Modern science indicates that pizza cutters can be dangerous, turning wholes into halves and halves into quarters ad infinitum, eventually and inevitably splitting the pizza atom. Leave pie fission to experienced professionals with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of pizza and Italian fare at Jullianni's Pizzeria in Palos Heights.

The chefs at Jullianni's Pizzeria cook up a menu of made-to-order thin-crust and stuffed pizzas alongside Italian-style pastas and sandwiches. Hearty meals commence with an order of fresh mozzarella chips, breaded in-house and fried to a golden brown before appearing tableside with house marinara ($6.95). A 14-inch thin-crust alfredo pizza dappled with spinach and chicken ($20.75) proves Galileo's assertion that all theories should be tested until they culminate in a pizza, and a 12-inch Super Veggie pie stuffed with a veritable garden of mushrooms, broccoli, and onions sates herbivorous incisors ($25.75). Keep friends close and sandwiches closer with handheld fare such as The Godfather sub's slices of ham, genoa, capicola, and provolone drizzled with homemade dressing ($7.65), or admire the homemade lasagna's freshly baked strata of pasta mingling with ground beef and ricotta and topped with signature meat sauce ($12.95). Diners can round out the evening by toasting to an anniversary or a baby's first steps on the moon with a glass of red or white wine from the full-service bar and lounge.