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A question for those east of the Mississippi...

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A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me that there are no "Take and Bake" pizza places east of the Mississippi. I found this hard to believe (the friend has a tendency to make mistaken assumptions), so I'm curious if this is true. If it is, I'd like to know because I may have an opportunity in the next coupl e of years to invest some money and the "Take and Bake" places around here do pretty well, so I was thinking....
 
faithful_servant said:
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me that there are no "Take and Bake" pizza places east of the Mississippi. I found this hard to believe (the friend has a tendency to make mistaken assumptions), so I'm curious if this is true. If it is, I'd like to know because I may have an opportunity in the next coupl e of years to invest some money and the "Take and Bake" places around here do pretty well, so I was thinking....
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So grocery store deli's probably don't count?

I live in Illinois and work in Iowa. We have them in both places.

Of course to throw a real wrench in it, the River actually runs East/West in the Quad Cities, not North/South, so maybe my situation doesn't apply to his claim.
 
faithful_servant said:
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me that there are no "Take and Bake" pizza places east of the Mississippi. I found this hard to believe (the friend has a tendency to make mistaken assumptions), so I'm curious if this is true. If it is, I'd like to know because I may have an opportunity in the next coupl e of years to invest some money and the "Take and Bake" places around here do pretty well, so I was thinking....
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Florida here...
This is the first time I've ever heard of "Take and bake".
Are you talking about frozen pizza like at the grocery store?
 
cherokee said:
Florida here...
This is the first time I've ever heard of "Take and bake".
Are you talking about frozen pizza like at the grocery store?
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No, it is fresh. they do everything but bake it. You get to customize it, like a subway sandwich - and it is substantially cheaper then traditional pizza places because they don't have to account for places to eat, to cook, etc.
 
Hey cool!

Here (Europe) we have "true" pizzerias (italian like, very good), pizza huts (like everywhere I think), small shops (like your Subways) selling parts of pizzas and at the supermarket you may buy frozen or fresh pizzas, but excepted in some pizzerias you cannot customize it.

But you could do something very original in the States (something that exists only in Belgium I think): that's called a "dagobert" (the name of a Carolingian King), that's a long french bread ("baguette") filled with salad, tomatoes, cheese, ham, eggs...(but there are many kinds of dagoberts: with thuna, with italian ham, shrimps, with "american" (raw beef meat mixed with egg, mayonnaise and onions)...that looks like the Subway sandwiches, but in much longer and more diverse.

If you add 2 hamburgers with the salad and the onions (+ sauce) it's called a "dagburger" (dagobert + hamburgers)

Then, if you add good old Belgian fries in it (a lot of fries! And also sauce, often Andalouse or Cocktail) and 2 hamburgers, it's called a "mitraillette" ("machine gun") and it's huge.

http://frites.be/assets/img/content/mitraillette2.jpg

(the only picture I found...does not look very good, so I'll buy one next week ant take a picture for you)
 
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What is 'Take and Bake'? Never heard of it, here in Jersey.
 
you can get that here in ny at some places
 
we have "take and bake" dinner places.... that you can plan a meal and they have all the stuff and then you just go home and bake it...

But specifically for pizza...... never heard of it...
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
What is 'Take and Bake'? Never heard of it, here in Jersey.
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They build the pizza to your specs or from the menu and you take it home and bake it yourself. They're great for football parties, because you can buy 4-5 of them and throw one in the oven when you start getting low. This way your pizza ia always fresh and hot. They're alos really popular with working moms who can call ahead and pick up a good pizza on the way home and then throw it in the oven and voila', instant dinner - hot and fresh with no wainting in a noisy pizza place drinking overpriced watered down pop.
The take and bake places around here are all pretty good, some better than others. They are pretty profitable and make for a really nice mom and pop type operation. With a couple running things, you only need about 3-4 part time employees, since you're only open from about 3PM - 9PM. From the sound of things, my friend may not have been 100% accurate, but it sounds like he may have been on to something.
 
Never heard of one..... Aren't regular pizzas cooked in pizza ovens that get really hot?


None here that I know of
 
A few in grocery stores. They had one in the local super center, but they shut it down for lack of buisness.
 
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