Ordering
What the Pizza Tracker Is Actually Telling You
The tracker is a real status display for part of the process and an estimate for the rest. Knowing which stage is which explains most of its inaccuracy.
6 min read
Guides to spending less on pizza
18 long-form pieces on the decisions that actually change what you pay and what turns up at the door. Written and edited by Amna Sadam and Maha Iqbal.
Last updated: October 2026
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Ordering
Ordering Pizza for a Group: How Much to Get
The two mistakes are ordering too little and ordering the wrong shape of deal. Both are avoidable with about five minutes of planning.
6 min read
Ordering
How Much to Tip a Pizza Delivery Driver
Percentage rules break down on small orders. Here is a framework that holds up across order sizes, weather and distance.
6 min read
Ordering
Late-Night Pizza: What's Open After 10pm
Closing time and last-order time are different things, and the gap between them catches people out constantly.
6 min read
Nutrition
Pizza Calories: Which Choices Actually Change the Number
Some pizza decisions move the calorie count substantially and some barely register. Here is which is which, ranked by impact.
6 min read
Not sure where to start?
Pick the situation closest to yours. Each path is three guides, in the order worth reading them.
I want to pay less tonight
Start with the eleven tactics, then check whether carryout is worth the drive for your order.
I am feeding a group
Work out how much to order, whether to size up or add pizzas, and which deal fits a crowd.
I have a dietary need
Understand what changes the calorie count, and what gluten-free and vegetarian options really mean.
How these guides are written
Each guide answers one question that changes what you pay or what arrives — not a list of tips that could apply to any restaurant. Where a guide makes a claim about money, the arithmetic is on the page: the sizes, the prices used and the sum, so you can redo it with your own store’s numbers.
Prices quoted inside the guides are estimates, the same ones used across the menu pages, and are labelled that way. When something in a guide turns out to be wrong, we correct the page and change its date rather than leaving the old version up. If you spot a mistake, the contact page reaches both editors.
Comparisons
Two options side by side, with the arithmetic shown: carryout against delivery once the fee and tip are counted, a large against a medium by area rather than diameter, and what each crust really changes beyond the price. 3 guides.
Comparisons
Large vs Medium Pizza: The Maths Nobody Does at Checkout
A large pizza is not a slightly bigger medium. It is roughly sixty percent more pizza, and it almost never costs sixty percent more.
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Comparisons
Carryout vs Delivery: The Real Cost Difference, Worked Out
Everyone knows carryout is cheaper. Almost nobody knows by how much, or at what driving distance the saving stops being worth it. We did the arithmetic.
6 min read
Comparisons
Hand Tossed vs Thin Crust vs Pan: Which to Order?
Crust is the only free decision on a pizza — and it changes the texture, calories, topping capacity and whether leftovers are worth keeping.
6 min read
Menu Explained
Which parts of the menu are worth paying for and which are padding — starting with toppings, where the cheapest-looking choice is often the worst value. 1 guide.
Menu Explained
Which Pizza Toppings Are Worth Paying For?
Every topping costs the same at checkout and they are emphatically not worth the same. A ranking based on what you actually get.
6 min read
Nutrition
Calories, gluten and vegetarian or vegan options, written to help you compare choices rather than as medical advice. Allergy sufferers should always confirm with the store directly. 3 guides.
Nutrition
Pizza Calories: Which Choices Actually Change the Number
Some pizza decisions move the calorie count substantially and some barely register. Here is which is which, ranked by impact.
6 min read
Nutrition
Vegetarian and Vegan Pizza: What Is Available
Vegetarian is straightforward at most pizza chains. Vegan is not, and the reason is the cheese — plus a couple of ingredients people rarely think to check.
6 min read
Nutrition
Gluten-Free Pizza at Chains: What to Know First
A gluten-free crust is not the same as a gluten-free kitchen. What that distinction means depends entirely on why you are avoiding gluten.
6 min read
Ordering
The practical side of getting food to the door: ordering online without paying for extras by accident, what the delivery fee is and is not, how much to tip, planning for a group, late-night cut-offs and what the tracker is telling you. 6 guides.
Ordering
What the Pizza Tracker Is Actually Telling You
The tracker is a real status display for part of the process and an estimate for the rest. Knowing which stage is which explains most of its inaccuracy.
6 min read
Ordering
Ordering Pizza for a Group: How Much to Get
The two mistakes are ordering too little and ordering the wrong shape of deal. Both are avoidable with about five minutes of planning.
6 min read
Ordering
How Much to Tip a Pizza Delivery Driver
Percentage rules break down on small orders. Here is a framework that holds up across order sizes, weather and distance.
6 min read
Ordering
Late-Night Pizza: What's Open After 10pm
Closing time and last-order time are different things, and the gap between them catches people out constantly.
6 min read
Ordering
How to Order Pizza Online Without Overpaying
The order in which you click things changes what you pay. Here is the sequence that consistently produces the lowest total.
5 min read
Ordering
The Delivery Fee Is Not a Tip: Where It Goes
A former driver explains what the delivery fee covers, what drivers are actually paid, and why the two are constantly confused at checkout.
6 min read
Rewards
Loyalty schemes that count orders rather than dollars reward a different habit from the one most people have. This explains what the points are actually worth and how to collect them without spending more. 1 guide.
Rewards
Pizza Rewards Programmes: What the Points Are Worth
Most pizza loyalty schemes count orders, not dollars. That one design choice changes the optimal way to use them completely.
6 min read
Saving Money
The order you click things in changes the total more than any single coupon. These guides cover the deal structures that come back every month, why a code fails, and the tactics that stack — carryout first, the deal tile before the menu, the dearest item in the flat-price slot. 4 guides.
Saving Money
The Mix and Match Deal, Explained Properly
The two-items-for-a-flat-price offer is the most flexible deal in chain pizza and the easiest to use badly. Here is how to extract the most from it.
6 min read
Saving Money
The Best Pizza Deals Right Now (and How to Tell)
Deals are designed to look bigger than they are. Here is how to read them properly, plus the offer types that consistently deliver real value.
5 min read
Saving Money
Pizza Coupon Codes Explained: Why Yours Did Not Work
Codes fail for four predictable reasons. Understanding how chain promotion systems are built explains all of them, and prevents most.
7 min read
Saving Money
How to Save Money on Pizza Delivery: 11 Tactics
Most advice about saving money on pizza is either obvious or wrong. Here are the eleven things that genuinely move the total, ranked by how much they save.
6 min read