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How We Check Prices
Last updated October 2026
This page explains exactly how every price on TheLittleCaesarsMenu.com is gathered, checked, and updated, so you can judge for yourself how much to trust a number before you order. If you have ever compared two menu websites and found three different prices for the same pizza, this page is the reason ours are published as ranges with dates.
The core problem: there is no national price
Little Caesars operates more than 4,300 restaurants in the United States, and around 86% of them are franchise-owned. Franchise owners set their own menu-board prices based on local rent, wages, and ingredient costs. Little Caesars itself does not publish a national price list: on the official website, prices only appear after you choose a specific store and begin an order. That means there is no single correct price for any item, there is only the price at a given store, on a given day, for pickup or for delivery. Our method is built around that reality.
Step 1: We sample real stores in more than one region
For each monthly check, we record the pickup menu of a sample of stores spread across at least three US regions, so a range is never just one city’s prices. For each item we note the lowest price found, the highest price found, and the most common price across the sample. Those three figures are what you see on our item pages, shown as a range (for example, ExtraMostBestest® Pepperoni at $7.99-$10.99 in recent checks). Where an item is only carried by some stores, limited-time items often are, the page says how many of the sampled stores listed it.
Step 2: We separate pickup prices from delivery prices
Delivery platforms such as DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats list Little Caesars menus store by store, but their prices are marked up. In comparisons documented in our research, delivery prices typically ran about 30-39% above in-store pickup prices, and in one case 64% higher for the same pizza at the same store ($10.99 direct versus $17.99 on a delivery app). Our headline prices are always pickup prices. Delivery prices are only ever shown clearly labelled as delivery estimates, never mixed into the main range.
Step 3: We cross-check names, items, and calories against official sources
Item names, descriptions of what is on each pizza, and all calorie and nutrition figures are checked against Little Caesars’ own published menu and nutrition information (the official nutrition page and nutrition PDF). Prices gathered from delivery listings are cross-checked against in-store and official online-ordering menus before they are used, because delivery-listing prices can include platform markup. If sources disagree, the in-store pickup menu wins.
Step 4: We date-stamp everything
Every price on this site carries the month it was last checked, and item pages show a “last checked” date. When a monthly check changes a range, the page is updated and the date moves with it. Deals and promo codes are checked weekly; a code is only described as working if it was verified at checkout in the same week, and expired codes are removed rather than left listed. Limited-time items are added within days of launch and marked as limited-time, then removed or archived when they leave menus.
What our ranges can and cannot promise
- A range tells you what a typical store charges. Your store can still sit outside it, a high-rent city-centre or airport-area store may charge more.
- Prices can change between our check and your visit, especially around limited-time promotions.
- Taxes are never included in our prices, and they vary by state and city.
- The only exact price for your order is the one your own store shows once selected, in the official app or website, or on the board in store.
Found a different price? That is useful data, not an argument. Send us the item, the price, the store’s city, and the date you saw it through the Contact page. Reader reports are verified against the store’s menu and folded into the next update, and clear errors are fixed as soon as they are confirmed.
What we do that most menu sites don’t
- We read every competitor before we publish, then we check the stores ourselves. Other menu sites’ headings, tables, and keyword coverage tell us what readers are being shown; our numbers never come from them. Competitor pages are a reading list, never a source, and nothing on this site is copied or paraphrased from another menu website.
- We publish the sample, not just the number. Most menu sites print one confident “national price” with no source and no date. Every range here states how it was sampled and when it was checked.
- We remove dead deals. Coupon pages elsewhere keep expired codes up for years to collect clicks. Ours are tested weekly and deleted the week they stop working.
- We say “we could not verify it” when we couldn’t. If an item, price, or code cannot be confirmed against a store menu or the official nutrition source, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
Our update schedule, in one place
| CONTENT | CHECK FREQUENCY | WHAT HAPPENS |
|---|---|---|
| Menu prices | Monthly | Full re-check of sampled stores in 3+ regions; ranges and dates updated |
| Deals & promo codes | Weekly | Codes tested at checkout; dead codes removed the same week |
| New / limited-time items | As launched | Added within days of launch, marked LTO, archived when withdrawn |
| Nutrition & allergens | Quarterly | Re-checked against the official nutrition source; allergen changes fixed immediately |