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Jim hosts this week's Pizza Roundtable, with guest Luis C. Medina. Chicago's tavern versus thin crust naming debate, Casey's first pan pizza, a kosher pizza vending machine in New Jersey, and a London pie with tartar sauce.
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🔪 Tavern Style or Thin Crust? Chicago Weighs InEater's piece on tavern-style pizza having a moment sends Jim and Luis into the naming debate. Luis grew up calling it thin crust or party cut, Jim says transplants say tavern, and both agree the style is easy to share. Jim also bristles at St. Louis style being lumped in with it (Eater).
⛽ Casey's Adds a Pan Pizza That Looks Like DetroitCasey's is adding a pan pizza to its permanent menu, and Jim and Luis are impressed by the olive oil, honey, sea salt and double zero flour. They like the square cut, and Jim hopes breakfast pizza gets the pan treatment next.
🤖 Kosher Pizza Vending Machine Opens in Lakewood, NJA Pizza Always vending machine outside Quick Kosher To Go in Lakewood, New Jersey, makes kosher pizza to order behind a touchscreen. Jim is stunned it exists, and Luis would try it but says he would be hesitant (Vending Times).
🏚️ Ohio Pizzeria Pump House Fears for Its FutureThe Pump House Bar and Pizzeria in Lithopolis, Ohio, a Columbus-area neighborhood spot, has posted that it is worried about its future. Jim and Luis say rising costs are pushing independents to a tipping point, and Luis lists Chicago bakeries lost for good (614NOW).
🎮 Domino's Pushes Its Domino Pizza Through MinecraftDomino's is partnering with Minecraft Dungeons 2 to push its single-serve Detroit-style Domino, which has had mixed reviews. Luis calls it desperate times and says the packaging is not for him, and Jim concludes the target is a younger crowd (Marketing Dive).
🇬🇧 Time Out Names Ozzy's Apizza London's Best PizzaTime Out London calls Ozzy's at the Bedford Tavern the best pizza in London, and Jim argues the pie is not really New Haven. Both react to the clam, potato scallop, pecorino and tartar sauce fish and chips pizza, and Luis passes (Time Out London).
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Episode Timestamps:00:00 - Intro / Catch-Up04:22 - Tavern Style or Thin Crust? Chicago Weighs In09:34 - Casey's Adds a Pan Pizza That Looks Like Detroit12:20 - Kosher Pizza Vending Machine Opens in Lakewood, NJ15:11 - Ohio Pizzeria Pump House Fears for Its Future19:23 - Domino's Pushes Its Domino Pizza Through Minecraft22:46 - Time Out Names Ozzy's Apizza London's Best Pizza
Articles in this episode:04:22 The 'Tavern-Style' Pizza Takeover (Eater, Bettina Makalintal)09:34 Casey's Pan Pizza Push Takes Aim at Struggling Fast-Food Rivals (Bloomberg)12:20 Kosher pizza vending machine fires up in Lakewood, New Jersey (Vending Times)15:11 Central Ohio pizza concept 'worried about the future,' appeals to customers for help (614NOW, Mary McCarthy)19:23 Domino's links with Minecraft to push personal pizza via gaming (Marketing Dive, Chris Kelly)22:46 This New Pub Residency Is Officially the Best Pizza in London (Time Out London, Leonie Cooper)
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