Chain pizza stores around here don’t cut it. We got Domino’s, Pizza The Hut, etc., but I don’t call them pizza, either. “Pizza-like substance” is as far as I’ll go.
They’re edible, might even be decent-tasting, but they’re still not pizza.
I had a lunchmate who always wanted to order-in, especially from those places, and I’d go for some on occasion. Meh. Was okay if I hadn’t had it in a long while, but not even twice in the same week for me…
Some places make dough that seems to be more based on biscuit-dough than bread-dough. It’s different at first, sometimes mistaken for good/better, but after a while, yecch.
It’d be interesting if some places would make pizza and freeze them, so you’d thaw/bake them later. Kinda like you can get White Castles in the freezer section of the supermarket and do similarly.
(Never had ’em frozen, only take-out, and while they’re really tasty, oh man do I pay my dues later and into the next day or so.)