I used to see them in the UK. Perhaps they’re making the boxes stronger to save needing the plastic, or maybe it’s just smaller pizzas/boxes don’t need them.
I think it’s so if there’s pressure at the center of the box, it won’t press into the pizza, which would cause part of the cheese to stick to the cardboard.
One of the worst features is that it’s a piece of plastic instead of the little ball of dough that they used to put on top of pizzas for the same purpose.
I haven’t had a pizza with a little table in ages. Maybe I’m not getting pizza from the right places, but even the local chain I get pizza from doesn’t use them on their extra larges.
My dream is to eat at that little table that comes on top of the pizza that’s on top of the little table that you’re eating from that comes on top of the first pizza.
I literally just learned last night that the little table is to hold the slice next to yours as you pull a piece, that way you’re not touching the next person’s slice with your grubby ass hands.
Maybe I should’ve said that you CAN use them as a way to avoid touching two slices when pulling your own. You pick it up, place it in the middle of the slice next to yours, and pull so you don’t touch the crust of the next persons slice. Probably a creative use for something that was originally intended to keep boxes from saggjng
It’s meant to be picked up, the feet placed on the next slice, and you pull your slice with your hand. It’s not like it stays in the middle.
I worked in pizza places for 10+ years and we never used them, so maybe their original intention was avoiding pizza box sag, I suppose I wouldn’t know. I guess we can just say using them to not touch the next slice as you pull your own is a more creative adaptive use
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