High quality inexpensive pizza box

A pizza container having raised bottom wall portions for air circulation underneath a pizza. This allows single-face corrugated inserts to be eliminated for cost savings. A two-piece pizza container has lid tabs hingedly joined to the lid along respective hinge lines recessed inwardly from the respective lid edges, each tab being folded along a fold line which lies generally along the respective lid edge to define an insertion portion to be received in a cut-out in a base side wall between inner and outer portions of the side wall and a portion between the insertion portion and the hinge line which is movable to effect lifting and lowering movement of the insertion portion for more easily attaching the lid and with the height of the cut-out being reduced for more effective attachment. The base has outwardly sloping side walls, and the "spring" effect of the insertion portion against the respective outer side wall portion is provided to resist downward forces on the lid to thereby protect pizza in the box.