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When Italian immigrants brought pizza to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its popularity soared. By the post-World War II era, American soldiers returning from Italy helped solidify pizza's place in American cuisine, sparking the rise of iconic chains like Pizza Hut and Domino's.
In modern production facilities, robust machinery mixes and kneads vast quantities of dough, which is then flattened into even sheets. Precision machines cut the dough into perfect round bases ready for the subsequent assembly of ingredients.