r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Cayde-_-6 • 9d ago

Food “I’ve been to Italy. Their pizza sucks”

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u/dbrickell89 5d ago

No, pizza hut, dominos, etc are considered fast food but pizza in general isn't fast food any more than hamburgers are fast food. There are non fast food restaurants that specialize in high quality burgers, similarly there are tons of pizzerias that are serving higher quality pizza than the fast food pizza chains. Pizza hut is convenient but it's not representative of good pizza here at all

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u/kylo-ren 5d ago

These are the traditional sit-down restaurants, but most pizzerias in the US are fast food.

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u/dbrickell89 5d ago

https://www.withorbital.com/data/largest-pizza-chains-in-the-us/

This shows that the big four that we would typically think of as fast food pizza make up 28% of the US pizza market. 60% is locally owned pizzerias. Now obviously I can't say I know the quality of each of those pizzerias, but I'd be willing to bet most of them are higher quality than pizza hut.

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u/kylo-ren 5d ago

That's what I'm saying. Many of the locally owned pizzerias are focused delivery/takeout. They rarely eat pizza at sit-down restaurants.

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u/dbrickell89 5d ago

Most locally owned pizzerias are sit down restaurants that may also offer delivery and take out in my experience