The McDonald’s McPizza: A Huge Failure
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I used to do Tech Support for McDonalds, and the Orlando location literally just did whatever they felt like back when I did. Calls from them were just immediately escalated since their system was a bizarre alien mishmash of technological eras and didn't act anything like a normal McDonald's.
The rumour was that they refused to shut down long enough to replace core system elements and McDonald's either didn't have the authority or couldn't afford to force them to.
😂 If it's that critical, why don't they have a back-up restaurant?
The idea of a rogue mcdonalds franchisee or manager just running his shit off the rails and being a crazy villain calling hits on people etc sounds like a good story idea
@@jpaugh64 Because they only had one set of elite-level workers.
FL+ McDs + Fast Food clintel
my nearest McDonalds had a system failure about 2 months ago actually but not in Orlando
There's a real podcast that's really called "Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's?". The host has been calling random McDonald's asking for their pizza for *272 episodes*
Great podcast, I can't stand those nefarious actors either
Sir? SIR? It is NOT a podcast. It is an Independent Journalism Program, or IJP, that was once a part of the Panoply Media Network. Get your FACTS STRAIGHT!
@@biffenheimer I had to Google this, turns out he pretended that it was part of that media network so he could get it on iTunes :D
@@biffenheimer Podcast just means a programming in audio-focused format that's made available to listen on-demand on the internet. It doesn't matter what source it is in order for it to be called podcast.
Sound's boring, only nerd's would pretend to enjoy it
My mom was a manager for a McDonald's in the 90's. When they stopped serving McPizza there, she brought home a bucket of pepperoni. It was amazing. I'm pretty sure I ate my weight in pepperoni in a week.
pablo escobar would be jealous of your stacks.
This explains Why america Is The fattest nation
We used to steal cases of hamburger patties and bags of mcnuggets like no one's business. You'd just throw them in the trash cart and pile a couple of bags of trash on top and wheel it outside to the dumpster area and set it aside. Once your shift ended you'd go out and put it in your trunk. Granted, you'd have to explain to your parents why this shit was in your freezer. I think i used the excuse of "Christmas bonus." That didn't fly.
@@elbob17 should’ve said it was expired
The pizzas were awesome…locally they were only available for a few years, not 15 years. They were also only individual sized…so no window issues.
You may be quite honestly the ONLY person I have ever seen say they like the mcpizza…. That shiz lasted like 2 weeks in my area before they got rid of it
That was largely my experience as well.. I remember the little 4 slice individual pizzas.. I remember them being short lived.. and I remember missing them when they were gone.
It was around for at least 5 years in Winnipeg (canada) and we did have the family sized ones too
IMHO it tasted a lot like Pizza Hut, but with a weird aftertaste. Something they must have added to help it brown fast?
I loved them. I'm not sure if it was because of the taste, or just because the idea that I was eating pizza from McDonalds was so novel.
Only the real ones know how bad the audio was the first time
Damn it you beat me too it!!!! Lol
I saved that video
Edit: It is private now
2nd Edit: Thanks for a lot of likes, I did not expect this
@@RealLTBB its private now
Missed by minutes rip
it was unlisted for quite a while
Wow! And I was believing that the McPizza downfall was that the delivery boy kept forgetting the customers' drinks.
Yeah, and them taking 15+ minutes to make a pizza is baffling to think about, Mr Krabs could make one in a few seconds out of krabby patties bare handed, no new ingredients or equipment needed.
The Krusty Krab Pizza is the pizza for you and me
Diet Dr. Kelp
My question is why they didn't just do personal pans...they're quicker to bake and would fit through windows easier
Are they though? I worked in a Pizza Hut for 3.5 years. A personal pan took the exact same amount of time to cook as an XL New Yorker (biggest pizza they had at the time). The only difference was the time to actually make the pizza, and a negligible amount on the cutting/boxing side.
The ovens in most national chain pizza places are conveyor belts (including Costco), so most everything takes exactly the same amount of time.
They had a personal size (not sure about the pan part). I used to get it all the time.
They did, the window were VERY narrow to stop people from attacking. Yes that happens.
@@MTGeomancer BTW, why people say that Pizza Hut's pizzas are mediocre? Did you see a problem either with a recipe or technology in Pizza Hut that would explain this? What they are doing wrong?
@@StrangerHappened Pizza Hut has some decent pizza but it's greasy as hell and usually leaves me with a stomachache.
My mom loved McDonald’s pizza and she was craving it while she was pregnant with me. It got discontinued right as she got pregnant with me. I pity the McDonald’s worker who had to explain that to a pregnant lady
Had you been born with acne? ;-D
Just kidding, in my country folklore says that, if the crave of a pregnant woman for a food isn't satisfied, the toddler will be born with marks of it.
@@guilhermesartorato93 I dont think I was lol but that is pretty interesting!
HAAH
missed opportunity. you could have been a baby stitched from the nutrients of mcpizza.
@@guilhermesartorato93 That's really convenient for the women in your culture, haha, I can see all the husbands running around trying to get all the food :D I'll make sure not to pass this information to my girlfriend :D
In Canada, I only remember seeing the personal Pizzas. They even sold them at my highschool. They were around for a while, and I don't remember them ever being slow. I think they just kept a certain number ready like they do with their pies.
At the various McDonalds my family went to in Alberta, it was always a special order that we had to pull forward to. Though yeah, it was only personal pizzas so the cook time was closer to the 5 minute targets
@Prof. Weed Not all McDonald's had the family sized one.
McPizza's were even in Canada too? I had no idea this was even a thing in a first place. Never knew McDonalds even having pizzas.
Canada had McPizza until 1999.
@@plawson8577 I cannot walk into *YOUR* Canadian McDonalds to order food without knowing how to speak French first!!!! Da hell's wrong witchu people up there? Imma gonna slappa da snot outta yo face wit da wet spahetti. Mama Mia!!!
Closest thing to a real life version of the krusty krab pizza we'll ever see!
That episode is what came to my mind when hearing McPizza
KRUSTY KRAB PIZZA IS THE PIZZA FOR *YOU AND ME EEEEEHEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE*
@@DogsRNice you mean
KRUSTY KRaAaEAh KrAaEeheA PEETZAAA uiT’s ThUh peetZAH fOr you And- MEEEeeHEeeEE EEE HEEEEEEE
THE KRUSTY KRAB PIZZA IS THE PIZZA FOR YOU AND MEYEYEYEYEYYEEYEEYEYYEYEYEEEEEEEEEEE!
I'm surprised you brought up Kona coffee for Hawaii. I think it's more interesting that you can order a Portuguese sausage, spam, eggs and rice breakfast platter from Hawaii McDonalds...
But he called it "Conna"
I suspect that one is for the Japanese tourists, but I might be wrong!
You can order saimin from Hawaii McDonald's too. Source: I live here
Meanwhile here in Singapore we used to have burgers made with glutinous rice patties in-lieu of burger buns, called 饭/飯 Fàn-tastic. Sweet curry sauce is available for dipping your nuggets into also
Had a mcpizza in august 2017 shortly before they killed it for good. It was actually awesome and the restaurant had a separate pizza counter. Definitely worked well for small town rural sad to see it go honestly
4:45 Ohio or West Virginia? XD
@@krissp8712 Ohio. Though it’s pomeroy Ohio right on the river across from West Virginia
When I lived in Orlando in the '90s, they had a McDonalds that served pizza, and I ate there and ordered the pizza any time I was in the area during lunch. It makes me sad that they didn't catch on, but happy they still exist there if I ever get back to Orlando.
It's the giant one on I Drive with the arcade
The I drive Mc Ds has 2 levels 🍔. Florida area McDs had items like 🍝🌭🍕. I recall 🥗 & the "salad shaker" a large salad you quickly mixed then ate. That item seemed to last 5-6 yr then was ✂️.
mcdonald’s pizza as a concept is nightmare fuel
For some reason I imagine them using ketchup instead of regular pizza sauce to save money
It was actually good!
Only someone with a crappy imagination would think that, the pizzas were great
Initial training at our store for when it was being introduced (around 1991 I think) had pizza from 3-4 other major pizza chains (eg Pizza Hut) so we knew what we were competing with. Even after the first couple years it was amazing and, as far as I was concerned, it beat out every other chain. You know how chains sell dipping sauce in part so people will eat the crust? McD's would butter the outer circumference and then sprinkle parmesan cheese on it.
You have to remember, companies will do one of two things when introducing a new product: (a) Just put it out there, or (b) do a ton of research on what people want and how the company should implement it. Companies like McD's, BK, Taco Bell, and so forth are too big and have too much at stake to do the former, so they do a ton of research first. They simplified it down to two sizes, only 3-4 different varieties (think how their burgers already come by default with a certain list of toppings), and what needed to be done to make the process as fast and easy for their staff as possible and still be flexible if someone makes a change (eg a Hawaiian pizza with pepperoni added). It made their pizza the best chain pizza I've ever had.
@@daboz8753 Correct. They were Horrible. Like DiGiorno of Today.
As a kid being able to get nuggets, fries, and pizza at the same place was just about the best thing ever.
never understood pizza with fries. maybe I'm just used to wings being from buffalo.
@@schwig44 I don't understand it too. In my country when people order pizza they're gonna eat pizza ONLY.
@@guilhermesartorato93 Yeah, that's usually how it is here. Wings on the side are an occasional thing, but still the standard side for pizza.
The wait time for a pizza was part of the experience of eating at at Pizza Hutt back in the 70’s. Sitting in a booth with a siblings or friends drinking as much soda as possible while you waited 30 minutes for the pizza was a blast. Just the endless soda part was a huge treat back then and not found anywhere else.
And you also met some really hot women there back in the day, it was crazy, this is before toxic masculinity became a thing so I went wild
@@gtt8428 and the mustache ruled the world
with working audio this time! great work Samuel!
Fun fact: Little Caesars is a transportation company in the same way that McDonalds is a real estate company.
Might be something that is half as interesting to look at -- how little Caesars keeps their pizzas so cheap
Great idea 💡!
Seems interesting, would actually like to learn more about this
It's just a theory
a FOOD theory
great idea, that detail of the gamestop stock saga of them being real estate kings was funny to me
i work at one and we dont actually have any transportation but a drive thru instead
The massive McDonald's in Orlando has a pizza and pasta bar with a real wood fired over. They also haave a full desert/sundae bar. And it's actually pretty decent with a variety of different ingredients. They don't call it McPizza though. It's just pizza (or pasta).
What are you women like ? Worth looking at ? I prefer places with attractive women
That’s because it’s more of a sit down restaurant, not a normal McDonald’s, which gives out food faster than you can read at least fifty pages of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
@@thecourtjester1931 yes but are the women hot ?
@@gtt8428
Yes
The pizza is pretty good and my wife loved the pasta
I think MOD Pizza is the spiritual successor of the concept, it literally stands for _Made On Demand_ after all and they do legitimately succeed in getting custom pizzas to you in ~8-10 minutes. Plus their "charge for the size, toppings can be whatever you want" concept is fairly unique in the pizza market...
Yeah, this looks awesome (Just looked it up)! It looks very similar to a local chain in Indiana that we have called Azzip. They work almost exactly the same but have a conveyor belt instead of a stone. Basically come in and choose toppings like a Subway or a Chipotle and they make it right in front of you. Then by the time you get done paying, your pizza is almost ready. Azzip however charges by the number of meat toppings. Unlimited veggies though!
I remember these! They were actually quite good! Took a little longer to get than a burger, but worth the wait. Ahh the good old days!
Ah yes, back when the dollar menu was actually a dollar. I miss those days.
@@timwildauer5063 This!!!
@@timwildauer5063 Maybe it's still a dollar? A New Zealander dollar? ;-D
@@timwildauer5063 And a dollar was worth more so there’s no that much of a difference
They were surprisingly nice indeed!
I remember that and remember the wait.
When they stopped serving i completely forgot about it.
Pizza Hut Restaurants UK - at the time - was pretty good too, but then slowly started going down hill quality wise.
I actually went to McDonald’s yesterday and ordered a Quarter Pounder and they actually gave me a second Berger patty on it by accident (I assume it was accidental) so it was essentially a double quarter pounder minus the extra cheese. I wasn’t complaining at all especially since I had used the 6,000 points on the McDonald’s app to get it for free.
Look at the zipper on your clothes - there’s a good chance it says “YKK” a Japanese zipper company that holds 95% of the Japanese zipper market and 45% of the world zipper market. It’d be an interesting video to see how a Japanese company came to dominate the zipper world.
I believe he literally has already done this video some years ago. YKK is the initials of the man who started that Japanese company.
Mine says "YCC".
America may have won the battle that is WWII, but Japan won the war that is the global zipper supply market.
@@spencergraham-thille9896 for the most part it was the uk and soviet union that helped the allies win WWII, not america
@BlockSheep this is incorrect- the US was critical in winning WWII. Let's not forget the atomic bomb dude
My failing memory recalls the Canadian McPizzas were individual sized. I can oddly enough recall the fridge-sized pizza oven because it was so close to the counter in my local McDs. Guess my family never bought the family-sized pies!
Yeah they were personal pizzas in Canada fsr
Yes, your mind is failing. There were full-size pizzas in Canada. May have neen small ones too.
Thebsad thing is tjat McD's pizza was p ettu good. At least in Canada.
Only real one knows this was reuploaded due to audio issues
4:30 I ate McPizza once, and your “even though the quality of the pizza was surprisingly high” is EXTREMELY generous, even when qualified with “for a beef-peddling clown.” It was cardboard. It was burnt cardboard with some cheese sprinkled near it.
Are you sure you weren't eating the container?
@@backwashjoe7864 Yes, because anyone who ate the container would have been surprised by all the flavor!
Bro, that was the container. You were supposed to eat the pizza inside.
I haven't had a McPizza in over 24 years and I still get cravings for it. That's how I stumbled on this video in this first place. You ate the box.
It was actually good for what it was.
I worked at McDonald's in the 90s. Neither of the stores I worked at did McPizza, but a nearby McDonald's in a truck stop did. I was told the McPizza did fairly well there, because long-haul truckers took longer stops to rest and eat.
I'm pretty sure we never had McPizza in Australia but at the moment Domino's is pushing a "burger pizza" really hard. It's really just a pizza with pickles and mustard 🤷♀️
I know right, it looks weird, haven't tried 'em as I'm not a fan of dominoes but it confuses me to shite
I tried it because I liked their hotdog pizza but I couldn’t stand the sour taste of the pickles combined with the normal pizza sauce.
The fact they didn't figure out all the problems ahead of time, thus avoiding it to begin with just amazes me.
I used to work in a mcdonalds and my first thought was "how did they fit pizzas into the kitchen? surely that wouldn't work" as it turns out, I was right
I quit not long before all day breakfast started. I remember saying "no way will the grill or the fryer be able to handle both breakfast and lunch menu, and they'll have to drop most of the baked goods if they want to serve griddles after 11." Turns out I was right too.
Canada had McPizza for a few years too. It started around 1990 and lasted a few years but it was completely different than the McPizza the USA had. First, our crusts came premade and frozen. We started out with 12” and 6” pizzas. We would thaw the crusts, then add the sauce, cheese and toppings, throw it in our pizza ovens. The 12” family size took less than 5 minutes to cook, and the 6” took about 3 and a half minutes. The ovens were set at somewhere between 400 and 500 degrees. They sold quite well. Then after a couple years, to reduce food cost, they started shipping the pizzas to the restaurants all premade, with sauce, cheese and toppings all frozen like a frozen pizza you’d get in the grocery store. Sales then plummeted because obviously they were not as good. The varieties of pizza the Canadian McD’s had were Cheese, Pepperoni, Deluxe (pepperoni, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, bacon, sausage), veggie (onions, green peppers, black olives, mushrooms, diced tomato), and Bacon Double Cheeseburger (bacon, mozza & cheddar cheese, onions, ground beef). For the first couple years, the 12” would be served on an elevated pizza tray with parmesan and red chili pepper in shakers to the table if it was being eaten in the restaurant. The 6” pizzas also had its own combo meal. A 6” personal pizza, medium soda and medium fries. The combo deal didn’t sell well because who wants pizza & french fries?
What I remember more about McPizza in the early '90s was how our local McDonald's had umbrellas (with the McPizza logo?) over some of the tables inside. Then it suddenly went away and went back to normal. Does anyone else remember this?
I remember running into a regional sales manager for Dominos one day while he was visiting one of his stores. I worked right next door and we were both outside on a smoke break. He told me that the very first Little Caesar's opened up across the street from another store in his region. He told his bosses that they needed to undercut them heavily to keep them from getting a foothold, but they didn't listen. Ever since then, Dominos has had to charge a lot less for their pizzas than they otherwise would have in order to stay competitive.
TL;DR Dominos had a chance to kill Little Caesar's and missed it.
Little Caesar's is really surprisingly good. Only have several in Singapore, but imo, it is better than Pizza Hut. Their Crazy Bread is especially pretty good.
Definitely. I always make sure I get a crazy bread when I order. It's also way cheaper than the other main pizza chains. Little Caesars is my go-to for whenever I feel like pizza.
Idk if its me but the Pizza huts in Mexico tastes like cardboard
@@molotera8789 I think pizza hut tastes like that everywhere 😂
Domino's is much better for pizza chain!
The McDonald's where I used to live in Pomeroy Ohio was the last one in the US still selling pizzas I think they stopped 2019. The issue was they just couldn't get the Pizza doughs themselves. The pizzas were pretty good the restaurant was on the river so they had their own boat dock and it was super nice to order a pizza walk down to your boat and not have to go anywhere you not have to pay a delivery fee. 8 out of 10
The McPizza was fantastic, and in my opinion, worth the wait. The added bonus that it brought with it were the queueing ovens that heated them. They were able to be used for other things. Way back then, I had a friend that worked in McDs and he figured out that slightly over cooking the burgers made them taste better. So whenever I'd go to a McDs, I'd ask for "two hamburgers, but queue them as code 302", which means they would be heated to the level of two Big Macs instead of two burgers. Completely changes the taste of the burger, much better. Too bad they did away with this.
I work for Domino's UK, and if everyone is on the ball, you can have a freshly prepared pizza (from chilled dough), fully sauced, topped and cooked in about 7-8 minutes. (Depending on complexity of pizza)
Yeah I'm sure it's way better as well. Everything at McDonald's tastes bad and it's not that cheap either. Chinese food is cheaper, at least where I live.
I'd rather just call a restaurant and then my food will be ready when I get there. It's about the same price and tastes way better!
But taste like 💩
I read about this not too long ago and I immediately thought about why they thought about doing something this complicated when they could have offered something more in their wheelhouse that might still attract pizza clientele. Like...what about fried calzones instead? Imagine if they took their fried apple pies and instead of making them sweet, stuffed them with marinara, cheese, and pepperoni?
Here in Italy, McDonald's serves very small calzones in groups of three, like they were McNuggets
Yeah come to think of it that is a good idea. Especially because it would probably be pre-made in a factory
What you’ve just described is a hot pocket. I don’t think McDonald’s would want to start serving hot pockets at their restaurants
@@tcnugget Hot Pockets literally never turn out crispy and are also nearly always of uneven temperature. My suggestion would basically always be perfect because of how much better deep frying is than microwaving for producing crispy and hot products.
I will now forever know Ronald McDonald as "That beef peddling clown."
Thanks Half As Interesting.
We still have them in parts of the UK.
They're nicer than the fish fillets...
Meanwhile Little Caesar's brand awareness outside of the US has gone up 300% in half an hour.
The audio sounds a lot better
Little Caesars used to have pizza ready to go but only before Corona now they are way behind every time you go to order a pizza and they magically forget about your online orders a lot
Amazing how they managed to mess this up. I went to a music festival a few years ago, which had a stand making pizzas with a single wood fired pizza oven. From order to eating, it took 4 minutes. But, they big difference? They were making thin/crispy base Italian style pizzas, not the loaves of bread with 4kg of toppings on them, American style ones.
wow, first time seeing this video with great audio quality! good job, sam!
There is/was a Little Caesar's near the university I attended (on campus if you count the private lots surrounded by university buildings of a highly urban campus). Hot N Ready pizza is just about the most amazing thing to a college student, especially when it's only $5. Walk in, grab pizza, walk to your dorm/hangout spot, enjoy hot pizza. Brilliant.
I think like 1 out of 2 people who walk into a Little Caesar's are not sober.
@@User31129 so college students
I had one once. I remember thinking at the time that, being in the northeast, there were a lot better mom n pop pizza shoppes within a mile in every direction.
I had it once at a McDonald's on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It took forever and I couldn't stop thinking of all the pizza places that were 100 times better.
@@shoredude2 obviously true, even in penn ;-) and yet we still have dominoes n little Cesars in business up here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
also [wtf is with that crime against humanity - "tomato pie"?]
My first job at 16 was at McDonald's and we had these pizzas. I remember them being solid but again, I was 16. They took forever to make. I remember dropping one cheese side down on the floor and we were slammed so that bad boy got scooped up with a spatula and put in the box and sent out.
McDonald's Italy has some really good stuff we don't have in the UK. "Perugian Kisses" McFlurries, Nutella Sandwiches, Chicken Wings, Buckets of chicken, cheese and bacon topped chips.
God I miss living in Italy.
You can get McFlurries in the UK
@@daveheys2699 they mean the "baci perugina" flavor specifically
That doesn't really sound worth going to a "restaurant" for
And in France, you can find stuff in McDonald's that aren't present in either the UK or Italy, it's Poutine.
@@Menon9767 Oh hey, a snob.
I feel like there's some inaccuracies in this video. My recollection is McDonalds had a specific dough and customized ovens that could bake the whole thing in around 6-7 mins. This is also consistent with my memory of getting a pizza in around that time. As well, they did offer a personal size, but I do seem to recall they had a family size too. I only got the personal size. It was one of my favorite things to get from McDonalds back in the day.
"Little Caesar's: it's hot and it's ready"
"Is it good?"
"I said it's HOT and it's READY."
im reminded of the flatbread pizzas Subway used to serve. I worked there when they first rolled it out and its ALWAYS been a pain in the ass to make. They werent *bad per se cuz its just crispy flat bread pizza, but they always slow the line down. I especially always get asked to make multiples for 1 customer.
how do you feel about subway having actual pizzas now
It was called McDonald's Pizza in Canada, never officially called McPizza. It was actually pretty decent pizza. I don't remember there being a long wait for the individual pizzas. This was at a time when everything was made in anticipation of the demand for the items. A smart manager would have had many pizzas ready for the busy hours, just like they did with every other menu item.
Always in the list to go to Orlando’s McDonald’s to get the mighty McPizza. If I recall correctly. It reminded me of Pizza Hut.
If it's still the same as the original, then yes it was almost exactly like Pizza Hut. Or at least like Pizza Hut used to be back then. They're not like that anymore. And have you seen these damn kids on my lawn?
He said iconically American but wrote ironically American, probably one of the more subtle jokes on this channel
The Poutine, meanwhile, isn't American, instead, it's French, and yet, it's available in McDonald's, however, it's only available in France.
That talk about caesar's reminds me of a pizza shop here, Dodo pizza, one of the best pizzas I've had atleast here, they make pizzas in like 10 minutes, and after they're done, they're put in these mini ovens just to keep warm, even after 30 minutes they feel practically fresh
Huh. They made a pizza. That's half interesting.
I worked at Burger King 40 years ago and sometimes the late shift used to make pizzas on the Whopper buns if there was enough in the closing shift waste-count. Somehow the waste always seemed to provide wink wink
Nice avatar, mindless follower
Do you remember the BK Doubles and when BK switched to Pepsi?
@@plawson8577 No.
As someone from Orlando who has been to that exact McDonald’s I do not think I’ve seen mcpizza on the menu nor have I seen anyone with one. I’m kinda astonished that they don’t advertise it more
I guess this is why they don't advertise it: they don't want you to order it.
@@jpaugh64 It's like the Fillet-O-Fish at my local McD's. All the other locations in the region show the FoF prominently on the menu with a picture and everything. The one closest to me hates it when anyone orders the FoF so they removed the picture, shrank the text way down, and tucked it in between the Double Quarter Pounder and the McChicken.
Used to love McPizza (personal size) and McHotdogs and Skydome in Toronto in the early 90s.
I stopped at the McDonalds in Orlando last month to get a McPizza it was pretty good until I got sick after.
Still a typo at 1:00
I work at McDonald’s, and you are REALLY overselling our efficiency
4:52 this is why I always watch the whole video before commenting.
I remember McPizza in Lisle, Illinois in the late '80s. It was good.
Doing IT for a pretty big franchise owner (a large portion of the Midwest) One day I asked one of the store managers what grimace was supposed to be and I think the most accurate answer I got after asking like three store managers is that he is a mixture of all three of the shake flavors.
I don’t know what the hell he’s supposed to be, but I don’t like it. He keeps breaking into my local furniture store and trying to mate with the beanbag chairs.
I last had Little Caesar's ca. 1991. I ordered a large pan pizza. It looked terrific, but the dough in the center 6 inches was still raw. They just kinda ceased to exist in my mind, and it takes a video like this to remind me they still exist.
I never knew they existed at all, to be honest, because it seems they are only active in the US. Kind of odd that Sam didn't go for Domino's or Pizza Hut, which are the two US pizza chains that have some global presence; Pizza Hut is in enough countries outside the US to be a recognisable name, and Domino's are like McDonald's, Burger King and KFC: They're everywhere (except Russia and North Korea, I suppose).
I remember working at McD's when pizza was being introduced on the menu in the area around Toronto Canada (early 1990s - like 1991ish). If memory serves me right, the actual cooking time of a family-sized (12-inch) pizza back then was around five minutes and it was amazing. Before we started carrying it, the store had a meeting involving some of the store management and certain key senior employees (trainers, for example - I was fortunate to be one of the invited staff), and they'd ordered pizza from 3-4 other major chains so we knew what we were competing against. The crusts, like the burger patties and buns, were premade and sent to us frozen, and I think we had to take some amount out regularly to thaw them first. And I remember the pizza being amazing. Some time later I moved and was going to university and where I moved to had McDonald's with its own delivery service - this is before Uber Eats existed - and the people I lived with regularly ordered from them.. and pizza was almost always on the order because it was so good.
It's a shame that it was considered a failure because for me and a LOT of people I knew, it was an amazing addition to their menu.
They were surprisingly good. They didn't have them at the local McDonalds but oddly the one on the Garden State Parkway, specifically the one at the Watchung South Service Area- oddly the only McDonald's southbound. There was one northbound about 12 miles south and that one did not have McPizza.
I feel like if they did mini pizzas, like Dominos is doing, they could possibly make it work. Offer only 4 or 5 variations and you've got a speedy McPizza menu you could order from a drive-thru.
They also did the small personal pan pizzas with 4 slices..
I loved the McPizza. I was so sad when they got rid of it
McDonald's used to own (not sure if they still do) a pizza chain called donato's. They were one of the only chains offering decent Sicilian and their quality was like if you compared 5 guys and Wendy's. More of a fast casual experience that was a bit pricier.
Bro, check out what they had to do to stores when they made subs. They had to renovate the whole kitchens plus most of them moved the exhaust and fire systems for their grills. It was insanely expensive and they last like a year...
Hey wait didn't we watch this yesterday? Some might call this, a McFailure
@@AliTheBotNotAPro haha an MtFailure, that's clever!
McDonalds still does sell McSpaghetti in the phillipines though
Some of this information surprised me because I only remember the size being small, personal, 4 slice size. I also remember them being served with all the other food (i.e., they didn't take much longer)
It reminds me of the wings they did for one Superbowl season. I was working as a GM for McDonald's at the time.
Weirdly enough, they were actually amazing wings. But it was the cook time. The cook time was upwards of ten minutes, and you pretty much had to dedicate a whole fryer just for them basically 24/7. Something basically impossible for smaller stores with a small number of fryers.
Then, of course, you'd have people wanting them prepared specifically to their taste, and it was just too much of a hassle.
They actually did really well, and McDonald's was thinking of keeping them, but it was too much to then also keep stores running smoothly.
I live in Orlando and have been to the 18,000 McDonald’s (on I-Drive) many times. I see the big pizza ovens- and I never get it. Why would I get pizza at a place that I want to get a heart attack from? 😂
Believe me, you'll still get your heart attack.
As a Mcdonald’s back-ender, pizza would be real cool. For the customers. It would be hell for the crew lol
I had a manager who was a grunt in the pizza days, he said it was indeed hell to deal with that.
@@johnladuke6475 Haha
I used to live in Katy, TX where there was a McDonald's that sold pizza. As a kid, I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
When I tell you I screamed when I realized you used a photo of the Little Caesars in my town in rural PA, it was quite the scream!
"In the end, McPizza turned out to be a huge mistake, almost as bad as publishing a terrible audio quality version of a fun fact video about McPizza and then unlisting instead of privating it, letting people with the link watch your failure for several hours after release. Sounds terrible, doesn't it?"
Sure, I guess I'll watch this again :)
I've been told that McDonald's in Maine seasonally carries McLobster Rolls, although I have never had the opportunity to try it.
We had it across Canada for a few years and it was pretty good. The seasoned crust was a nice and original touch.
I always thought it tasted like a McCain frozen pizza.
I remember McPizza. My cousin and I used to get them in Kentucky. The video is right they were actually good but was also right in that it wasn't any faster to get one than it was at any regular pizza joint. Also for anyone who doesn't know - the "hot and ready" model of Little Caesar's is a recent invention. They were not doing that back in the 1990s.
Watching again to please the algorithm overlord
The final, pun really needed to be a "no one out pizza's the Hut" joke.
> iconically american
> pizza
Italy: "Am I a joke to you?"
cool six minute ad
Here on canada it was frozen pizza. Like, literally mass produced pre made pizza just like grocery store pizza. I know cuz i had to make it and burned the hell outta my hand pulling it out of the oven (righthanded tool - lefthanded person) Also. The baking oven used for apples pies and muffin was the same oven for the pizza. There was no extra shit installed, was pre existing. Circa 1998. Our franchise owner was so cheap, he wouldn't even buy soap for us to clean cooking equipment or dining area/bathrooms and don't get me started on the playroom . You know what its like trying to clean their shit with no soap?
In Canada Ontario they only sold personal pizza all the way into the late 90s and the rare places that sold bigger sizes actually just sold it to you by delivering outside by park in waiting
0:33 Missed opportunity to say pizza box.
I wish McDonalds would bring over the fried chicken, white rice and spaghetti that I had recently at their locations in the Philippines. Yummy!
Yes, the McPizza has been covered _ad infinitum_ by this point. But there have also been many other failures, and this may not be an exhaustive list, but they include: McSpaghetti, the McHotdog, the McHula Burger, the McD.L.T., and the McLean.
For what it was, I thought McPizza was actually pretty good...I'm glad Canada hung onto this a bit longer, but I know of the few American locations that still do (Pomeroy, OH and somewhere an hour away in WV).
One of the more interesting local adaptations that McDonald's has made for other markets is stand-alone McCafes. When I was in Beijing, my wife and I stopped by one for milk tea and cake. It was actually pretty good.
I grew up in Detroit. We never had McPizza in Detroit (to my knowledge) but I remember seeing it in Canada the first time I went over to Windsor. This was pre-internet, so when I told people about it they almost didn't believe me. I never got around to trying it, but I always thought it was cool to see it over there.
I loved those things when I was young. Those and the Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas we'd get through Book-It at school.
"A beef peddling clown"
I will need some time to calm down after hearing that.
mcdonalds used to serve lots of things they dont anymore. the english pub burger was amazing. and they used to make fresh smoothies too, washing the blender between ever smoothie took forever.
Canada still has smoothies, but I'm not sure I'd call machine-dispensed bags of fruit puree and yogurt "fresh". The blender station has a hot water jet, just pop the jug over it and blast clean in seconds.