 oz of cheese for regular cheese pizzas and 8 oz for everything else. We also are pretty generous with our toppings and you can add pepperoni for just a dollar on top of the normal $8.99 price. Honestly it's a pretty good deal and I love the taste. (I am just a regular employee so I get nothing out of this, just being honest)

[@SailorDoc]

As someone who worked at pizza hut and dominos during college years, having more toppings mean longer bake time. I remember making my own pizza ro take home and loaded up the pizza with tons of cheese and toppings. The center of the pizza ended up undercooked, and the dough was raw.

[@monkeychief1904]

I worked at a local chain in my hometown for an extended amount of time and what we did, is out toppings UNDER the cheese. I was never on the pizza station, but I think putting the toppings underneath definitely encouraged them to put a lot more cheese. The place was really generous with toppings too though. Would be curious to see if the toppings being under/on top changes anything about flavor. Best pizza dough ever too! miss that job I would get free food on my breaks and any pizza that wasn't picked up by the end of the night was up for grabs for anyone who wanted it.

[@uBreeze]

I got an advertisement for Pizza Hut saying “No one outpizzas the hut.” the moment they revealed the gram per $ for Pizza Hut Extra Pepperoni.

[@powowbunnyb0081]

Meanwhile I also got an advertisement from pizza hut but it was about their new plant based "sausage" topping.

[@michaelfapgod4598]

Pizza hut is nasty they make bland pizza, how tf can you do that?

[@dexmanceo5736]

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[@blank1199]

@@michaelfapgod4598 pizza hut in my country (indonesia) looks objectively better than in that video lol i think the reason is that here pizza hut here appeals to the middle-upper class

[@angb8182]

who cares about how much money you spend per gram of pizza lmao. little caesars literally is cardboard. i rather put less than more of it in my body

[@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.

[@psychott6]

I love those kinds of Pizzas though

[@adamparker5570]

That makes sense

[@angelvu]

that sounds pretty smart

[@shanemorris3554]

That's how i was taught to make pizza in home economics, i don't understand Putting toppings on top because it moves and falls off

[@ComicDrake]

@Abidjanaise, Not just that. It sucks in general. The only reason I work there is because I didn't want the pizza places that I actually liked being ruined for me. Having worked there, I can confirm that it is disgusting behind closed doors as well.

[@kingstonLinth]

I was a manager at a small pizza restaurant and I can confirm that the way we did things was that we would put LOTS of cheese on the cheese pizza and the more toppings a pizza had the less cheese it would get. This was not only a money saving measure but it also would help in making sure that the pizza cooked all the way through.

[@JustinReto]

I worked at a small pizza join after high school and we weighed our cheese, so depending on the size there was a chart that showed how much it should weigh and that was all the cheese you were supposed to add. Yes, some employees added extra.

[@jchronister97]

I worked at Pizza Hut, they actually put 50% more cheese on a cheese only pizza to stop the sauce from burning. The pizzas with toppings just get the base amount of cheese

[@vincentxavier93]

What sauce??? More like paste that is practically nonexistent.

[@oldskoolhead0]

have you ever seen a real neopolitan pizza? the sauce does not burn, imo too much cheese makes pizza tasteless, it needs the right balance of sauce and cheese, do yourself a favor and try a proper wood fired neopolitan pizza, its in a different league entirely

[@omar10213245]

@@oldskoolhead0 i've had neopolitan ice cream, not pizza, though. heh.

[@thelyric2751]

our restaurant always sprayed an amount of water onto cheese pizzas to keep them from burning. it wouldn't be soggy or anything because the water simply evaporates in the oven, but it was effective at keeping it un-burnt

[@Mad-Lad-Chad]

@@thelyric2751 That's what the pizza chain I worked at did. Spray the cheese and thin crust pizzas to prevent burning.

[@dylanmasters7662]

I work at dominos, you’re actually taught to use less cheese if more toppings are used. You actually use a scale to know how much to put. A medium cheese pizza gets 7.5 ounces and a medium pepperoni pizza gets 5 ounces of cheese. It’s the same with all sizes and toppings. More toppings = less toppings

[@kaitwhy8337]

Haha, came to say essentially the same thing. We used a colored cup for each size pizza. 14" equals blue cup. A plain cheese pizza got 3 cups= base layer, " topping" layer, and top layer. If you ordered pepperoni, you got the base and too layer, but the topping layer was replaced by the pepperoni.

[@emperum2671]

I used to use that nonsense at Papa John's when I worked there, luckily my manager told us to stop wasting time and just eye-ball it lol. Once you get used to just doing it by touch and sight it's saves so much time. And now I work at Domino's, where that isn't a thing at all lol.

[@nampyeon635]

Cheese is a topping. So when you order a cheese pizza, it's a single topping, and you're paying for extra cheese. They weigh it.

[@chloehoedeman8294]

Also worked at Dominos! Can confirm, although I liked to add a little bit extra cheese anyways lol

[@spinorules11]

@@chloehoedeman8294 EXACTLY it felt cruel just barely giving them any cheese to cover up the sauce

[@bran5539]

I used to work at little Caesars about 6 years ago. Idk if it’s the same at all locations or not but we actually did use cheese pizzas as the base of our pepperoni. We made a stack of cheese pizzas and if someone ordered pepperoni we would take one from the cheese stack, add pepperoni, throw it in the oven then cut and box it

[@BangOO6]

Worked for papa johns and pizza. Basically each topping you add the quantity of toppings goes on the pizza gets lowered.

[@sirbuddysworth]

I'm an assistant manager at Dominos, it's in the training for both franchises and corporate stores to put less cheese on pizzas if they have toppings.

[@Baigle1]

if anyone asks about this, play dumb. you don't want to mess with big pizza /joke

[@vikingvod3626]

It makes sense form the perspective of insuring that the pizza fully cooks. Anyone who's gotten a supreme pizza that's doughy in the center knows that more toppings = longer cook times.

[@thevoid3010]

I work at a dominos too. I saw it as: since there’s only cheese have there be more so it’s satisfying

[@raerohan4241]

Dominos and Pizza Hut don't add less cheese if you get toppings, they add extra cheese if there are no toppings

[@meetoo5088]

Aye assistant manager gang

[@robertb8824]

When i worked at one of these chains, years ago, we reduced the topping quantity, as the number of toppings increased. Otherwise they tended to not cook properly.

[@BrotherTheory]

Interesting! You are BRILLIANT, Robert :)

[@daddyosink4413]

I worked at all of them, they all did it.

[@noonewashere6458]

This is what I was going to mention. At some point Domino's delivery app had a note about toppings being limited because it would affect the cooking.

[@donald12998]

Can certified dominoes did it, also it looks cosmetically better as well.

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

That honestly makes a lot of sense, though.

[@shaunbeakley348]

I work at a pizza chain and we have a chart by topping and as you add toppings you decrease the ounces of cheese you add

[@ultrachoccymilk5641]

Thank you matpat for 13 great years!

[@ERROR_OVERFLOW]

Matpat calls Pizza Hut 4th place: Pizza hut: perfect time for an ad

[@puffy-ducky4108]

I had a pizza hut ad before this video.

[@houselightkell]

Imagine getting ads I just skip to the end then click the"replay" button in the middle

[@foxsmith770]

Seriously I got an ad right after that lol

[@fusiongamer9551]

the cheese pizza actually counts as “extra cheese” pizza so if you’d add the toppings to the weight it should average out

[@ma.jbrony1754]

Ditto to this!

[@neproid_3663]

Cheese weighs more than pepperoni so it makes sense that it is heavier.

[@Kukalooka]

This should be obvious As a Pizza fanatic I am disappointed in them

[@sportzfan212]

So does that mean a 'cheese pizza' and an 'extra cheese pizza' is the same thing?

[@grid6382]

They weighed the pizzas with the toppings on them

[@Jjones5202]

0:00 Matt’s regular every day experience talking to a pizza delivery guy

[@anisali5544]

Heyo, I work at a Domino's in Australia (basically Pizza Hut) and what we have to do is actually put in less cheese considering the toppings that are added. For example if we have something like a supreme pizza, we have to add a lot less ingredients for each of total of 9 different toppings but for something like Pepperoni we would put a lot more but then take out the cheese, there is a good reason for this, mainly to cut down the amount of oil and how flowy the pizza is.

[@123mbeard]

As a former Domino’s employee this is my explanation for the weight issue. When you order a pizza, we put a certain amount of cheese on it before adding toppings. Some stores have a cheese spreading device where you dump a measured amount of cheese in and it disburses it evenly over the pizza. After we do that we add toppings. (Important:) A pizza comes with any one topping at no additional cost. But if you want a cheese only, we add extra cheese, because extra cheese counts as your one topping. So since this extra added cheese is heavier than the peps without extra cheese, it weighs more.

[@Halfoz73]

also former Domino's employee, this is true

[@crimpdaddy3559]

That makes total sense. 🙏

[@swilson9794]

As a current pizza hut production worker (cook). One large cup of cheese is added to every 14 inch pizza. if someone orders cheese only, i add an additional half a large cup of cheese to the pizza. The reason im aware of for doing this is the standard 1 large cup of cheese is acceptable for toppings, but if you didnt add extra cheese for no toppings then marina will be exposed and burn in the oven. all the sauce needs to be covered.

[@alexmeza8579]

My small brain can't handle this

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Bumping this thread so Matt is more likely to see it.

[@CaptainRavi0l1]

Hi, current Domino's pizza boi here! Domino's supplies our store with little pizza guides to hang on our walls, telling us weights of ingredients. You 100% get less cheese the more toppings you have. If you ask Domino's Corporate, they'll probably tell you it's because they don't want super heavy pizzas. If you ask my general manager, its to save money because cheese is the biggest cost to our store. Hope this helps 😎

[@veryhot2382]

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[@BlackDogsAndLadybugs]

Thank you pizza boi! ᗡ:

[@PashaGamingYT]

So it is a cost saving measure. Interesting.

[@kyrisgaming]

So if you want to damage dominos bottom line, order a bunch of cheese pizza.

[@almadinjohnchristophers.9014]

Woah

[@Xiuhcoatl73846]

I've worked at Papa John's, while I was there I always made sure to have the cheese evenly spread before adding toppings

[@Jivvi]

As someone who worked at both Pizza Hut and Domino's, it's not at all surprising that a pepperoni pizza weighs less than a cheese pizza. I don't know how it couldn't. If a cheese pizza weighed less than a pepperoni pizza, they'd be ripping you off on cheese. It wouldn't even look like a cheese pizza; it would look like a base that someone forgot to put toppings on. Cheese is a topping. A cheese pizza isn't just a base; it's a base plus about twice as much cheese again as the topping. I don't remember exactly how much it was at Domino's (it's weighed); but at Pizza Hut, it's measured out with a measuring cup. A cheese pizza is two and a half cups of mozzarella, and half a cup of parmesan. Every other pizza on the menu just has one full cup of mozzarella as the base. A pepperoni pizza is one cup of mozzarella and 40 pieces of pepperoni. They're supposed to be counted out and positioned so that there are 5 pieces on each slice and you don't cut through any of the pepperoni when you cut the pizza, but most of the staff probably don't do that. Either way, 40 pieces of pepperoni weighs _a lot less_ than the extra cheese that would be on a cheese pizza, and even less after cooking, because pepperoni loses more fluid during cooking than cheese does. We never had a pizza called "double pepperoni" on the menu, but if someone ordered that, we'd just double the amount of pepperoni and keep everything else the same, so it would definitely weigh more than a standard pepperoni pizza, but still less than a cheese pizza. Bear in mind, this is in Australia, where a large pizza at every pizza chain I've ever been to is 11", and they're cut into 8 slices. I'm sure there would be more toppings on a 14" pizza, and I guess it's probably cut into 12 slices, but we never had a pizza that size anywhere that I worked.

[@MorbidSloth628]

When I made pizzas for a living, if you put the same amount of cheese on an "everything " pizza as a "cheese" pizza, the center wouldn't cook thoroughly. The more toppings the less cheese so it bakes evenly.

[@BrotherTheory]

That's so interesting! You are BRILLIANT, Paul :)

[@kevincoker3668]

When I worked at Pizza Hut we were taught to put sauce then 1 layer cheese, then whatever “topping”. That would be what you call the base. Now when people ordered the cheese pizza. Cheese was your “topping “ therefore 2 layers of cheese. Cheese is heavier than pepperoni. Hence why cheese pizza weighed more than pepperoni

[@IAmAlgolei]

Yeah, that's what I came down here to comment on. I was also told that the larger the number of different toppings the customer ordered, the smaller the amount of each go on a pizza for the same reason -- so the pizza will cook in the allotted time. Some places (Pizza Hut comes to mind) _might_ be able to extend the cooking time, but the faster-food places like Little Caesars had to keep to the speedy cooking schedule and hold the total amount of toppings to a particular standard size. I, uh...used to know a lot of pizza guys.

[@driverjayne]

@@IAmAlgolei these chains all use a conveyor belt oven, and while you can run a pizza through those again, or push it back in before it comes out, most of the time there's a line of pizzas being fed into that oven so you actually can't. The pizzas get cooked for the exact amount of time as always, so they have to be able to be cooked in that amount of time

[@jaciebunner4708]

THIS!!! 100%! Put too much of anything on there and the dough is raw in the center even if it seems perfectly done everywhere else. 😝

[@donutmonk]

As a former dominos employee of over 3 years, I can explain what happens with the pizza and toppings. You're kind of right--lots of workers hide their mistakes in extra cheese, especially if their spread is bad and they add to hide clumps. There is, however, less cheese added to the pizza with toppings. For example, a large cheese pizza at dominos gets 10 ounces of cheese but a large pizza with 2 to 3 toppings gets 8 ounces. The minimum for cheese is hit at 4+, which is to say they reduce the cheese even further at 4 or more toppings but cannot go any lower. The pepperoni weighs less than the cheese (especially after dropping some grease in the box) so the weight changes even more. As for the pizza weighing less with extra pepperoni? I can only assume managers want to save money on cheese (which is one of the most expensive components of pizza to buy) and force employees to go light on the cheese when they can to make up for the newbies' heavy cheesing hand. That's been my experience anyways. Edit: I've seen lots of people mention cook time and yeah, that's definitely part of it. My comment was already long as it is though lol. Too many toppings can affect cook time and the pizzas are meant to go through a conveyer belt oven once. The specialty pizza Xtravaganza is a pizza I proffered to make myself because if a newbie made it they would go too heavy on toppings and would not cook right. It's time and efficiency at fast food pizza places like Domino's.

[@YoungBreezzy66]

Yeooo bless this comment I hope you get all the likes 👍🏾

[@lovell8983]

xD what

[@Wulfex]

This needs more upvotes! Thank you for explaining!

[@myaga]

@@Wulfex this isn't reddit-

[@KlarinetKing15]

As another former Domino's employee, I concur with this as my experience also

[@splergenyuralove]

5:37 a place i worked at. We would just use mozzarella for toppings pizza and, ones without toppings we would add a handful of cheddar. So yes it still had a topping but the topping was cheese. Cheap and probably weighs more than most toppings would add

[@stapleboy7462]

used to work at marcos pizza for quite a while, can confirm that we definitely did up the cheese pizzas with extra cheese as opposed to other pizzas. not only that, but we added an EXTRA (roughly) 25% cheese. we were trained to add extra cheese to them, it was on the posters we referenced for cheese weight and everything

[@HoraceInkling]

Former Domino’s franchise employee here: every single penny must be saved so we would put less cheese on the pizza when there were more toppings. If a customer complained about having an under cheesed pizza, we were told to tell them that we need to put less cheese to make sure everything cooks properly. Which of course was bull.

[@BrotherTheory]

I couldn't agree more with you. You are THE BEST, HoraceInkling :)

[@EksaStelmere]

That sounds like fraud, yo.

[@legendsongbeerd9283]

BORING TOPIC. BORING SPEAKER.

[@Heaven-LeighB]

It’s making sense why I gave up on dominos. I started out ordering 1 or 2 toppings. Moved up to more toppings and it was always garbage pizza.

[@GeorgeMonet]

That is called fraud.

[@happykid27]

Random fact about Little Caesars: Their slogan "Pizza! Pizza!" is not used in Canada because that phrase is trademarked. There is an unrelated pizza chain in Canada called Pizza Pizza that existed before Little Caesar's expansion up north. In Canadian commercials, the mascot usually says other word combinations, like "Hot n Ready!" or "Delivery! Delivery!"

[@RoundBaguette]

Pizza pizza still exists here in my country, and it's pretty cool coz they always sell 2x1 on Mondays thru Thursdays

[@switchyduckk]

pizza pizza sucks

[@KrishAwesome9]

@@switchyduckk i have two words for you bud: creamy garlic

[@Matthews34]

Tbh I live in Canada and didn’t know their slogan was Pizza Pizza, and I do know pizza pizza the franchise

[@ASquared-]

As a Canadian I can confirm also Toronto schools totally ruined Pizza Pizza for me when I was younger, it’s just lukewarm and awful at school.

[@johnbroadway4196]

Back in the 80's, when I worked for Pizza hut, we had to measure out on a Scale each topping. This was very strict. And pepperoni had to cover the pie, to the crust edge, which also at the time had eagle find border, and the cheese had to cover all the toppings. Anymore I local small pizza joints, unless I'm in the taste mood.

[@jrok9996]

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

[@georgebahena2976]

I worked at Domino’s and i was told to put less cheese with more toppings because if there’s too much toppings then the dough won’t cook right

[@jamesjames6601]

So true!

[@littlelibbitt87]

Did you test it?

[@taflhols278]

Interesting. I worked at a Dominos thirty years ago and we put the same amount of cheese on everything (unless customer ordered extra cheese).

[@ChiTownGuerrilla]

Haha sounds like bullshit to me. The dough is separated by the cheese and sauce. I don't see how adding more toppings would effect the crust.

[@SASJinno]

Yep. 1 cup in the feeder for a regular, cup and a half in the feeder for a cheese.

[@airbendersteven2014]

I've personally worked at Little Caeser's, and we were trained to MEASURE out the cheese we put on each and every pizza. It was continuously enforced to NOT just grab a 'handful' and slab it on the pie before throwing it on the oven rack. We had measuring cups, and whether we were cooking cheese, or cheese + pepperoni pies, every one we made had a relatively EQUAL amount of cheese. So my experience matches your data. HOWEVER... there were definitely times NOBODY measured. You have days you're swamped, you have days where the manager on duty didn't care, or let's say your measuring cups all fell on the floor and everyone was way too busy to go back and wash them. A variety of variables happened DAILY, and having worked at multiple fast food locations, I can tell you that this is the same EVERYWHERE. It entirely depends on how busy you are, how many employees you have staffed, the QUALITY of employees you have, and what type of manager you have that shift. PLEASE keep THIS fact in mind when conducting food experiments like this! I guarantee, unless the quantity of something is measured AND ENFORCED to be measured, you will get different results every time you conduct them. :)

[@Rachara]

The restaurants' shortcomings will be duly noted via the acquired statistics.

[@ReneOlivo]

To me Little Caesar's pizzas are made more mechanically and you just confirmed that. Not too hard to guess since they make them so you can grab one as soon as you enter the restaurant (or more like shop). To be absolutely honest, I know the quality is not the same, but I like Little Caesar the best. You can even be creative and add veggies at home. Onions and green peppers go great with it!

[@supersonicx01]

You are absolutely correct. I regularly visit a Little Ceasars every Sunday for their Extra Best. And as of late, (even before the pandemic) the quality has gone down. Bunch of inexperienced teens, managers (deep down inside, they fucking hate them), high turn over and those teens sometimes behaving stupid in the prep area. I've encountered teens that just absolutely hated being there. Like working there on a weekend just killed their plans. Lousy or abismal attitude in the customer service dept, not even a "thank you, have a nice day" reply

[@lottielanger7874]

You better measure! Lol

[@jonathanluzgonzalez7510]

Omgosh I worked there too! Well still lol and yeah your right actually we do keep our pizzas relatively even!! :3

[@finalbossgamer5481]

Little Caesar's has been my favorite pizza chain since i was a kid. I don't know if that's my notalgia talking of if my tastebuds are just so conditioned to it after getting it nearly every day after elementary school for 4 years, but hearing it got 1st place in a few sections made me happy.

[@pickleman5708]

I work at a pizza place and how it works here is our 14 inches get 8 ounces of cheese. No matter the amount of toppings. But if you get just a cheese pizza we just naturally add few more ounces since we few that as the topping. Otherwise we use charts that give us the weights of everything and youre supposed to follow that

[@estroyer00]

Food Theory is just and excuse so that Matthew can live out his dreams of being that one guy from math problems who orders a bunch of stuff in excess

[@angelvu]

LMAO

[@blakedavis2447]

“No one is going to buy 20 pizzas this is unrealistic” Teacher : ahem

[@walnut6684]

My god That is slowly being true

[@izelaserna7225]

:0

[@TainyaGaming]

@@blakedavis2447 I'm afraid to inform you but as a dominoes driver, that is entirely possible and has happened

[@mattbenz99]

In normal times, that delivery guy would just assume you are having a party. But in Covid times, they know you are just a sad person.

[@speakenglish5662]

OHOhhhhh.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIS2d5qNoamVgLc

[@MedEvil1c]

For Canadians, I ordered 4 small 9.5-inch 1-topping pizzas from Pizza Pizza (a 4-20 special of 4 small pizzas for $20) . Here are my deliciousresults: cheese 401 grams sausage 411 gr pepperoni 428 gr and drumroll, the winner mushroom 454 gr (minus the cardboard and plastic spacer)

[@DrewAk49]

I worked at a pizza place and you are absolutely correct on hiding the sauce with toppings and or cheese. Guilty.

[@ashleyc2058]

Worked at dominos in high school. We measured cheese into a “cheeser” device that dispersed cheese over the pizza. Cheese pizza came with extra cheese.

[@ashleyc2058]

Also always use coupons!! Can cut the price by nearly half and most are valid all the time. And choose your own toppings rather than picking a specialty type pizza.

[@isolated1]

I worked at pizza hut for about a year but I never made a single pizza. They used a measuring cup for all their toppings tho but the friers (where I worked) are pretty nasty so I don't recommend ordering wings and all that but they are pretty good

[@BrotherTheory]

That's so interesting! You are BRILLIANT, Ashley :)

[@dodobird6627]

My favorite pizza resturaunt1 wherer is it?????!!!

[@98Yohan]

Ye was gunna say the same, at my dominos cheese pizza came with extra cheese, pepperoni was reg cheese + peperroni, same with byo pizzas, any specialty pizza (deluxe, meatza, etc) did come with extra cheese tho

[@NGL_89]

I'm a former pizza maker at one of these places. The plain cheese pizza actually has double cheese. When you add toppings you only get single cheese so it will be lighter. I presume the extra pepperoni being lighter is employees not putting much cheese on. That's not a standard practise we are told to do.

[@BrotherTheory]

That's so interesting! You are THE BEST, Rosalie :)

[@justis142]

Yes I worked at da hut and we had different color cups to use for cheese based on pizza size. Pepperoni started on outer edge come inside staying tight no space

[@tabris95]

I also work at a pizza place. Our pizza chain does something slightly different though. You get Extra Cheese if you order a Cheese pizza, that one is pretty standard. But we also have different weights for toppings depending on whether it's a single or multi topping pizza. Order a Large Pepperoni? That's 3.5 ounces of pep weighing down your step. Order a Large Pepperoni and Sausage? The weight of Pepperoni drops down to 3 ounces. The cheese for multi topping pizzas however, stays the same as a single topping pizza

[@LysolPionex]

Can confirm.

[@NGL_89]

Yes so with toppings, we didn't do it by weight (this could be a UK normal) we did pepperoni on a large pizza as 4 pieces per slice on a large pizza. Each size pizza had a set number of peices of topping. And the number of different toppings would effect the number of pieces of each topping you got.

[@tharealdad183]

I worked at Domino's and Pizza Hut, both reduce the amount of cheese based on amount of toppings, mainly to save money, but also the dough wont cook properly when there are too many toppings on it.

[@confufu2005]

i have no idea about these places but i work at panera and we do have flatbread pizzas. for plain cheese pizzas we put double the amount of cheese by putting 2 portions (4 oz). for anything with toppings we put only 1 portion (2 oz). dont know why but maybe thats helpful?

[@Preston_]

I've managed various pizza shops since 2014 at the shop I manage now we reduce the cheese and toppings on pizzas as they get more because it takes longer to cook all the way through the more toppings that you add so it gets to a point the crust would be burnt to cook it all counting cheese.

[@bethboppt]

I currently work at a pizza place and I'm backing up this statement. Also, it would become a gooey mess if you kept the cheese amount the same for pizzas with large amounts of toppings (has nothing to do with being more cost effective)

[@Krutonium]

@@bethboppt What if I just like... ask you to anyway

[@doejhonny]

Can't say I've had that problem when I make pizza's at home, except for the time I went a bit overboard with the toppings. I bought a 16 inch triple meatlovers pizza at walmart with "over 1 lb of toppings". I then added my own toppings. 1 can of olives, 1 jar of banana peppers, 2 bell peppers, 1 large onion,, 1 jar of pizza sauce, 1 lb mozzarella cheese, 1 pack mushrooms ( I guess it would be about 2 cups?), 1 stick of pepperoni sliced up (about 8 inches long), and some other oddball ingredient, I think it was dill pickle slices, or maybe it was pizza rolls. It actually cooked just fine except for the onions and peppers were more on the crunchy side. It was death. 1 slice was a full meal, the crust could barley hold it. I know some guys that like hefty, high calorie, over the top food. Even they said I had gone too far.

[@ashielilystar6134]

@@doejhonny holy cow thats a lot of toppings

[@starpilotalliance]

Dominos in 2002 had is measure cheese with this weird cone that evenly distributed over the pizza (never worked). They specifically dictated less cheese with topped pizzas, or more cheese on cheese pizza if you prefer the optimistic point of view.

[@lost0viking]

When I was homeless but working full time, the Little Ceasars Hot-n-Ready's were basically a staple for lunches or dinners. A $5 pep would feed me all day.

[@tbonbrad]

What did that look like?

[@keanuxu5435]

I hope you're doing well now

[@lost0viking]

@@keanuxu5435 So far so good. Got no complaints.

[@Transit_Angst]

I know it's not the same thing, but when I'd be plowing snow on 13 hour night shifts for a month straight, I'd buy a lot of little Caesar's pizza to keep in the cab and eat for every meal.

[@user-gf3hj1me9y]

i hope you're doing alright!

[@wolfboy8117]

for the little ceasers i work at, we the pizza dough for standard 14 inch pizzas are always 18 oz +0.3/-0.1 (thats the rule we follow at least), once the dough is ready to be used as pizza, we have people pre make pep pizzas then store it (pre make it for the day not for future days) once they need it, they pull it out and put whatever extra toppings on it.

[@SubwayJack919]

I know someone who works at Papa Gino's. They'd didn't cheat the cheese with the toppings but some meat ingredients get decreased as the ingredients increase for balancing topping amount.

[@jarvis4044]

“Which pie takes the cake”-Matpat 2020

[@jalensteele1645]

A truly Historic Quote

[@paulpearcy1561]

No one can out pizza the hut

[@FluffyOrionlol]

Lmfao

[@ZervaceWATCH]

Wait.. Is pie a cake?

[@billkling378]

THE CAKE IS A LIE

[@soleildriver3467]

as a pizza place worker once the "pressured to cover more" theory is really accurate lmao

[@ABagofMarbles]

Really, because when I worked we put less and less as we added stuff due to increased water content that screwed up the crust.

[@nexuvareldari7418]

Yes it is, but it's also true that some places teach you to lessen cheese based on toppings. I worked a pizza place that did that.

[@TanyaMedina77]

As a former pizza worker we weighed all the other ingredients differently than we did cheese cheese didn’t have to be put on a scale and weighed up like the pepperoni or veggies

[@catgame9177]

@@ABagofMarbles i’m guessing it depends on what the restaurant prioritize, so it depends between chain and maybe even location

[@DionCardile]

Same dude. I felt this way every time I made a pizza

[@JD-rz5mo]

I worked at a pizza place years past, I remember we were trained to put significantly more cheese onto cheese pizzas than we did other ones. Where I worked, we specifically had a scale to measure how much cheese we put on a pizza, so we knew exactly how much on it. I'd be genuinely shocked if other places didn't do the same.

[@chancecollins6784]

I work for Marco's pizza a slightly smaller food chain but still pretty known around the US. 😅😅😅😅 Matpat you are 100% Right @ 6:35 I feel slightly obligated to give ~a lil~ bit more cheese then just a normal base as the base is pretty slim IMO. (Also sauce! Its one of the heaviest Ingredients to go on a pizza, workers aren't going to put the exact same sauce on every pizza some times it's lighter then it shoulder be, sometimes it's heavy, during rushes especially the quality goes down, and that accounts for a lot of the weight differences.) P.s. be respectful to your delivery drivers and have fun with us, we might just give you a discount on us, my branch is kinda know for this idk if it's chemistry for all Marco's or not but it never hurts.

[@HearMeLearn]

I worked at Domino’s for 3 years, a just cheese pizza has more cheese than a pizza with toppings. It’s more like topping pizzas are the baseline, and cheese pizzas get extra

[@madddawgg2]

This. I cannot believe they thought cheese pizza would not have extra cheese on it.

[@lugiamaster9707]

@@madddawgg2 Made me hate this video tbh

[@theweirdochannel8735]

I thought that's what it was! Thank you Mr. Lebastian!

[@door-kun8527]

Hey I've seen you before.

[@cknorris3644]

your manager was an idiot. You are not supposed to get any extra cheese on a cheese pizza.

[@nilakall5804]

Anyone else noticing more and more food theories on Mat's favourite foods so that he can write them off as business expenses? xD

[@joeandre8100]

Yes I have

[@pinkluver7715]

It's the 1000IQ play in economics and running a business

[@user-fx8ew1wh5p]

@@joeandre8100 ลพพก

[@user-fx8ew1wh5p]

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[@styfen]

Except he had the pizzas sent to Amy this time

[@user-wc8if9ex8x]

It depends on the company. I worked for a local pizza company and the cheese was the same across all pizzas

[@aidanzuehr3556]

I work at dominoes and there’s set amounts of cheese depending on the amount of toppings, and if we use too much cheese we have to use a little less for cost

[@htw.015]

As a broke person ceazars is the only way to go

[@markisthegreat3432]

Try celeste pizza... rich boy :)

[@randomfolk9545]

As someone who is also broke but also a fan of fallout new Vegas “Ave true to Caesar”

[@Urban_Goose]

Solution: buy frozen pizza then add extra topping before putting it in the oven

[@richardt1792]

Dominos has a three topping medium pan pizza that is to die for. It has been on sale for months for only $7.99 for a take out. I get the meat toppings because, hey, the most expensive items. I know its no Ceasers cheap but sometimes you have to splurge. If you buy this, you'll feel like a rich person. I get two meals out of one. Ask for free pepper flakes and Parmesan.

[@eucalideang7444]

@@markisthegreat3432 krrjrjrifi

[@jasonmessere27]

I literally work at Domino's 😂 watching this on break.

[@BrotherTheory]

That's so COOL! You are an AWESOME person, crazyj0909 :)

[@itsjedu8403]

@@BrotherTheory bot?

[@fantasmicemma6134]

I work there tooo

[@karuki3329]

High five me too!

[@ambikamishra9865]

@@karuki3329 10 seconds ago

[@themusicman6615]

Worked for Pizza Hut at one time here! For a large hand tossed cheese pizza, the way you’re supposed to do it and do it right is to put on a full large cup of cheese to base it and then a half large cup to finish off a regular cheese pizza. For any other pizza, you don’t get that half cup of cheese and the other toppings because the one large cup to start is the base point for the cheese. For the extra pepperoni pizza, they’re supposed to fully line up each pepperoni unfolded and stretched out so that way you’re not supposed to see hardly any cheese on that pizza.

[@isurnamejohn18_96]

So I’m a manager at my local papa John’s, the reason for the cheese difference is simple. At Papa Johns (sticking with the large) on a cheese pizza we use 2.5 proprietary “cups” of cheese and on anything with toppings it’s 2 “cups” of cheese. The sauce itself is identically proportioned on all large pizzas based on your base sauce… That 1/5 cup less of cheese shouldn’t be that big of a difference in overall weight. The pepperoni pizza is topped at 21-15-6 (number of pepperoni per ring) and the extra gets a 50% increase on the pepperoni and the cheese is still 2 “cups”

[@sharkysharktimes4091]

My older sister who is a domino's manager has told me "oh yeah i put less cheese on pepperoni pizza but for some toppings you just can't cover up missing cheese"

[@johnmichael8462]

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[@Starman062]

@@johnmichael8462 beware the self promotion bot. It’s cancer

[@franekorlowski5410]

The fact that I’m getting Pizza Hut advertisements during this video 😂

[@BrotherTheory]

That's HILARIOUS! You are THE BEST, Franek :)

[@nitelite2850]

Same

[@vegitoblue1808]

Same

[@miwaafts]

I got Papa Johns

[@david10monthsago2]

Same lol

[@BethanyGriffith-kw2eh]

At Little Caesars, we had a cup for cheese sprinkling so you got the same amount on every pizza (so the extra pepperoni pizza being lighter than regular probably means they've been instructed to simp on the cheese, I don't remember if that was a thing when I worked there)

[@bassmanxan3544]

I used to work at a pizza place, they intentionally had us weigh out less cheese when toppings were added Vs. When it was just a cheese pizza

[@turtle4415]

Some guy: No one can out-pizza the hut! Little Caesar’s: Hold my extremely heavy pizza

[@veryhot2382]

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[@stefanbroers8146]

its actually dominos who out-pizzas the hut!

[@Ins1gn1f1c4nt]

オ二イちゃん ! 大好き！

[@arguechefs2998]

I don't really like Dominoes. The cheese is kinda bland to me. I'm a Mountain Mike's type of guy

[@tfox6986]

Little Cesar’s is the best value I say this ,because they charge like 5 dollars for a literal 12 inch pizza

[@annelouis9199]

new food theory: matpat only made this channel so he could order a bunch of junk food and say it was for research purposes

[@doodle_productions0]

*Plot twist*

[@momatrucker703]

Ordering food can now be a tax write off

[@julioarmadillo]

I think you just solved this mystery

[@Cris_Blu]

That’s not a theory it’s a fact

[@cosmicbrickfilms1593]

But it’s just a theory, A MATPAT THEORY

[@deadman360xx6]

I've worked at pizza hut, along with a local chain. Pizza hut, we absolutely added just enough cheese to cover the sauce. At the local place, a lot of the toppings go on under the cheese, making it so we had to add just a little extra for all pizzas.

[@connorbray8631]

dominos employ here a plan cheese gets about 3oz more cheese than a one topping and that cheese gets lower the more toppings you add. The pepperoni we use is lighter than the cheese, it's actually so annoying because one handful of pizza cheese is 3oz.