Posted on 02/11/2011 11:16:17 AM PST by rahbert
Round Table, the Concord-based pizza chain that boasted the slogan "The Last Honest Pizza," filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday in Oakland federal court, but the filing shouldn't affect Sacramento locations, officials said Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Locations owned by franchisees are not affected by the filing Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Robertson said.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/11/3394009/round-table-pizza-chain-files.html#ixzz1DgBvweSi
Wow, I remember going to the Round Table location in north Concord CA a few years before I left the state. It was a dying concern then which has to be at least a decade ago now.
Geez, you mean people have finally wised up to their outrageous prices?
Try calling in a large supreme pizza for delivery. The guy will then knock on your door and tell you “that’ll be $35.00....not including tip!”
I don’t feel sorry for them!
Agreed...great pizza...too darn expensive. Round Table needs to lower their prices and perhaps find different suppliers.
Maybe this can be a lesson for Obama. If you tax too much, people spend & donate less.
Me, either, actually. Like I said, it’s been 10 years since I entered one with purchase in mind. I just go to the grocery store and get DiGiorgio’s now. More or less the same thing and I only pay $6.
Moochelle bagged one...............
I agree their pizzas are the priciest out there but of the chains in my Ca location they are my favorite pizzas.
Pizza Hut might as well drop their prices to $2 because their pizzas are just plain bad.
I had Mountain Mike this week and their 1/2 price Tuesday deal is very good price but still Round Table has a better overall pizza selection to selection.
And I haven’t found a non chain pizza yet in the area that I like.
Papa Murphy’s take and bake pizzas are pretty good and fairly cheap.
Is pizza too big to fail?
Of course!!!
My foot slipped off the breaks at a traffic light once and I rear-ended an Oldsmobile, it totaled the Round Tables truck and I had to chase down the guy in the olds to tell him I hit him. There was Pizza everywhere!
We have not been in the nearby Round Table since Papa Murphy’s moved across the street from them many years ago. My introduction to Pizza was a long forgotten parlor in Redding Calif in 1955...
I agree—we pretty much get all our pizzas from there. Last month I had a coupon and there was a good special going on. I got one large pepperoni and one large of the chicken DeLite pizzas (Mediteranean?) for under $11. Now if you do the little survey thing you can get a free cookie dough, which my kids love. Last night, I bought a creamy garlic chicken to treat myself for my birthday. Yum!
My parents live in the boonies in Indiana, and they like the fact that they can pick one up while they’re in a nearby town and take it home and cook it whenever they’re ready.
I usually get Freschetta myself.
I stay away from Digiorno ever since I got a pizza with extra machine srew toppings.
I suppose it was a “supreme” but still, I don’t expect toppings from a hardware store.
I would hate getting cheap cad plated hardware on my pizza when I paid for stainless..
California is not a good place to do business.
I worked for a.....ahem, ahemm,... Italian owned business about thirty years ago. They showed me (back then) that a large pizza, with ALLL the acouterments cost them about $5.00, for which they got $20.00. I’d imagine now, it costs $10.00 and they get $35-$40 each. Then rip the delivery guy for 10%, or he’d never see his car again
Best chain pizza place in my opinion. I really like their cheese mix. Up here every place is expensive so I hadn’t noticed that they were much more than anyplace else. But we treat ourselves there occasionally when we get down to Anchorage.
“We have not been in the nearby Round Table since Papa Murphy’s moved across the street from them many years ago. My introduction to Pizza was a long forgotten parlor in Redding Calif in 1955...”
One of our younger relatives, first food job was at Round Table. That was over 2 decades ago. He was impressed with them at that time with re their ingredients.
He left them after a couple of years and became a chef.
Shortly after that RT upped its prices and decreased its services. Our chef relative still loved/loves pizza suggested buying pizzas at local places, who hand craft their pizzas, used wood ovens and what is available locally for toppings. Amazing most of these places were less expensive than RT.
At his suggestion, we got back into making our Pizzas. We have a pizza stone for our in side ovens, and a pizza peel. We make our own crust if we have time or use the crust balls from Trader Joes or Boboli crusts. My wife uses whatever we have for the topping and variety of sauces from hummus to salsa. I prep whatever meat, mushrooms, olives, peppers and other fresh topping if we cook it inside.
For a special treat, I have a big pizza stone for my good size comvo charcoal barbequer/smoker. So I fire up the charcoal on the big side to heat the stone and cook the pizza. Then I fire up the woodchips for flavor on the smoker side which flows over onto the cooking pizza.
When we have family or company over, I’m afraid that I might get mugged when I try to bring in one of the pizzas hot and smoking off the grill. Fortunately, there are never any leftovers, because we might have fights for the leftovers.
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