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To: mishedlo who wrote (83108)	8/13/2008 8:34:22 AM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116555

I first ate at Uno's in Chicago around 1983. It was the best pizza I'd ever tasted even though I had to wait 90-minutes to be seated. I also ate at Due's, their brother operation down the street. A couple years later I tried Lou Malnatti's, which I didn't like as well. I was quite happy when they started to franchise Uno's around the country, and I've had it in Dallas, Toronto, the east coast, and Florida, but something happened in the past decade or so. They changed the original recipe to pander to the market. I've made the original Uno's recipe pizza for 15-years, so I know what's in it. The franchise restaurants used less sauce and more cheese in the past decade, and it's ruined the pizza. I don't doubt the LBO is the reason for the collapse of Uno's, but there are other issues that have contributed, like over-expansion and tinkering with the original formula for success. They even changed the name from "Uno's" to "Uno's Chicago Grill", which is whack.