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Article: HomeMade Pizza Co. In Northwest
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 3, 2008
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Here's the dilemma this Chicago chain seeks to solve: Pizza
(particularly thin-crust) doesn't travel well, yet people want to
eat it at home without taking the time to make it from scratch.
That's why one thing you won't find in any of the company's sleek
little storefronts is an oven.
At HomeMade Pizza Co., which opened its first Washington store in
Spring Valley in late October, they do the making and you do the
baking. Order a pie and the team stretches the dough, tops it with
sauce, cheese and other ingredients, sets it on a parchment-covered
cardboard round and seals it in plastic. You take it home, unwrap
it, then slide it and the parchment directly onto the rack of a
preheated oven. ...