Little Caesars Pizza — Restaurant in Costa Mesa

It's fast food, but nothing ever comes out thrown together like you'd get in the lunch and dinner rushes of most of those other guys. Where too often your UNWANTED deconstructed taco or burrito, even the occasional deconstructed cheese quesadilla, is unfortunately the chefs menu. Served with all the same sanctimoniously puffed-up, bumptious, air of the most exaggerated cliche of that holier-than-you, cocksure French chef, with no tolerance or patience to be questioned, simply take it or leave it, you're wrong if you think the taco was not meant to discard its contents proudly across your lap, sprinkling tomattos and tiny slivers of grated cheese AND meat bits, over your lap, center console, finding it's way underneath your seats.

No. This team is really quite awesome. Over the last few years, we have stopped to pick up our preordered dinner, or stepped inside to place an order in person. Generally speaking a very standardized meal, typically a pizza or two, generally a perperoni maybe add pineapple, typically just one, large, accompanied with those crazy original bread sticks, except when feeling really in the mood, we may add yet another rendition of their traditional take on the Italian bread side, adding the cheese filled sticks to the order. Occasionally we may have added a soda or drink, but really can't remember getting any deserts or items off their sweets section. Of course there's the mandatory addition of the sauces, here again through the years we've generally kept to the typical dipping accoutrements, ranch and butter garlic, once in a while one of the trends just to try it.

But this Little Ceasers, no matter how close we've just cut it to the end of their shift, or the closing for the night, I have never been greeted by an unfriendly smile or unkind hello welcome to little Cesar's.

There is ALWAYS laughter that doesn't show signs of creating distractions, or turning the menu into a ballistic messes, of dishovoled pizzas, unsealed sauces, cold or uncooked sides of bread with or without cheeses stuffed within.

The food looks like or even better than the corporate hung images and menus from which we've just ordered. Served almost always quicker than the cashiers bold and ritualistic change and receipt mantra, consisting of sincerest gratitude and his or her predicted time of completion on that order.

Minutes. Always in minutes. Always. It's simply just minutes ALWAYS being predicted. And not once have they been wrong, nor misplaced, they're always correct, a better record than the champ himself, Nostradamus. I have not once, from my childhood to today, this location or any other, ever had an issue with the correctness and quality being less than 💯 percent perfectly spot on.

The staff here, at this location, they are great. I've always seen happiness, never disturbed by crowds, putting their food out to their customers, in always the quality promised but more commonly even better than advertised. It just feels old school, like what I imagine the oldies of the 50s must have been like. Politeness and caring, coming from everywhere and everyone.

I get it, it's too dramatic, it's just fast food. I know. But it's also a group of young people, who show a better side of what humans can be, which is quite rare in today's world.

Thank you for being you and keep it up. It's just nice to feel that type of humanity when doing something as trivial and simple as just ordering and or picking up our pizzas.

It's quite a nice change.

Thank you...

Don't have many if any "hot & ready" ever ready when I go there (1/7 times had H&R cheese that I estimate was made 3+hrs B4 I bought it) Asked if I could get ½ of the bites order 1 style & ½ the other kind, associate said "sure no prob" Then I assume manager entered the prep area I noticed them talking, then associate had to come tell me he couldn't honor my agreed upon special request. I wanted to say something, although after noticing employee attitude reminiscent of a whipped pet after having a enjoyment level of like 4/5 B4 manger entered squashing said spirit & making a big deal out of nothing imo, I thought twice not wanting to make the employees lives any worse than it seemed employers made it already imo. Note: I couldn't hear what was said to employee, it's possible that the associate was a deviant being that drew vigor upon offering little amounts of happiness to humans in the form of agreeing to simple special requests than denying said agreement lengthening their lifeforce or keeping them from revealing their tru demon form. Tho possible I doubt the latter being the tru option. & 1 other customer experience I was witness to; a customer was having difficulty opening the locker for her mobile order she was offered very little assistance and when she finally was able to open the locker, it was empty. An employee told her it was already picked up then. After assuring them to be impossible, as she ordered it standing outside only a few minutes prior & proceeded to walk inside upon being alerted said order was ready & waiting for her. After a lengthy back and forth between the two I overheard that the order had been forgotten and not put into her locker as I was leaving the establishment. PS. I should have led with this but the crazy bites are only edible after the purchase of crazy sauce which is almost half the price point as the crazy bites why they would make a pizza product without any sauce or accompanied by a fluid or beverage of any sort making product swallowable boggles the mind. So crazy bites+sauce=decent &...

Why this place is in business I'll have no idea. There is one person behind the counter and she's usually helping back in the kitchen after she takes your order. It's disgusting to see how they pay a manager to stand on one side of the store who says he's supervising while he sees his employees and people struggling in the kitchen to get orders out. They say they have pizza's ready for you to pick up that's a good one! They don't have things ready for you to just come in and pick up and then when I approached the manager I said how come there's no extra help here he says I'm a manager I don't have to help I supervise and I looked at him I said any let you get away with that? This place should be shut down and if you look them up online there is absolutely no human connectivity whatsoever. These people have no interest in talking to a human and they have no desire to let you talk to human from this Corporation Little Caesars you can stay little I will never go there again and nobody else should either. Go buy a frozen pizza from the supermarket it's a million...