Fox 2 News Headlines: Pizza Prices Increase

Have you realized how much a pizza costs nowadays?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leaving for Chase Junior today. Can't wait to see everybody at
the airport. Hope you'll be watching. I know we're gonna
be out I think live on Fox to at nine
thirty and ten thirty this morning. So we're going to
bail out of here a little bit early. But yeah,
look for that. And of course we're broadcasting live from
Orlando all this week. A couple of things here in
Fox News Headlines today, less than a day after finding
firing Jonathan Smith MSU has hired former Northwestern coach Pat

(00:23):
Fitzgerald on a five year deal. The fifty year old
college Football Hall of Famer will be introduced today in
East Lanson.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Why that other guy get fired?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Not happy under losses?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, I'm probably not happy with how things were going
over there. Metter. Detroit is waking up to a light
coating of snow today that could make the morning commute
a little slick.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, okay, light sure, if that's a word that we're using,
allow extra time on the roads or abhorrent conditions. I
don't think that you weren't actually depending on at this time.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
They probably calmed down a little bit. But when I
drove in a major league in Oakland, University's hot water
system has fortunate nearly twenty buildings, including three dorms, to
close again just after repairs were supposedly finished last week.
Students in the affected dorms have had to move out temporarily,
and the school says it is working through possible refunds.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
So where do they stay in? Like a hotel?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Sometimes?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I remember that's what they mean by refunds. They'll refund
where you had to go stay?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, okay, or I could see refunding the dorm. I
mean if you're not in the dorm for most of
the semester.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh, like the days that you're not back. Yeah, I guess.
Pizza prices have climbed so much. The average large cheese
pizza is now seventeen dollars, and customers are downsizing to
smaller pies. This is nationwide, not necessarily here. Big national
change are feeling it, while local shops say they're hanging
on but fighting rising ingredients and delivery platform costs. Here's

(01:49):
the deal. The pizza business used to be the best
business when I grew up in New Jersey because there
was a pizza place in every strip mall. Well, like
because it was you could make the most money.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's also it's like a dollar eighty to make, is
that right? Yeah, Warren was a pizza guy for nine years.
Like I don't remember that. He used to tell me
the exact number of what it would cause what it
cost to make a pizza versus your profit yet. But
let's not get crazy and start ordering smaller pizzas that's
not gonna help anybody.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I remember I used to be able to order a
small deep dish pizza from Jets for like seven dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now if you were to get that, it's like twelve
was small. So it's funny that you say that. So
we got Jets last night, okay? And I normally I
just do it through the app so I can just
go pick it up. But when I want to do
weird stuff, which this isn't that weird, but like, I
want to talk to somebody because I want to, I
feel like if I get folksy, they won't be like
irritated about what I just asked him to do, so

(02:46):
they'll be cool about it.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I was like, you guys made us a pizza last time.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That was so great, we want to do it again.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
And he brought it up and he goes, are you
talking about the half extra cheese pepperoni, half bacon feta?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
And I was like, yeah, you guys rocked at that.
We want that one.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
And he's like, you got it, Missus Williams.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I'm so happy that it went that way, because I
just want to tell you something. If I was on
the other end of that phone call into it and
you started rambling like that, he'd hang up. I would
either hang up or I would make it wrong because
I was so irritated.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh my god, what a terrible customer service.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, did you not get a job at Chet? That's
why I did it. I was like, I'm gonna make
him like me so much. He's gonna be like, I'm
totally gonna nail this.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
He's gonna be like, I'm busy, lady, and hurry up.
What's your order?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Remember that time you.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Made us about that. The typical cost to make a
large pizza is two dollars and fifty cents to three
dollars and fifty pepperoni's about four to fifty. A loaded
specialty pizza costs six fifty, which is why pizzas are
sometimes now in the twelve to fifteen dollars range. Yeah, price, yeah,

(03:54):
uh what else? One last story here. America spent a
record eleven point eight billion on Black Friday. This is
the story that we're doing yesterday too, up nine percent
from last year. Cyber Monday was expected to hit fourteen billion.
It's interesting how you often or we often talk about
how with inflation and food prices in the economy and
right now, it's tough for people. Yet they break records

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on everything.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
We break chicken wing records on Super Bowl, we break
Firecraker records on fourth and job like some there, we
have a lot of money and I just don't know
who is, Like we're participating and we are spending billions
of dollars on every holiday.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah. I always think too, like, oh, the theme parks
are gonna have a tough time, right, people can't afford it.
And then we were there and I'm like, wow, every
one of these families are paying twelve hundred dollars a
night for this room. That is easily a holiday in
room anywhere else. Right, beautiful holiday and swerve state our
whole life