'''Little Caesar Enterprises Inc.''' ([[doing business as]] '''Little Caesars''') is an American multinational chain of [[Pizzeria|pizza restaurants]] that was foundedformed in 1959. Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain by total sales in the United States behind [[Pizza Hut]] and [[Domino's]].<ref name="industry">{{cite web|last=|first=|date=December 2019|title=Pizza Power Report 2020: Taking Advantage of Digital Disruption|url=https://www.pmq.com/pizza-power-report-2020/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125191343/https://www.pmq.com/pizza-power-report-2020/|archive-date=January 25, 2021|access-date=January 25, 2021|website=PMQ Pizza Magazine}}</ref> It operates and franchises pizza restaurants in the United States and internationally in [[Asia]], [[Europe]], the [[Middle East]], [[Canada]], [[Latin America]], and the [[Caribbean]]. The company is owned by [[Ilitch Holdings]], and headquartered in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]]. It is named after a 1931 "gangster film" with a similar name that was considered the first fully-fledged film of the genre.
==History==
Little Caesars Pizza was foundedformed on May 8, 1959, by the married couple [[Mike Ilitch]] and [[Marian Ilitch]]. The first location was in a strip mall in [[Garden City, Michigan]], a suburb of Detroit, and named "Little Caesar's Pizza Treat". The original store closed in October 2018, relocating down the street to a new building in nearby [[Westland, Michigan|Westland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/original-little-caesars-pizza-shop-location-closing|title=Original Little Caesars pizza shop location closing|last=Clarke|first=Rod Meloni, Kayla|website=www.clickondetroit.com|date=30 October 2018|language=en-US|access-date=December 1, 2018|archive-date=April 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429021521/https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/original-little-caesars-pizza-shop-location-closing|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/neal-rubin/2017/02/11/original-little-caesars/97814114/|title=Rubin: At the original Caesars, life and pizza go on|work=Detroit News|access-date=December 18, 2017|archive-date=December 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051134/http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/neal-rubin/2017/02/11/original-little-caesars/97814114/|url-status=live}}</ref>
The first Little Caesar's franchise location opened in 1962 in [[Warren, Michigan]] and was still called Little Caesar's Pizza Treat. The same year the Little Caesar's logo became a 3D figure and was used in outdoor signage.<ref name="our-history">https://littlecaesars.com/en-us/our-history/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806210910/https://littlecaesars.com/en-us/our-history/ |date=August 6, 2021 }} {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref>
