I can't even compute the idea of people saying dominos is better than Pizza Hut, much like how some people say 2d is better than 3d, I just don't understand how that's an actual opinion.
There's a frachise in my area called Greek's Pizza that makes edible pizza, but the typical high volume pizza chains are horrible. I became very spoiled when it comes to pizza. I lived down the street from Mother Bear's Pizza in Bloomington, Indiana, which has been rated highly in national competitions. http://www.motherbearspizza.com/menu.html Typical fast food pizza tastes disgusting by comparison.
So basically what you're saying is you can't get a decent pizza in Britain. Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, and Dominos are all shitty excuses for pizza. Saying Dominos makes the best pizza is like saying McDonalds makes the best burgers. Dominos pizza tastes like cardboard covered in ketchup and Kraft singles. There's probably very little difference in taste between Dominos pizza itself and the box it comes in. The other fast food pizza chains aren't much better. Papa Johns sauce tastes like eating pure high fructose corn syrup it's so sweet. The crust on pizza hut is too thick and it usually comes out undercooked. They all give me heartburn and the shits. There's a mom and pop place down the street from me called Sicilian Oven that uses a wood burning oven and fresh ingredients. That's usually where I go for pizza. They make an excellent Margherita pizza with real buffalo mozzarella and fresh tomatoes and basil. There's also Anthony's Coal Fired, but I find they char the pizza a bit too much for my liking in the wood burning oven. Anthony's is still a trillion times better than any chain pizza. In fact, I've never really seen the point of chain pizza as a frozen $3 Red Baron offers the same shitty level of quality for a fraction of the price. What pizza should look like:
You can get a decent pizza but the big chains dominate so there isn't much room for the independents in the delivery market. The best pizza is usually in restaurants, you can order and collect but they very rarely deliver.
We have a independant small ali's takeaway down in my town that does a lush pizza. The first stop aftet a night out for me.
Pizza express do pizzas like the above, but again extremely pricey and not that filling.. We have no concept of pizzeria like the US. Here most pizza places sell kebabs and other crap so they aren't focused on making pizzas. London was marginally better with a few places doing some good stuff but as Grim has stated its not cheap or viable. http://www.pizzapilgrims.co.uk/ were the best street vendors of their kind. In the north however there is NOTHING I have been to over 50 "Italian" restaurants in a 30 mile radius and have yet to find anywhere nice.
What? You have to tip the drivers over there? The most they'll get out of me over here is 20p, when I can't be bothered to wait for change
I've heard that cheap curry dishes are the way to go for cheap food in the UK. I doubt I'd bother with pizza there, especially from what I've read here.
You tend to get more decent Italian food at restaurants rather than takeaways. We had a small local delivery place that was excellent - made their own dough, simple pizzas, very tasty. But now all we've got is dominos and the like. Dominos is better than the others but I wouldn't go out of my way to go for them. Indian food - well, we're spoiled for choice where I am. Lovely stuff if done right.
Sounds smart. My dad used to travel to Britain every few weeks on business and said he ate pretty much nothing but Indian food, as everything else was shit. He said he couldn't even find anywhere that could do a decent steak, and the "Italian" food was all bad.
We have a fantastic local Italian but the price matches the quality. Also a top notch French restaurant and a brilliant fish restaurant. Living in south London it is easy for me to get into London itself which has some brilliant restaurants. Our Xmas party at work this year is at what is supposed to be a fantastic French restaurant on the edge of surrey which I am looking forward to. Thank God it isn't me who has to pay for 80 odd people to get 4 courses and booze there. Currently watching Heston on CH4. Really want to try his restaurants but the fat duck is expensive and quite a way from me. His place in London is supposed to be good.
Because in America, you get paid ALOT less on tip based jobs. For example, it's common for a waiter/waitress to be paid like $2.25 an hour.
Ed miliband has promised to raise the minimum wage from £6.19/hour ($9.90) to at least £7.45/hour ($11.92) which he calls a living wage if labour win the next election. It will probably be around £6.30-£6.40 by then I reckon as it goes up every year and the election is still over 2 years away.
In the US, people who get tips generally make well below minimum wage. They're counting on your tips to survive. Minimum wage is only around $7/hr in most US states, and servers make below that. People who don't tip here are scumbags. If I were in Europe, I probably wouldn't leave as big of a tip, as your minimum wages are pretty damn good and generally livable. Here I leave 20% unless the service is horrible.