Little Caesars was founded by Mike Ilitch, and it was a huge risk. He and his wife, Marian, spent their entire life savings opening the doors to their pizza place on May 8, 1959, and that original location on Cherry Hill Road in Garden City, Michigan, is still there and still serving customers.

According to The Detroit News, they originally served things like fish, hot dogs, chicken, and shrimp, and in those early days the place was called Little Caesar's Pizza Treat. The first day they were open, they made 49 pizzas and kept track of their sales in a little notebook, but it was just a start. They were franchised by 1962, and 20 years later they bought the Detroit Red Wings. Their purchase of the Detroit Tigers came in 1992 (via Jacobs Media), proving the sky's pretty much the limit. Their headquarters moved to Detroit after a $12-million renovation of the Fox Theater, but they kept the doors open on their original location for a long time. When Ilitch passed away in 2017, the doors of his original store still opened the next day — for the 21,099th time.