Pizza wouldn't be the same today without the chains. But how have the chains shaped our cities, or even our politics?

Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch and Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan amassed billions of dollars slinging dough. We tell you how they spent it. Plus we take you down memory lane, and revisit the so called "pizza wars" of the 1980s.

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Pizza wouldn't be the same today without the chains. But how have the chains shaped our cities, or even our politics?
Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch and Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan amassed billions of dollars slinging dough. We tell you how they spent it. Plus we take you down memory lane, and revisit the so called "pizza wars" of the 1980s.
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Special projects and more from Michigan Public, the station that brought you the Peabody Award-winning Believed podcast. Listen to our second series, What the Vote?, starting October 8.

Our first special series, Dough Dynasty, is streaming now wherever you get your podcasts. 

Special projects and more from Michigan Public, the station that brought you the Peabody Award-winning Believed podcast. Listen to our second series, What the Vote?, starting October 8.
Our first special series, Dough Dynasty, is streaming now wherever you get your podcasts.

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