Simple laziness has spurred many culinary inventions, including the sandwich, the blender, and the pizza, which was invented as a way to wheel heavy ingredients from place to place. Transport your palate with today’s Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of Italian cuisine at Al Dente in Leominster.

Serving traditional Italian meals alongside signature items, Al Dente's chefs prepare a robust menu of family-style eats. Salad plates chaperone a caprese party of ripe tomatoes, mozzarella hunks, and basil as they pillow-fight on a romaine-lettuce bed ($8.99). For Al Dente's ravioli di zucca, butternut squash squashes itself into raviolis, mingles with diced tomatoes and walnuts, and frolics in a four-cheese cream sauce ($17.75). Daily made sausage and meatballs accompany bacon and hamburger on the meat lovers' pie ($11.75+), and a ragtag ensemble of spinach, garlic, tomatoes, feta, and mozzarella cheese colonizes the sauce-less terrain of the Al Dente pizza ($11.75+). Chocolate-fudge cake goes mano a mano with Fudge Fantasy to charm over dessert-desperate taste buds, and carrot cake and key lime pie indulge tongues seeking fruitier fare ($5.95).