Guys Pizza vs. Casamel's (My Favorite)

Guy's Pizza on Ridge Rd. in Parma, Ohio

Casamel's Pizza on Broadview Road

After reading these two conflicting reports from friends on Facebook about Guys Pizza, we broke our Sunday lunch routine to try Guys Pizza to see for ourselves how it was.

Dawn wrote: "we have a Guys in Lakewood and it is very good :)"

Elly wrote: "We tried a giant pizza called The New Yorker. It was undercooked and lacked much flavor. Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. They had a kazillion options, so maybe their other stuff is good, but it all looked expensive to me. I also ordered a small house salad for $3.99. For that much money, I thought the "small" wouldn't be quite so small. Their idea of a "salad" is romaine lettuce, tomato slices, mozzarella cheese and croutons, and the whole thing fit in the same sized container as a quarter pounder. I'm with you Karen Zemek. I won't be spending my money there again. Papa John's thin crust has them beat hands down."

Guys Pizza  is conveniently located between our church and our house so if we liked it better than Casamel's, we would be switching to get that every week.  It is a cute little shop with a big parking lot that you could pull out of at a light.  I noticed they had an old PacMan machine in the dining area--I used to like that game in my younger days.

I ordered a small thin crust grilled chicken pizza. I went with the small in case we didn't like it. It was okay but no "wow, this delicious" came to mind like it does when I eat Casamel's. It was only about only 8" in diameter so we each got three small slices which probably just slightly bigger than one of Casamel's medium slices.

I also ordered cinnamon sticks, since I knew we were getting small slices and would not be full with just the pizza. I didn't count them, but they were good and more than I expected. I liked the ones we got from Dominoes better.  These were 3-4 inches long, much shorter than bread sticks.

Gerard said it was okay, he has no preference. For me though, I definitely prefer our small neighborhood Casamel's and I'm sticking with it as our regular pizza place.

Here are my "pizza standings":

Casamel's

PJs

Papa Johns

Little Ceasar's

Dominoes

Marco's

Donatos, the worst ever!

What's your favorite pizza place?  Do you have a small neighborhood one close to you?  Oh, and now after seeing "A Cat, A Man and a Pizza Box" at Sparkle's Sunday Catinee, Spunky Doodle wants me to save the pizza boxes for her!
                                               
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I Survived Without Pizza!

Last weekend was the first in a very long time that I did not have pizza. We ALWAYS get pizza on Sunday so I can take it to work for lunch on Monday and Tuesday and can’t remember the last weekend when we didn’t get it. I absolutely love pizza because it tastes good, is easy to eat and easy to take for lunch.

Last Saturday, we attended a graduation party and were given two full plates of food to go. Gerard’s loves to cook and is a fantastic party giver. Gerard almost fell over when I suggested we just eat that food instead of getting pizza this week, but readily agreed.

So, can you guess what I had for lunch Monday and Tuesday? I had a roast beef sandwich and it was very good! I knew I could survive without pizza but look forward to having it again this week.

What food do you love so much that you have it the same day every week?

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Americans Love Pizza!

Last year we spent around $550 on pizza. We help support an independent owner called Casamels. We have a line for fast food in our budget and a little over half of our "fast food" is pizza. Generally, out of a medium sized pizza cut into 8 slices, I eat six of them and Gerard eats two. We met at a Pizza Hut for our first date. He scored points with me right off the bat when he suggested that place!

According to last Wednesday's Cleveland PLAIN DEALER article, Piece Of The Pie: Who Dominates The Pizza Business, independent pizza owners combined had 52% of the market share in 2009 based on NPD research group for 2009. $36,286,230,000 was spent on pizza in 2009 in just the U.S. Want to take a guess at which pizza chain had the biggest market share? It was Pizza Hut with 14% followed by Dominoes with 8%.

Do you know what you spent on pizza last year? Who do you buy it from?

Foolish Things--Where Does the Pizza Go?

Scenario 7: Pizza In the Cupboard
We get pizza for lunch on Sundays and then I put a couple slices in my Tupperware container to take for lunch a Monday. (This is not the stupid part.) Twice now, I mistakenly put the Tupperware container with the pizza back in the cupboard instead of in the refrigerator! I get so angry at myself for letting this delicious pizza go to waste. I'm afraid it won't be any good if it sits out all night. Clearly, my mind was on other things. I was anxious to get to the computer to read my email and do some blogging. See, it's all your fault!
What I learned: I'm still trying to figure it out. How do I focus on what I'm doing in the kitchen? Maybe I should ask Gerard to take care of this task too.

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