An Extravaganzza Pizza: The Ins and Outs

At Domino's Pizza, an Extravaganzza feast is the pizza with almost everything on it, commonly called a supreme in other pizza joints. Domino's puts Pepperoni, Ham, Sausage, Beef, Green Peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Black Olives, and extra cheese on it as the toppings. Many customers love this pizza, but when making one, it is very important to evenly proportion the toppings, since there are so many on the pizza. For a one topping pizza, well made, you can glance at it and tell it looks the same, but on an Extravaganzza, putting black olives on half the pizza or dropping 5 slices of ham on one slice and two on another is very noticeable, and shows inconsistency. Using scales to weigh the toppings is the easiest way to make sure an Extravaganzza is correctly fixed and will keep the customers ordering over and over. With this many toppings going on a single pizza, it doesn't take much of each topping to make the pizza look great. The pizza pictured here is a medium hand tossed Extravaganzza, and I will point out the flaws in this one, as well as what was done right. Also to note, this pizza has not been cut yet and has not had the garlic oil applied to the crust. The first thing to look at is the crust and the size compared to the box. There should be roughly 1 inch of space left between the box and the crust, and this one is right at 12". Just by glancing at this pizza, there are a few noticeable problems. First of all, the extra cheese looks to be too heavily applied in the middle, since you can't see any toppings in the center, and you can see a lot of beef and sausage on the right side, with very light cheese. Also, you may notice a problem with the black olives. The olives are not proportioned correctly, overly topped at the bottom left portion of the pizza, with hardly any in the middle or upper right. With this pizza, assuming the customer ate every slice, you would get one or two olives on one slice and 10 or so on another, changing the taste of each slice. The last thing that's not correct about this pizza is the mushrooms. It appears this time the mushrooms are correctly spread out, but there's not enough of them, and if the customer happens to enjoy mushrooms, this would not be good. Overall, this pizza would be great to 99% of the customers and is no problem, an easy sale.