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Little Caesars is estimated to be the fourth-largest pizza restaurant chain in the United States.• The company claims to be the largest carry-out pizza chain in the world.• It was founded by Mike Ilitch and Marian Ilitch in 1959 in Garden City, Michigan (on the very same corner that the first KMart was built), as "Little Caesars Pizza Treat." The company is famous for its advertising catchphrase, "Pizza! Pizza!" which was introduced in 1979. By 1987 it was available across the Northern United States; in 2006 it also operates in parts of Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, South Korea, Honduras, Slovakia , the Dominican Republic, Czech Republic , Mexico, Turkey, the Philippines, Ecuador, Egypt, Aruba, Iceland, Guatemala and Japan, Curacao, Mexico, Kuwait, Saudia Arabia, El Salvador, Qatar, Venezuela, UAP, Cancun, Lebanon, Bahrain Little Caesars is most famous for offering two pizzas for the price of one (hence the "Pizza! Pizza!" slogan). Little Caesars is also notable for their $5.00 "Hot-N-Ready" pizza promotion, where large pepperoni and cheese pizzas are ready for pickup with no need to call ahead. Some franchise locations choose to use $5.55 or $5.99 pricing instead. Ilitch Holdings, Inc. provides professional and technical services to all companies owned by Michael and/or Marian Ilitch. This includes the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit's MotorCity Casino, Olympia Entertainment, a film theater company, a development company and the Hockeytown Cafe (which formerly housed Second City Detroit) and Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit. In 2005, combined revenues of Ilitch-owned businesses totaled $1.5 billion. The company is looking to expand again, especially in the Northeast U.S. Currently, there are around 2,000 locations, down from a peak of around 5,000 in the 1990s. While Little Caesars owns the "Pizza! Pizza!" trademark in the U.S., the unaffiliated Pizza Pizza restaurant chain owns the Canadian trademark. As a result, Little Caesars cannot directly use its well-known slogan in Canada, but has used "Delivery! Delivery!", "Quality! Quality!" or other such double-word taglines in advertising and on packaging in Canada. Little Caesars was among the first to use a new kind of speed cooking conveyor oven, the "Rotary Air Impingement Oven" as described in U.S. Patent 5676044
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