My Prayers Have Been Answered?
May 12th, 2008 by Woody!
Earlier this year, I had some great news come my way: Little Caesars returned to Cincinnati. And I was ecstatic. Well, sort of. You may remember I griped about Little Caesars abandoning Cincinnati before. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when a Little Caesars popped up on the outskirts of town. But it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.
It looks like the company has reorganized, created a new model, and got busy creating new franchises. Maybe you’ve seen them around your town or while you’re travelling. The new focus seems to be Hot N Ready, having pizzas ready to be picked up at any moment in-store or even at a drive-thru. Sounds like a good niche to separate yourself from the competition and not that far away from what they could do a few years ago.
And yet, it is different. Those who know me are keenly aware that I would often eat Crazy Bread by the bagfulls. Every time I was anywhere close to a Little Caesars I would go out of my way to get some, regardless of how bad the section of town was that I had to go into. But a clean version opened up in a decent section of town and I’ve only gone three times since the beginning of the year.
Apparently, when they converted to the new model, they also changed their recipe. These new places and their Hot N Ready breadsticks don’t quite taste like Crazy Bread. They’re okay… well, better than okay. But not a great as they used to be. I guess the new business model calls for new ingredients or baking directions or something.
So, what does that mean for me, the biggest Crazy Bread fan on Earth? If I’m in the neighborhood, I stop by. (Which I haven’t been too much since it’s around the block from where I used to work and opened the last day I was there.) But I’m not driving across town for them like I would if it were an O.G. (Which is probably a good thing or I’d have gained 10 pounds in a month in that case.) I still swing by a 1.0 version of Little Caesars when I’m driving through Dayton even though it’s in a less-than-desirable part of town.
Am I crazy? Sure am. Crazy for Crazy Bread.
“Just how you like it: disgusting!”
Posted in Cincinnati, My Actual Life |
May 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Dominoes does that hot and ready thing, I think. At least the last Dominoes I went to had a bunch of pizzas ready and in a heating case. I can’t remember the last time I had Little Caesar’s I usually get Donatoes now.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Is the quote from Loin King?
May 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Pizza-pizza or GTFO.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I’m taking this shameless opportunity to let you know I’ve joined the blogging world 3 years after all you guys. I’m at betsyruetz.blogspot.com if you’d like to read my crazy rantings.
And to make things worse, I just cut and pasted this comment from Mona’s comments. It’s worse than spam comment, it’s recycled spam comment.
And now copied from Eric’s comments. I’m spamming everywhere!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
with the hot and ready pie, 2 bags of crazy bread and a couple extra pizza sauce it ends up being like nine dollars. it is great.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:39 am
quote is from i am legend