Papa Murphy's is NOT a legitimate pizza place

Papa Murphy's pizza is not a legitimate pizza place. Fact. It all boils down to this. There are really four basic ingredients that are mandatory at any establishment that desires to call itself a pizza place: a building, workers, pizza, and a pizza oven. Every pizza place I can think of has all these things, all but one. . . Papa Murphy's Take N Bake Pizza.

My inherent problem with Papa Murphy's is that it doesn't have a pizza oven, one of those mandatory ingredients. I know a lot of you might think that pizza ovens aren't that important, but let's think about all the pizzas that taste the best. There's a reason that pizza from Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Pizza King, La Rosa's, Ray's Famous Pizza all taste better than Red Baron pizza from the supermarket. They all have pizza ovens that help them PROPERLY cook the pizza. And that's one of the reasons I pay more than $4.00 for those pizzas.

Here's the other thing that doesn't make sense about Papa Murphy's. Why would I even want to bake my own pizza at home if I just went out to pick it up from the pizza place? I have instantly doubled my waiting time for the pizza. Not only do I have to drive out to get it (Papa Murphy's doesn't deliver), but I have to wait 20 or so minutes at home while it is baking in the oven. Nonsense.

I'm not sure that I actually even consider this a restaurant. I'm the one doing most of the work here. I'm to one doing the baking. Isn't the point of eating out to avoid the hassle of cooking things yourself? I've been asked would I consider it a steak house if it was the type of place where I cooked my own meat. Well that all depends. Do I get to cook the steak at the steak house or do they make me take it home and cook it there. If they make me take it home and cook it I won't call them a steak house, I'll call them a Butcher.

And yet, as my friend Jon Hill has pointed out, America continues to support this "pizza place" as it continues to expand. Not that I ever really invest too much stock in the opinions of the American public.