08/20/09 Jet's Pizza Pepperoni and Parmesan Crust cheese pizza
MPizzablog 08/20/09 Jet's Pizza Pepperoni and Parmesan Crust cheese pizza. http://jetspizza.com Jet's Pizza just opened a store in the area and had to try it. Got coupons for it in the mail, and got the Hand Tossed Medium Pizza for $7.99. This pizzeria is known for putting stuff on the crust: butter, poppy seeds, Parmesan, garlic, sesame seeds, cajun, Romano, or Turbo Crust, with butter, garlic and Romano cheese. Well as you can clearly see, there is no Parmesan cheese on it. They forgot to put it on, despite requesting it!
The cheese is pretty light, the sauce is okay, and the crust is soft in the middle, crunchy on the bottom, and tough chewy end crust. I don't think I've ever seen pepperoni that small on a pizza, it's like the size of a quarter. After taking a few bites, immediately I thought "this tastes and feels a lot like Little Caesars" and sure enough, a trip to the website shows its celebrating its 31st year in business, and it's from Sterling Heights, MI and surprise, a Detroit suburb! Little Caesars of course is Detroit Style Pizza, heavy emphasis on bread. Jet's even offers cheese bread very similar to Little Caesar's Cheesy Bread, not to be confused with Crazy Bread, which is soggy breadsticks. I don't know what's in the Detroit ground water, but this particular pizza is a total rip-off of Little Caesars.
Jet's Pizza has over 160 locations in Texas, the Midwest and central eastern U.S.with two more coming in Illinois; Buffalo Grove and Schaumburg. Jet's Pizza apparently has 11 different specialty pizzas, all which none look appealing to me, or to any serious Chicagoland pizza eater. As mentioned, this was $7.99 with a coupon, a small pizza that measured only 12" across, 6" pieces, the slices were 1/2" thick and the cheese was a very paltry 1/16th" thick, and 1" pepperoni that "cups" and would had been $12.50 with tax! The crust was really thick, and in the end, it reminded me a LOT of a Little Caesars Hot 'N Ready pizza, which the last time I checked were only $5 and basically identical to this one. So my advice: you're better off sticking to Little Caesars, not that I would recommend that asshole Detroit Red Wings / asshole Detroit Tigers owning shitty pizza in the first place. I predict once the word spreads Jet's Pizza will be gone from the area in a year or so.