Michigan Public Presents

Latest Episodes:

S1 E4 - The Deep Dish on Detroit Style Oct 24, 2023

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Michigan's pizza chains helped make pizza huge, but they're not the only Michigan bred pizza innovation. We tell the story of the new "it girl" in pizza: Detroit style. Plus you'll meet some of the pizza makers of today breaking the mold.

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S1 E3 - How They Spent Their Dough Oct 17, 2023

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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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S1 E2 - The Secret Sauce of a Pizza Chain Oct 10, 2023

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Thanks to Michigan’s pizza kings, your favorite chain delivers better, hotter, faster pizza.

In the early years of their businesses, Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch and Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan both developed ways to streamline pizza production. We break down the history of three major industry innovations from Michigan that paved the way for all your favorite pizza chains.

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S1 E1 - The Rise of American Pizza Oct 03, 2023

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Michigan doesn't often come to mind when you think of pizza. But it should.

Pizza has plenty of origin stories. But there's one we don't talk a lot about: the story of pizza chains. We tell the tale of how pizza traveled from Naples, Italy to Garden City, Michigan. And how two Southeast Michigan men founded two of the largest pizza businesses, Domino's and Little Caesars, and brought pizza to the masses.

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S1 Presenting: Dough Dynasty Aug 14, 2023

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Michigan Public Presents: Dough Dynasty is a limited-run podcast series that tells the story of how Michigan became the pizza chain headquarters of the world, and how these chains shaped pizza as we know it today.

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