Posted on 11/04/2025 6:56:07 AM PST by Red Badger
They hired less qualified people.....................
Only place I ever got food poisoning. Turned into Pizza Butt.
No loss. The brand has priced itself out of business.
IF we buy to-go pizza, we buy from the Pizza-Pizza folks.
Decent for the $$, comes out of the store hot!
I had a Double Dave's near me that did a full pizza and salad bar buffet every day for lunch, but that place closed after it was flooded twice by a nearby creek that overflowed in heavy rains.
Mountain Mike's in California was a go-to place for pizza buffet lunch for me when I worked there, but I started going to a closer Round Table that had a better salad bar.
When I was fresh out of college, Pizza Inn was all over the Houston area and had a pretty good pizza buffet lunch, but they shrunk their Houston presence a long time ago, and now I won't go to the areas where the remaining Pizza Inns are, as they are just too far away to go for a casual lunch.
Sadly, there are no decent pizza buffet lunch places near me nowadays.
-PJ
I stopped eating at Pizza Hut when I read in fine print that their pizzas were made with “textured vegetable protein,” whatever that is.
SOY...................
When my daughter was a teenager she worked at our CiCi’s, which is now gone.
She said, “You don’t want to eat there.”.....................
Ever out west, try Pizza Ranch. Excellent buffet. Pizza average. Fried chicken is great. Dressing. Taters. Vegies. Salad,etc.
They could start by using real cheese, properly aged.
-PJ
Bring the chain back to the 80s. Decor, food and ingredients, especially. Focus on FAMILIES. Not apartment dwelling amerifatf-ck mongrels who shop at Walmart leaned over on the cart dressed in slippers and fuzzy pajama pants. And get the hell out of the strip malls and get your red top buildings back. Red cups and pan pizzas. Scrap the low iq menu you defecate out currently.
There are ‘Mom & Pop’ pizza places that are dine-in and usually their pizzas are excellent!............
The former Pizza Hut in town is now a Mexican restaurant with a green roof.
Godfather’s.... sigh... wish they had some stores in Metro Detroit....
“I find Hershey, Mars and Nestle chocolate completely inedible”
pretty much all of the commercial “chocolate” candy makers have substituted cheap sugars for expensive chocolate ... almost the only thing that’s chocolate about them is the color ... if one were to close their eyes and have someone unwrap a piece and pop it into their mouths, they’d have no idea that what they were eating was chocolate because the sugar content is so overwhelming ...
only the very high end chocolate makers, like Chocolove, make actual chocolate candy ... and these types of chocolate makers list the percentage of chocolate in their candies ...
A big part of the problem has been YUM Brands .Everything thing they buy turns to crap fast. KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell. Though Taco Bell has managed to keep its core demo. It all has to do with their management style and their focus on maximum profit. Also, the water in Louisville KY where they are headquartered is full of funk and stuff floating down the Ohio River from Cincinnatti.
Shakey, it turns out, was an irreverent nickname given to the founder of the original restaurant for a severe involuntary tremor he had, perhaps from some channelopathy or some basal ganglion disorder.
Life was mean back in the early 1960s.
And 70s.
They erred in the 80s trying to compete with upstart Dominoes. The 30 minutes or free delivery rattled them. They invested money in new gas jet ovens which ruined their most popular product, thin and crispy. Gas jets can’t achieve the crispness.
Then they cafeteria changed dough recipes, sauces, etc. for ease and labor and cooking process. Made the pizza taste fake.
Then cheaper cheese with more oil added instead of pure mozzarella with a little provolone. Then pre-chopped veggies in bags that got wet and soggy instead of cutting fresh vegetables like they used to.
Add removing sit-down restaurants for mire carry out/delivery.
When I worked at one in college the thin and crispy was excellent. Cooked in real ovens and not gas jet conveyor belts.
Pizza Hut gave up on any sort of quality long long ago.
Spent 3 years in college hand making pan pizzas every morning so they could rise and be ready for lunch.
Now just premade and shipped in.
Pan pizza never delivered well. It needs to be eaten fresh out of the piping hot pan. That’s the entire reason they came out with hand tossed when they started delivery in the 90s
Customers however chose to still order pan anyway.
Abandoning the actual restaurant concept to race to the bottom with delivery.. I don’t know how they stand out in any way at this point
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