The best local shop in your area that you can find. For me it's Sal's Pizza from Boston which is interesting considering they have multiple locations in the area and are selling frozen through Wal-Mart around here (although I've never tried that version.)
Oh bullshit, that Italian lady was being too kind to Dominos by saying that Italians prefer dining out rather than delivery. NO The reason Domino's failed in Italy is because the Domino's pizza tastes like CRAP-ASS! All that MSG and cheap sauce? Fuck them! You try to take some cheap imitation Neapolitan-style pizza into Italy and expect them to like it? What the hell is wrong with them?!? Domino's need to completely and absolutely terminate their "international sales team", because Dominos works only because the USA has no palette for good pizza, because most of the USA is not from New York City. Focus on the stupid USA pizza mass-market fools!
big chains mainly blow but you should be able to find a local joint that is good unless you live in the boonies.
In high school I used to work at Round Table and they had the best pizza for a chain. They also had a very good salad bar (Fremont, CA 1985-6). There used to be a chain called Straw Hat where I grew up and it was so-so but they had a Lunch Buffet which was pretty cool because you could try all kinds of different pizzas. When I went college there a very good small chain called Blondies (Berkeley & SF mainly). It was probably the greasiest cheese pizza I've ever had.
Chain pizza joints just suck in general. I recently visited the town I grew up in and bought a pizza from a local pizza shop (T.K.'S pizza in Fairport, N.Y.) BEST PIZZA EVER. No way any of the chains can even come close. It's a good thing TK's is 800 miles away since I refuse to settle for a chain pizza- keeps the weight off.........
If you have ever tasted Domino's, Pizza Hut or Little John's, then you have tasted CRAP-ASS, because in the Oxford English dictionary, those are the three definitions that come up under the entry CRAP-ASS!
Those are the go-to pizzas for those in college and living cheap regardless of the taste because you follow it down with a swallow of the cheap beer from a keg. After a while, you can not taste how bad they are. wrbtrader