Off Brand Pizza

Unlike other products, off brand pizza is the best.

Forget Papa Johns, Pizza Hut and Domino's, they just don't compare to your local pizza restaurant. Somehow, these pizza chains have turned into fast food with fancy online and text ordering. At these "on brand" restaurants you can order pizza and have it delivered in 30 minutes or less. Domino's even lets you track your pizza live to see how soon you're going to get it. Fancy perks aside, their pizza is no where near the consistent quality that your pizza place serves. If your anything like me, you most likely are in a personal relationship with your pizza place and you don't plan on changing any time soon.

My wife and I will go to great lengths to get our regular pizza from R&S Deli and Pizzeria. First, they aren't open on Sunday so we have to build our pizza week around their schedule. We typically don't order from any place else so if we want pizza on Sunday, we just wait until Monday.

There is major construction outside of their building and for about a year, due to road construction we had to wait what felt like 10 minutes at a light to get across the street to their restaurant.

Our pizza place also refuses to deliver, even though we live within 1 mile of their location. We don't even care. For this pizza we will gladly drive to go pick up.

Now the question - Why? Why do we go to such extreme lengths to get this pizza over and over again? They don't try to make things simple for us, there are never any specials, they don't deliver, their location is difficult to get to and they're not open on Sunday (an ideal pizza day, in my opinion).

We keep going again and again because their pizza is truly amazing. It's consistently good over and over again. They have big NY style slices and it leaves your craving for more. It doesn't taste "processed", it's quality pizza. Speaking of NY pizza, why is it that when everyone visits NYC their primary focus is to eat the pizza? Probably because they grew up eating Pizza Hut and don't know what real good pizza even tastes like.

Off brand local pizza is the only way to go. Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's can offer pizzas for $2.00 cheaper along with great added bonuses like text ordering and pizza tracking, but when you get right down to it, it's really only about what's in the box.