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Pizza Hut overhauls menu amid US sales slide; curry and ginger flavored crusts on the way
AP ^ | November 10, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 11/10/2014 11:04:36 AM PST by C19fan

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To: elcid1970
I agree. Even their deep-dish Stuffed pizzas are excellent. That's why when I order pizza I get it from Papa Murphy's first.
41 posted on 11/10/2014 12:26:16 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: jalisco555

” Plus they have a terrific selection of craft beer.”

Whatever that is. Beer is beer .

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42 posted on 11/10/2014 12:29:03 PM PST by Mears
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Papa Murphy’s pizzas are excellent take and bakes. Last time I got a Pizza Hut pizza, we opened it up at home and found the large is the same size as a medium anywhere else. Not only that but toppings were scarce and the price was high. We’ve been waiting for them to go out of business. They simply are not competitive in today’s pizza market.


43 posted on 11/10/2014 12:29:50 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: ctdonath2

Pizza Hut pretty much is known for its Pan Pizza, its what literally turned it into a national chain..

Pan is a bread like dough, and yes, they do grease the pan and the end product is greasy as you mention... but its also probably about 90% if not more of their overall sales.

They have a thin and crispy as well, which is almost like a cracker crust, not sure how long they have had that, but those are the 2 types of crust they had when I started working there.

During my time there they introduced the “Hand Tossed’ crust, which is more like what you get at most pizza places, the reason for its introduction was this was the time Pizza Hut was getting into the delivery game, and while Pan Pizza was their overwhelming best seller, it also, because of the grease added to the pan to cook it, does not hold up well when placed in a bag and taken about 30 minutes to deliver... So they introduced hand tossed.

Despite these negatives about pan pizza holding up to deliver times, people still wanted and ordered it.. and it is still the overwhelming best selling crust.

I will agree with you, that if you order this type of crust which is what most folks get it will be greasy, but that’s fully a factor of how the crust cooks etc.. if you order hand tossed or thin and crispy you won’t have to deal with the greasiness of the pie... but as I said, the pan crust outsells the others by vast margins, its what literally makes pizza hut pizza hut...

To compare it to traditional pizza crust in terms of its greasiness is just not a fair comparison. Next time try the thin and crispy and or hand tossed if you don’t like the grease, those are a fairer comparison to what other chains offer...For the record Dominos introduced a pan pizza years ago as well or maybe they call it deep dish... don’t know, but it too is greasy as well.


44 posted on 11/10/2014 12:31:54 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: C19fan
curry and ginger flavored crusts on the way

I guess my two visits a year are dropping ot zero. YUK!!!!

45 posted on 11/10/2014 12:33:51 PM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: Mears
Whatever that is. Beer is beer

I beg to differ. As someone who grew up on Schlitz and PBR, and who used to think that Michelob constituted high-end, I can emphatically state that beer is not just beer.

46 posted on 11/10/2014 12:36:54 PM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: RayChuang88

Papa Murphy’s puts Pizza Hut to shame.


47 posted on 11/10/2014 12:47:16 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Mears

No one is saying pizza is pizza on this thread.


48 posted on 11/10/2014 12:55:36 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: C19fan

I would rather eat Chuck E. Cheese pizza


49 posted on 11/10/2014 1:06:04 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: C19fan

Haven’t been in a Pizza Hut since the time we ordered a delivery pizza from one of their stores and on opening the box found it infested with little (live and moving) black bugs. That and even their bug free pizza sucks.


50 posted on 11/10/2014 1:06:30 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: waterhill

That being said, Schlotsky’s has some serious pizza, but I never go there for anything but the original on rye.


51 posted on 11/10/2014 1:07:38 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: HamiltonJay

“the pan crust outsells the others by vast margins, its what literally makes pizza hut pizza hut”

And, Pizza Hut being famous for that style to the point of the general public equating the two (they’re not going to rationally analyze the options to the degree you are), interest in that style is declining and taking the brand’s profitability with it. Sure, if I stop and think about it I can realize I can order a “hand tossed” crust with a fraction of the grease ... or, like voters faced with Republicans trying to lure Democrats by shifting their positions leftward, we can vote with our feet and go somewhere specializing in what we want rather than offering it as a paltry also-ran version thereof.

When I can go to Papa Johns or Mellow Mushroom where their feature is what I want, why would I go to Pizza Hut whose feature isn’t?


52 posted on 11/10/2014 1:09:25 PM PST by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: Organic Panic
"I still support the local pizza joint with dozens of beers on tap."

Me too. Sometimes I order the pizza. ;-)

53 posted on 11/10/2014 1:10:46 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: C19fan

Almost 35 years ago I got sick from eating Pizza Hut pizza, not once, but twice, within a two week span. I’ve never been back since. And I’ve had a lot of pizza since then...all of it better than anything Pizza Hut can churn out.


54 posted on 11/10/2014 1:23:11 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: C19fan

Pizza Hut has a good product but the decline in sales, imo, is due to their high prices.


55 posted on 11/10/2014 1:23:32 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: C19fan

I think pizza is the most ruthlessly competitive food offering there is.

Within 5 miles of my little burg are:
Pizza Hut
Dominos
Marcos
Little Caesar
Papa Johns
Noble Romans
Donatos
CiCis
Fazolis
Godfathers
and 5 local brands


56 posted on 11/10/2014 1:30:54 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: C19fan

Maybe if PH got back to actually using cheese instead of relying on toppings.


57 posted on 11/10/2014 1:33:03 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Mears

Nope. I was blessed with starting to drink beer in Bavaria, where I was quickly puzzled by the common American aphorism “beer is an acquired taste” - what I was drinking there was delicious & satisfying, nothing like “acquired”. Then I came back to the USA, and spent the next years trying to find beer that didn’t taste like...well...whatever the domestic mass-produced stuff is, it ain’t beer even though it’s called that.


58 posted on 11/10/2014 1:40:31 PM PST by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: C19fan

I ate at a Pizza Hut once, While visiting the state of Florida.
NASTY, But then almost ALL pizza in Florida is NASTY.


59 posted on 11/10/2014 1:41:43 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: waterhill

Oooh! the burn! you’re baking the bystanders!


60 posted on 11/10/2014 1:42:52 PM PST by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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