I feel like we need to have a serious conversation about pizza.
You can make it a home no with no toppings for about $2.77.
You can use leftovers for toppings. But even if you pay for toppings, trying to fit more than $0.30 worth of any topping on a pizza is pretty hard.
On the left you have carpet Frozen meatballs with leftover bell peppers and some Thyme-leaved Sandwort I cleared out of a raised garden bed to make room for planting some garlic.
On the right we have your traditional bell pepper, pepperoni and Olive
All together these things are probably about $3.20 per person.
Instead of using bread dough for my pizza crust I made actual pizza crust dough. It has oregano and basil mixed in to the dough.
I worked in the restaurant industry for over 20 years. The ingredients aren’t the big cost that keeps driving up the prices. The wages of the C-Suite on the other hand…
Seriously. I am certain that if I went to one of my old stores, I would be able to audit the books and determine the cost of an average pizza. I will bet anything that even after having left the industry more than a decade ago, the cost of ingredients for a large pepperoni pizza still isn’t above $3 to $3.25 per pie. Back when I was managing my stores, it was closer to $2.18 per pie.