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This is why, if you order pizza, getting anything less that the absolute largest size they offer is throwing your money away. Leftover pizza is great.
Depends on the price difference.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/food/pizza-comparison
Domino's is hardly considered pizza by most but it's $7 for a 12in. A 18in is $20. That's almost 3 pizzas. And the 12in has 2 toppings. The 18in has 0 toppings.
That's calculator doesn't take into account the crust ratio, which is much higher for smaller pizzas too.
Dominos actually got better. It's not amazing but they took it on the chin a few years back and were like, "our pizza sucks. We need to do better" and they actually improved it quite a bit.
I actually liked it better when it sucked more. I have no idea why. Maybe I identified it as college comfort food.
They also have carryout one topping 14" pizzas for $8 in my area, which is an even better deal than $7 for 12".
The math only really works for 18+ inch pizzas though. The pizza places around me don't even offer 18 inch pizzas. 14" large or 16" XL are the highest they go. In that case at most places near me, two twelves is often cheaper per square inch and does have more area than one 14" or 16". Especially since Domino's usually has coupons for two 12s that make it significantly cheaper than 1 L or XL.
Factor in the crust ratio of those though. We're talking 1.5 inch of crust, so 16" vs 12" is actually more like comparing 13" to 9" of pizza with cheese and topping. 132 v 64 square inches. You're getting 70 squares inches of crust on that 16", and 49 square inches of crust on the 12 inch. So more total food on 2 12s, but a lot more crust than one 16.
Pizza place that just opened up down the street from me only offers one size:
18 inches.
The other option is to purchase by the slice.