PIZZA THE HUTT
Why does Pizza come from a Hut?
Worse, why would you want Pita from a Pit?
I remember when Pizza Hut used to be good. Vaguely. Because that was a long time ago.
Without the dine in portion, Pizza Hut will never reclaim its former dominance. Dominos, Papa Johns, Little Caesars, don’t really have serious dine in, and Pizza Hut will not shake Dominos reputation for faster delivery, and Pizza Huts cheapening of product will not help against Papa Johnsx Little Caesars remains the cheap option.
I rarely eat fast food, or consume America’s most famous food brands
And because of that, when I do have them, I can notice the steady reduction in quality (IMHO) which I believe comes from constantly chasing lower-cost substitute ingredients, as well as automation, which comes from constant inflation in our economy, high debt, and the corporate need for specific returns.
For example, I find Hershey, Mars and Nestle chocolate completely inedible. Several articles I have read, describing how high cocoa costs have caused massive substitution of cocoa with non-cocoa fats and ingredients over recent years, have confirmed this suspicion.
Pizza Hut has awful pizza, but my husband loves it because he grew up in Wichita, from where it originated. I grew up in Northern Illinois, where there were dozens of pizzarias run by real Italians, who made outstanding pizza. It’s not easy to get authentic pizza in northeast Oklahoma. Hideaway Pizza is fair to middling, and I’ve heard there’s one decent place in Tulsa, but for the most part, people in Oklahoma have no idea what real pizza even tastes like. I can make a really good pizza at home, but my husband still prefers Pizza Hut. The sauce is key, and theirs sucks.
Only way I’d ever eat Pizza Hut is if original pan recipe from 1970’s.
Yum’s golden boy is Taco Bell, which they are trying to expand worldwide. KFC is a has-been in the US in the fried chicken wars but is still profitable outside the US. They also own Habit Burger, which is slowly growing.
Long-winded way of saying, "We have no idea what we're doing."
Here's my guess: spreadsheet operators who know nothing about running restaurants decided to "maximize shareholder value" (i.e., increase their own pay and bonuses) by reducing staff, lowering the quality of ingredients and portion size and raising prices.
Somehow (unexpectedly!) consumers refused to pay more for crappier food and bad service, and the Wall Street wizards are surprised.
I like Pizza Hut’s supreme pizza but lately instead of their own delivery drivers they’ve been using door dash drivers who always arrive late with a cold pizza. Nevermore.
I like their pizza better than most of the other chains but it’s not as good as it used to be. They changed their recipe, and I don’t like it as well, then they changed it back but it’s still not as good as it used to be.
My least favorite of the big chains is Little Sleazers, but they have a following.
Another well known name getting asset stripped.
Someone should buy it and return it to what Pizza Hut used to be.
Bring back the lunch buffet and the red plastic glasses.
I can’t believe that they didn’t make money this way.
-PJ
Bring it back as a sit down place again.
I guess their desire to go back to the 1970’s recipe never happened. Piss poor management kills yet another successful company.
At one time Pizza Hut had good pizza but sometime in the 2000s, around the same time they got rid of their nice dine in locations for cheap carry out places, the food quality just dropped and it’s never gotten better.
Maybe get rid of all the extraneous crap and focus on the basics. Concentrate on making a great pizza. Enough with the gimmicks.
Only place I ever got food poisoning. Turned into Pizza Butt.