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| - What with growing up in Michigan, Little Caesars has been in my life as long as I can remember. For most of that time, it was a leading chain, right up there with Pizza Hut and Dominos. I remember when they called their product "Pizza! Pizza!" because you got two rectangular pizzas in a paper sheath. And boy do I remember when Crazy Bread came out. By then I was living in Texas. Several times a week I would call up to order a sack of CB right before I left work... only stopping this habit when the staff started recognizing my voice, and I decided I needed a carbohydrate intervention.
But these days I associate Little Caesars with ghetto-looking orange-y storefronts and a product that's more about putting a $5 pizza in your hands right now than taking any pride in creating something good. I admit that sometimes, driving home from work, I've been lured in by the promise of "hot and ready"... and I still have that love of carbs.... and cheese. Mmmm. It sounds like such a good idea.
And sometimes it is a good idea. Sometimes the pizza and crazy bread are just the ticket for cheap, easy food. Nothing you can be proud of, but weak moments happen to the best of us.
But too often the pizza has a layer of oil sitting on top of it, and the crazy bread is like packing materials sprayed with butter-scented cooking spray.
The location at Rainbow/Tropicana feels grim. Panhandlers sometimes sit near the store. The parking lot is poorly designed. The inside of the store could use a brightening paint job.
But, it's no more grim than any other Little Caesars I've been to in Las Vegas. Maybe Las Vegas just doesn't bring out the best of LC, but I've never been to a location that didn't make me feel like I was sidling into a methadone clinic. (Unless methadone clinics are really nice, with plush armchairs and cheerful posters? I have no idea. My love of bread and cheese is so great that I've never even considered heroin.)
I used to come to this location a half dozen times a year, and the staff (never the same) was always nice. After a long absence, I went back last month got the same friendly service, but food-wise the gamble didn't turn out well. And that's when I thought, "There is no day bad enough or lazy enough to risk facing this crap again."
Little Caesars is fine if you're looking to feed a lot of people with low expectations for a cheap price. I'm just one person, and I'm getting kind of snobby in my old age, and I think I'm too frugal to risk tossing my money (or my cookies) to come back any more.
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