Teenagers idolize pizza due to its portable nature and refusal to stay in a box, man. Eat your way to independence with today's Groupon to Bartolini's Restaurant in Midlothian. Choose between the following options:

• For $10, you get $20 worth Italian fare Saturday–Thursday.
For $10, you get $20 worth of Italian fare on Friday.

Bartolini's chefs keep bellies brimming with a menu of hearty, family-friendly Italian fare. Thin-crust ($10.95+), deep-dish ($11.99+), and sicilian pan ($13.99+) pizzas bear arrays of meaty toppings, and specialty disks provide pre-arranged arrays like the alfredo-bedecked white pizza ($14.95+) and the tangy barbecue-chicken pizza ($14.94+). Chicken tetrazzini ($9.95) with white-wine cream sauce and mama's lasagna ($8.49–$9.49) wrap digestive systems in a nostalgic hug, and a fleet of sandwiches ($3.49+) provide a portable, bread-based meal for on-the-lam bank robbers.

Fearless food lovers can face Bartolini's signature 10-pound meatball sandwich that comes with red gravy, melted mozzarella, and sweet or hot peppers resting on a french-bread bed. Digestive daredevils who conquer the sub in less than three hours get the meal for free and gain the ability to communicate telepathically with meatloaves.