Pizza How Do You Make it at HOME

Says, Kielma, “whether they close or stay open is really a tragic blow to the economy. Pizza retailers are closing left and right. Why? Who wants to pay 30-40.00 dollars for a pizza? Not me! What can you do?

Continues Kielma, “I own an affordable pizza oven for my back yard. Its gas fired or wood burning oven. Makes one pizza at a time, 16”. How I prepare it all depends on what I or my guests would like. 

For the oven it is $600.00 with a cart/table. I’ve owned my oven for almost 3 years. I have made hundreds of pizzas. 

I make my own dough; it’s one of the key ingredients for terrific pizza. Sauce, I make my own from Roma tomatoes I grow and when not in season I use farm fresh I trust and by.

Ingredients are store bought and not expensive… The oven has paid for itself after the first 100. I clean it and maintain this oven every time I use it. .Do the math! It’s a fun family outing all can get excited about and be part of!

My ingredient costs: Let’s look at the costs of a cheese and peperoni pizza: dough, ingredients, toppings (mozzarella and peperoni) less than $7.00 dollars. Add gas for the oven, maybe 8.00 Do the math! Add bacon, ham, olives, extra cheese, hot peppers, and it truly just costs maybe .75-1.00 extra, maybe?  

Kielma’s Thought: Making pizza at home is fun for the family! It takes some getting used to and practice. My first 12 pizzas were not good. There is a small learning curve that no one showed me, and I’ll show you, so you don’t make the same mistakes I made.

Take a look below at Pizza Chains Failing: Then you decide what's best for you and your family and budget.

Popular pizza chains have battled through financial distress over the last five years, dealing with higher labor and food costs caused by rising inflation, a dramatic increase in interest rates that raised the cost of debt, and long-term effects from the Covid-19 pandemic that are still causing problems for restaurant operators.

Pizza chains unload locations

Marco's Pizza franchise owners Terry Burkholder and Ben Finley in the Tampa Bay area, who owned 19 locations, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2024 to reorganize and sell four underperforming restaurants.

Seattle-based Mod Pizza faced financial distress, closed 27 of its 500 stores, and considered a bankruptcy filing in July 2024 but instead found a buyer as Elite Restaurant Group purchased the chain and continues to operate it.

Bankrupt Pizza Hut franchisee EYM Pizza L.P., which once owned 142 of the chain's franchise locations, sold 77 of its restaurants in Georgia, Illinois, South Carolina, and Wisconsin to six separate bidders in January, including Yum Brands (YUM) franchisor Pizza Hut LLC, at a bankruptcy auction for about $11.78 million.

The franchisee had closed 15 of its locations in Indiana and Ohio in July 2024 before filing for bankruptcy. It will end up closing another 50 locations that it has not been able to sell.