Almost everybody loves pizza, and with good reason. Pizza can be prepared hundreds of ways, with regional styles, crust preferences, and topping choices all factoring in to provide a mind-boggling variety as well as inspiring some strong opinions about what makes a good pie. Every major pizza chain prepares its signature dish a little bit differently from the competition, and they all win loyal customers who keep them and their pizza-making methods in business indefinitely.

But , and true fans of the dish will check out other chains if they feel that they've got something to offer. At the end of the day, some pizza chains are just better than others, because they nail the musts of a quality pie. Here then is our ranking of the most prominent pizza chains, from worst to best.

17. Chuck E. Cheese It's likely that nobody goes to Chuck E.

Cheese specifically for the pizza. It's an entertainment destination; a place for kids to have fun or celebrate their birthdays, what with the arcades and animatronic rock band. But you have to feed all those kids something and that something is pizza — per the loosest definition.

Chuck E. Cheese's pizza is an afterthought because it doesn't need to be important. It's at a generic, third-rate frozen pizza level, which is why it makes sense that .

During COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, when nobody could go to a Chuck E. Cheese for the video games and parties, the company resorted to using the name of one of its animatronics on delivery apps. But t.