I remember Pizza Hut Buffets in the late 80s and the 90s and even the early 2000s. Man, Pizza Hut in those days couldn't do no wrong. The buffet was an experience. Who remembers the red plastic cups? Yo, the soda hit different out those cups. The brownie pizza and the arcade there, man, these young kids missed a whole era. And can't forget getting a free Pan Pizza for reading books in school. Got aplenty of Pan Pizzas that way. Greed will kill your business faster than a bad economy ever will. In this day and age, I go to the mom and pop pizza spots for really good pizza.
I miss the lunch buffets a lot. I used to go there often. Now the two locations near me are closed and replaced with a single pickup and delivery location only. No more sit down buffet. A shame. The company is being run into the ground.
@LoveClassicMusic0205 Tell me about it!! So many great memories from eating at Pizza Hut buffets over the years. My homeboys and I, whether we played soccer or skateboarding afterward, would always eat there. Ate there for my 13th birthday in '97 on the same day my Chicago Vulls won their fifth NBA title.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 dining rooms are going the way of ALL storefront shopping.... online ordering. turnaround in a sitdown family style place HAS to stay under 20 minutes in most markets, to keep profitability ratios high enough to barely cover labor expenses. rent. rent. rent. the property taxes on square footage for businesses is pretty damn steep too !
I think one of the biggest problems for corporate America is Greed, plain and simple, The amount of money that is being paid out to the CEO's and upper management these days, then these companies have to take care of the stock holders, prices go sky high, and it just starts the domino effect, and business goes to pot !!!
Agreed !! How can you expect people to keep coming back, when every time they do the price has gone up or a topping that used to be standard is now considered extra. And the employees are always leaving, due to low wages. Yet on the news , it's regular to hear of upper management leaving with golden parachutes. Of millions of $. Then the next thing you hear is they're in financial difficulties DUH!!!
Why do you guys think that a franchise Pizza Hut is a large company. It's a small business owned by a franchisee. They don't get help from corporate and have to run the location as a stand-alone. They just buy the ingredients from corporate. Come on now.
I know this is a dumb reason for stopping eating there, but I used to order online and drive up and pick up my pizza. That was great. Then one day I went online to order a pizza and when I was going to check out it asked me to leave a tip. I was floored. I didn't speak to anyone, I was going to pick the pizza up myself, and you are asking me to pay more? Just pay the cook more money, why should it be my responsibility to pay the cook more money? That was like 4 years ago lol, never ate Pizza Hut since.
@thenerdnetwork The whole tipping thing is out of hand. I went to the Subway drive thru not to long ago. I handed the cashier my card to swipe and she put her hand up to stop me. she then handed me the gizmo so I could swipe it myself, which I thought odd. It made sense real fast when it prompted me for a tip! I don't think so!
They were making so much money in the 80s. Had fresh dough made in store. Everything on their salad bar. Closed doors 10pm. Then excel spreadsheet was invented and corporate computer monitored everything to save as many pennies as possible. Cut amount of dough. Cut amount of cheese. Cut service hours. Cut salad bar selections. Lower product quality, same price. Customers left. As customers left, so did the money. Doesn't take a college degree in business to see what went wrong, but apparently it does take one to create this mess. moral of the story: Business is about people. When you remove humanity from the equation, it falls a part.
This is true but we should also note the advent of delivery services like Postmates, Grubhub and DoorDash meant that there was also a lot more competition. Not to mention changing tastes from consumers who wanted a wider variety of dishes meant less pizzas overall being ordered.
And now that they've shot themselves in the foot over the last several decades, its too late to go back. People just dont associate any kind of quality, or entertainment with Pizza Hut anymore.
100% truth. Corporate freaks out if one of their ground level employees puts so much as an extra 0.5 ounces of cheese onto the pizza than the recipe called for. Pinching pennies to burn c-notes.
I worked for a pizza chain in the '70s. We made fresh dough using a huge mixer. With the fabulous resources we had, I made some of the best pizzas anyone ever ate! We had fresh ingredients, 4 beautiful deck ovens, I cooked my teen-age a$$ off each weekend...and...was satisfied because people loved the food. 🤗Good memories.
Kind of amusing. Just makes me want to shop at small businesses that much more and avoid greedy corporations like Walmart and Pizza hut. They can kiss it😂
The delivery apps only pay $2 as base pay for delivery (DD GH UE) if the delivery charge is more than that, then it goes to restaurant and also the delivery apps. If using delivery apps, tip the drivers directly.Its the only real way to know they got your tip..
Lower quality, poor treatment of employees, and higher prices = fail. The CEOs won’t care though, they will receive a severance package worth several million dollars.
I'm done with Pizza Hut. Their pizza was good back in the 80's and 90's, now it's lousy. Scarce cheese and toppings, employees don't give a crap. Never again will you get my money.
The local Dominoes got rid of their dining area and simply expanded their production space to double down on take out/delivery. Meanwhile, the Pizza hut around here moved locations from a traditional Pizza Hut hut building into a strip mall. where Papa Johns used to be at.
I think that Pizza Hut is making a huge mistake by considering dine-in to be a liability. The fact is, it is something unique that they have that none of their major competitors have. With the right people in charge, the right attitude, and the right plan, they might be able to turn that 'liability' into an asset.
Agree! Pizza Hut recently changed a sour dough formula for their crust and it was NOT a good change. Or, it least, the franchise owner did that in my area.
Thats that frozen dough. Its not hard to make fresh dough, either. Its the push for that corporate consistency between all locations that really drops the quality. They try to make it easy for all the wage slave employees to be able to pump out the same pizza at any location.
So, do you want to know why that fantastic family owned pizza place is still, since way back in the early 1950's is still working today? It's because they never changed the recipe. I managed a Pizza Hut in the early 1970's. When the brothers sold out, for some reason, the various companies that followed thought, "gotta get with the times." Huge mistake. Stick to the original and would be big bucks today.
So, minimum wage is $20/hr, $13 pizza somehow costs $30 by time it's delivered, the quality and quantity of the ingredients haven't improved, and poor customer service... ...I have no idea why pizza hut might go out of business. SMH
Something also needs to be done with uber eats/delivery drivers. Most are honest hard working people, but some are just nasty people who can't take a break and eat their own food and instead decide to pick up on some of yours. They started sealing food and making package more voluminous, but not all places seal food properly, like Pizza Hut, where they may place the seal on either edge but not both. The grossness of having a missing slice and a bitten one is by far my worst experience having food. Never coming back to that location, lost my desire for the brand Hut and picking up my own food as much as I can. As for regular pizza delivery drivers, they seem upset no matter how much you tip them. I'd rather pick the mile away carry out than having an awkward moment for a few dollars. Its just a $20 pizza from a mile away....
Quality, quality, quality. Hell, they don't even cook the deeppan pizza long enough to give it a crispy crust anymore. Just soft dough. From delicious thirty years ago to awful today. That's why.
Doesn't help that more and more Pizza Hut and fast food employees look like they were just released from jail , kicked out of a drug treatment facility or crawled out of a gutter. Disgusting!!!
When I became an adult, I decided to opt out of chain pizza. Since then, I have enjoyed real pizza made by actual Italians at small family owned businesses.
I have eaten PH for many years having grown up in the founding city of Wichita. Their pizza was amazing the only game in town until they sold out to PepsiCo. It has been going downhill since. I cannot eat i t any more. It makes me ill.
I had a pizza at Pizza Hut the other day and it was the most fantastic pizza I have had since the 80’s . Unfortunently, I was in Vietnam at the time. How come a company can make a perfect pizza in Vietnam, but can’t in the US? Pizza Hut could turn themselves around if they went back to what made them famous, great pizza.
Everywhere I travel, I always get my pizza from a local mom and pop joint that has been around for a very long time and is are a favorite with locals. Shout out to Mauro's pizza Hollywood Florida, Famous Joe's in Greenwich village NYC/Wynwood Miami, Pendelli's Montreal, Quebec and too many local joints from Fort Lee to Wildwood NJ serving NJ white cheese !
Pizza Hut tasted better in the '80s when I was a kid. As time went on the quality went down. I wondered if they're pre-made or switched cheaper Ingredients. They're deep dish pizza is my favorite pizza of theirs, but I've had better ones elsewhere. I don't eat there as much anymore.
Is it just me or is something a bit wrong with the audio commentary part? It almost sounds like the microphone gain is too high or something. The news clips they played sound completely normal.
1) they went cheap on the ingredients like most meats are now chicken/turkey based, very little beef/pork in them now. 2) the pzone was great, just needed option to customize the toppings in it 3) the new melts are cooked way too long and the bread is super crispy ruining it 4) dominoes and little ceasars doing really cheap options, and pizza hut doesnt have the flavor to beat competitors prices 5) no option for medium size stuffed crust pizzas. and their large stuffed crust is smaller as all they do is fold over the crust edge making you lose size.
They changed their sause to the point that it was in edible. WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY A FOOD THAT WAS TOO HORRIBLE TO EAT? I quit going or ordering from them more than a decade ago.
Its weird! For a long time, I would go to Pizza Hut NOT for their pizza, but for their dessert and boneless wings because they were a pretty good deal! But since they got rid of the pick 2 for 5 bucks menu, I havent been back. Every item they sell now is at least 7 bucks and not worth that! 7 bucks for 10 cinnabon mini rolls!? NAH!! Even the sodas were a good price. 4 for 5 bucks and now its even more!
Pizza Hut was so good in 90s and early 2000s! I had it this year and it is just "Mid" at best now. They did have lemon pepper fries which were pretty decent.
Does anybody remember Pizza Hut in the 80s, when you went into the restaurant and sat down, and they would give you a great pan pizza, with a lot of toppings? Those were great times. They used a lot of cheese, and they weren’t shy with the toppings.when we order now we have to make sure we ask, could you put enough toppings on it.. they leave the toppings far from the crust of the pizza, and in Canada where I live, pizza is really expensive. There’s so much competition nowadays, that there’s nothing that makes them stand out. In the 80s it was really special to go out and have a pizza! It’s a shame, because I really like Pizza Hut!
The few times I ate at my local Pizza Hut all of the crusts were virtually tasteless. It wasn't a problem with my taste buds because I had no problem tasting the other ingredients except for any of those on any of the items I ordered.
They lost it decades ago. Now all we got in major chains are shitty dominos and papa John's, which both suck. Eat local people it's more bang for the buck
I always loved Pizza Hut, deep dish, PAN pizza. But the last couple of pizzas I got from them. I had special request to cook it a little bit longer to add pepperoni. None of what I wanted was done and that was several different pizza huts. They don't cook to order. They cook the way they want to cook it.
When we first moved to our new town before the pandemic we went to Pizza Hut. It was really bad back then. Only went one more time. Haven't been there since end of 2020.
Pizza Hut of my day was way better when they had the family style restaurant to sit in and enjoy their food. Which by the way was a better quality product. IMOP
When I was in highschool, graduated in 78, The Hut was the place to go. Only thin crust without all the fru-fru. It's been downhill ever since. Last time I got Pizza Hut was about 15 years ago and it sucked. In my town, we had a Pizza Hut restaurant, but it became carry-out only. That closed about a year ago. However, we gained a Mom n Pop pizzeria that's waaay better than Pizza Hut. Cheers from Tennessee
Once Pizza Hut did away with there real pizza ovens and went over to a conveyor system, to bad toppings, cheeses, crust, and no more dining in it was game over. Now it's so bad you don't know if it will be cooked or not.
The PH by my house went down in quality both the food and service I haven’t been there in like 3yrs. Last time i tried to take advantage of a deal which was 1 large pizza and a medium pizza for a good price at the time but when i got there they ran out of it apparently and instead gave me a square shaped pizza offer and said it did equal to 2 large pizzas. I don’t know if that’s legal but it certainly wasn’t cool for them to do that
Once I saw that their "pizzas" are now frozen breadstick Dough with toppings over it, this camed as no surprise. No buffet anymore $3 soda servings...no Quality at all. Even their pastas and garlic bread are now frozen, nothing fresh. 💀
It's kind funny that I'm seeing this, because the 7-Eleven in my neighborhood closed down and all of a sudden a few months after it closed, a Pizza Hut sign was put up; an actual Pizza Hut sign installed. It was also accompanied by a banner that says "opening soon". I was like, is this for real?! A new Pizza Hut opening while it's in complete decline looks like a disaster. Whoever franchised it is going to lose a lot of money.
Pizza Hut needs to go back to its roots that was a goto location that you either took a date to or planned a family outing to. It used to be a better quality pie and salad bar, rewards for high grades for children, occasionally live music, good music, pleasant surroundings, an inviting environment, and with service with a smile by a pleasant waitress. I tell you that the concept of Pizza Hut being a carryout or a delivery jount violated everything I held in asteme with Pizza Hut! PIZZA HUT NEEDS TO GO BACK TO BEING A DESTINATION THAT CUSTOMERS WOULD MAKE PLANS TO GOTO!!!
I worked there almost 20 years ago. Before smartphones in a wealthy neighborhood. Rich people loved their pizzahut delivery. I bet smartphones ruined it. And fresh what. thats crazy lol
When you get it fresh from the oven their stuffed crust pizza is not too awful. The pan pizza is nowhere near as good as it used to be and forget about the rest. It still tastes pretty good in Europe and Canada though.
no great loss. Frozen grocery store pizza is better. They opened several of them over the decades in my home town and every time they went out of business after scraping by for about 3-5 years each. No idea why they kept trying.
It what managers are taught to do to drivers is cash them out when they are on their way back to the store, then dispatch them on their next order and have them do odd jobs while waiting for their order to come up. Pizza Hut has to pay wages for drivers, one is mini wage while in store and one is waiter wages while on a drivlery. It's illegal to do this and when I called them out for doing it as a manager I was fired,but I wasn't fired for that but claimed I left work during my shift and refused to come back. they sent me home because I hurt my arm the day before and said I wasn't able to do my job. told me I needed a doctor's note to come back, which they denied to unemployment. was a long legal battle. this was NPC
The best thing about Pizza Hut (at least in Australia) is when they do $1 Wings Wednesday and have cheap wings. Otherwise, their pizzas are generally poor value compared to other fast food options.
Pizza Hut should go under, but the competition is as bad or worse. People will either have to stop getting pizza, change to an equally bad chain or costlier local brand, or just accpet what they are offered. History says that they will continue to buy from Pizza Hut. They might start making their own, but that is also expensive and, more to the point, time consuming.
Little Caesars is the worst for this. I don't think I've ever had a fully baked pizza from them, and that's when you tell them to bake it well done. Totally agree, soggy crust is the biggest pizza turnoff. Everything else can be pretty bad but the crust at least has to be there.
Yes.!!! I am 100% done with Pizza Hut! So many things here is so accurate. I can’t deal with how small the pizza has gotten and how ridiculously expensive the price is. INSANE!!! It makes absolutely no sense. I am disgusted by the cost. And yes, I am always having problems with their app. I don’t care about Pizza Hut anymore. Obviously they don’t care about their Customers, so why should we care?! 🙄Good. Happy and glad to see that they will be forced out of the business the industry soon because of their own problem. These corporations are in their own way. Pizza Hut is not worth it
Pizza hut has been garbage for years. In the 90s their Caesar salad had real bacon in it it wasn't just lettuce and came with pre-packaged dressing. And they change the recipe of their pizza it's not the same
Whoa, im preheating my oven right now to cook my frozen pizza (motor City pizza co.), not because pizza hut is too expensive, its because im cheap. just like my pet deposit, emotional support letter is cheaper.
I stopped ordering from my local Pizza Hut after they stopped delivering themselves and started using doordash and then started forgetting to deliver my drinks and the door dash guys don't care and won't go back and get them
They had to get on DoorDash as a business to stay competitive. If they didn’t, then we humans would complain that they are not on DoorDash? And we’ll complain they lack innovation?🙄We are never happy with anything. I’m glad they’re going out of business. Their price has gotten ridiculously expensive it makes absolutely no sense! And I can’t get over how small the pizza has gotten. Not worth it.
Lets just make minim wage $40.00 an hour, and make it so you can't get fired of be laid off and they have to give you 40 hours a week. That will fix it. oh and they can not raise prices.
When it comes to fast food or pizza places i don't no why people go to the chains. You can usually go to a private burger place or pizza place and the food is cheaper and usually a lot better.I would never go Mcdonalds or BK Wendy's those places are shit holes.Most of the kids working there don't give a crap about anything and i know in east Texas they can't get a manager to manage these places as it seems they don't care either.I don't no what's going on in this world anymore everything is going out of business no one cares it's just pathetic.....
Pizza Hut is golden. Maybe not all of the franchises but as a brand name and the fact that nostalgia will never go away. This brand is good. Pizza Hut pizza also has a taste that is strictly their own and people will always crave it if only for nostalgic reasons.
I remember Pizza Hut Buffets in the late 80s and the 90s and even the early 2000s. Man, Pizza Hut in those days couldn't do no wrong. The buffet was an experience. Who remembers the red plastic cups? Yo, the soda hit different out those cups. The brownie pizza and the arcade there, man, these young kids missed a whole era. And can't forget getting a free Pan Pizza for reading books in school. Got aplenty of Pan Pizzas that way. Greed will kill your business faster than a bad economy ever will. In this day and age, I go to the mom and pop pizza spots for really good pizza.
I miss the lunch buffets a lot. I used to go there often. Now the two locations near me are closed and replaced with a single pickup and delivery location only. No more sit down buffet. A shame. The company is being run into the ground.
@LoveClassicMusic0205 Tell me about it!! So many great memories from eating at Pizza Hut buffets over the years. My homeboys and I, whether we played soccer or skateboarding afterward, would always eat there. Ate there for my 13th birthday in '97 on the same day my Chicago Vulls won their fifth NBA title.
Imo the local mom and pop stores where always been better then corporate pizza spots.
Yeah the buffet was awesome.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 dining rooms are going the way of ALL storefront shopping.... online ordering. turnaround in a sitdown family style place HAS to stay under 20 minutes in most markets, to keep profitability ratios high enough to barely cover labor expenses. rent. rent. rent. the property taxes on square footage for businesses is pretty damn steep too !
I think one of the biggest problems for corporate America is Greed, plain and simple, The amount of money that is being paid out to the CEO's and upper management these days, then these companies have to take care of the stock holders, prices go sky high, and it just starts the domino effect, and business goes to pot !!!
Agreed !! How can you expect people to keep coming back, when every time they do the price has gone up or a topping that used to be standard is now considered extra. And the employees are always leaving, due to low wages. Yet on the news , it's regular to hear of upper management leaving with golden parachutes. Of millions of $. Then the next thing you hear is they're in financial difficulties DUH!!!
Agreed. Let them all go out of business.
the domino effect is that what happens when you eat dominos pizza? lol
Why do you guys think that a franchise Pizza Hut is a large company. It's a small business owned by a franchisee. They don't get help from corporate and have to run the location as a stand-alone. They just buy the ingredients from corporate. Come on now.
"it just starts the DOMINO effect" indeed I agree
I know this is a dumb reason for stopping eating there, but I used to order online and drive up and pick up my pizza. That was great. Then one day I went online to order a pizza and when I was going to check out it asked me to leave a tip. I was floored. I didn't speak to anyone, I was going to pick the pizza up myself, and you are asking me to pay more? Just pay the cook more money, why should it be my responsibility to pay the cook more money? That was like 4 years ago lol, never ate Pizza Hut since.
@thenerdnetwork
The whole tipping thing is out of hand. I went to the Subway drive thru not to long ago. I handed the cashier my card to swipe and she put her hand up to stop me. she then handed me the gizmo so I could swipe it myself, which I thought odd. It made sense real fast when it prompted me for a tip! I don't think so!
They were making so much money in the 80s. Had fresh dough made in store. Everything on their salad bar. Closed doors 10pm.
Then excel spreadsheet was invented and corporate computer monitored everything to save as many pennies as possible. Cut amount of dough. Cut amount of cheese. Cut service hours. Cut salad bar selections. Lower product quality, same price. Customers left.
As customers left, so did the money.
Doesn't take a college degree in business to see what went wrong, but apparently it does take one to create this mess.
moral of the story: Business is about people. When you remove humanity from the equation, it falls a part.
Wow if I would've read the comments I could've saved time! Well said!
This is true but we should also note the advent of delivery services like Postmates, Grubhub and DoorDash meant that there was also a lot more competition. Not to mention changing tastes from consumers who wanted a wider variety of dishes meant less pizzas overall being ordered.
And now that they've shot themselves in the foot over the last several decades, its too late to go back. People just dont associate any kind of quality, or entertainment with Pizza Hut anymore.
100% truth. Corporate freaks out if one of their ground level employees puts so much as an extra 0.5 ounces of cheese onto the pizza than the recipe called for. Pinching pennies to burn c-notes.
I worked for a pizza chain in the '70s. We made fresh dough using a huge mixer. With the fabulous resources we had, I made some of the best pizzas anyone ever ate!
We had fresh ingredients, 4 beautiful deck ovens, I cooked my teen-age a$$ off each weekend...and...was satisfied because people loved the food. 🤗Good memories.
Its amazing how these rich shareholders would rather go out of business than take less as individuals.
Kind of amusing. Just makes me want to shop at small businesses that much more and avoid greedy corporations like Walmart and Pizza hut. They can kiss it😂
Delivery charge is $6 alone. And it’s not for a tip. What is it for then.
for the business. the employee never sees it.
The delivery apps only pay $2 as base pay for delivery (DD GH UE) if the delivery charge is more than that, then it goes to restaurant and also the delivery apps. If using delivery apps, tip the drivers directly.Its the only real way to know they got your tip..
Lower quality, poor treatment of employees, and higher prices = fail. The CEOs won’t care though, they will receive a severance package worth several million dollars.
I'm done with Pizza Hut. Their pizza was good back in the 80's and 90's, now it's lousy. Scarce cheese and toppings, employees don't give a crap. Never again will you get my money.
Domino's is better. If I want a chain pizza, that's where I go!!
To me, Domino's is different regionally. It sucks where I live.
Took you long enough OP. I haven't ordered anything from there in over 12 years.
Exactly!
Have not had Pizza Hut in almost 10 years. Quality changed to much for the worst
Little Cesar's 🍕 is the best value for budget brand pizza spots. Papa John's pizza goes up, down ⬆️⬇️ ....
Went there recently. Nasty. It changed. Alot.
Shut up
I used to like PH, but the quality has gone down so much, it is borderline disgusting now. I will never eat there again.
Shut up
The local Dominoes got rid of their dining area and simply expanded their production space to double down on take out/delivery.
Meanwhile, the Pizza hut around here moved locations from a traditional Pizza Hut hut building into a strip mall. where Papa Johns used to be at.
If I go to a place that has no physical menu I leave.
I agree even printed menus are not that damn hard! Stop trying to blame CoVid19 😷 .....
I think that Pizza Hut is making a huge mistake by considering dine-in to be a liability. The fact is, it is something unique that they have that none of their major competitors have. With the right people in charge, the right attitude, and the right plan, they might be able to turn that 'liability' into an asset.
The crust is gross nowadays I want the 80s style pizza crust back
Agree! Pizza Hut recently changed a sour dough formula for their crust and it was NOT a good change. Or, it least, the franchise owner did that in my area.
Thats that frozen dough.
Its not hard to make fresh dough, either. Its the push for that corporate consistency between all locations that really drops the quality. They try to make it easy for all the wage slave employees to be able to pump out the same pizza at any location.
I've been disabled for over 10yrs. I make dough in a Bread Maker. Pizza dough, cinnamon rolls, etc. 🤗 I encourage everyone to try it!!!
it taste the same to me
So, do you want to know why that fantastic family owned pizza place is still, since way back in the early 1950's is still working today? It's because they never changed the recipe. I managed a Pizza Hut in the early 1970's. When the brothers sold out, for some reason, the various companies that followed thought, "gotta get with the times." Huge mistake. Stick to the original and would be big bucks today.
Great comment that is easy to follow and makes perfect sense.
So, minimum wage is $20/hr, $13 pizza somehow costs $30 by time it's delivered, the quality and quantity of the ingredients haven't improved, and poor customer service...
...I have no idea why pizza hut might go out of business. SMH
I remember when it was good. A looooooong time ago.
Shareholders before customers.
My pizza huts have turned to garbage for a while, takes 2 hours or more for delivery plus the quality has dropped, so sad
Duh, ALWAYS was garbage to Italians!
Did you see the viral video of how much sugar is in their pizza. After seeing it I'm glad I haven't eaten their pizza for 4 years
They were never that good unless your high that's it
Something also needs to be done with uber eats/delivery drivers. Most are honest hard working people, but some are just nasty people who can't take a break and eat their own food and instead decide to pick up on some of yours. They started sealing food and making package more voluminous, but not all places seal food properly, like Pizza Hut, where they may place the seal on either edge but not both. The grossness of having a missing slice and a bitten one is by far my worst experience having food. Never coming back to that location, lost my desire for the brand Hut and picking up my own food as much as I can. As for regular pizza delivery drivers, they seem upset no matter how much you tip them. I'd rather pick the mile away carry out than having an awkward moment for a few dollars. Its just a $20 pizza from a mile away....
Pizza hut was dead to me since they changed their pan and personal pan pizza crusts
to what?! hasnt it always been the same lol
@@chelseaoguike7570The pizza dough used to be made fresh every day, now it’s frozen.
Quality, quality, quality. Hell, they don't even cook the deeppan pizza long enough to give it a crispy crust anymore. Just soft dough. From delicious thirty years ago to awful today. That's why.
I stopped going there once they changed their recipe
Doesn't help that more and more Pizza Hut and fast food employees look like they were just released from jail , kicked out of a drug treatment facility or crawled out of a gutter. Disgusting!!!
Because the product is not worth the price anymore.
When I became an adult, I decided to opt out of chain pizza. Since then, I have enjoyed real pizza made by actual Italians at small family owned businesses.
I have eaten PH for many years having grown up in the founding city of Wichita. Their pizza was amazing the only game in town until they sold out to PepsiCo. It has been going downhill since. I cannot eat i t any more. It makes me ill.
I had a pizza at Pizza Hut the other day and it was the most fantastic pizza I have had since the 80’s . Unfortunently, I was in Vietnam at the time. How come a company can make a perfect pizza in Vietnam, but can’t in the US? Pizza Hut could turn themselves around if they went back to what made them famous, great pizza.
I don’t know what happened, but they no longer sell good tasting food anymore.
Everywhere I travel, I always get my pizza from a local mom and pop joint that has been around for a very long time and is are a favorite with locals. Shout out to Mauro's pizza Hollywood Florida, Famous Joe's in Greenwich village NYC/Wynwood Miami, Pendelli's Montreal, Quebec and too many local joints from Fort Lee to Wildwood NJ serving NJ white cheese !
Their base pizza prices are absurdly high despite I have always enjoyed Pizza Hut over the decades
Pizza Hut tasted better in the '80s when I was a kid. As time went on the quality went down. I wondered if they're pre-made or switched cheaper Ingredients. They're deep dish pizza is my favorite pizza of theirs, but I've had better ones elsewhere. I don't eat there as much anymore.
Is it just me or is something a bit wrong with the audio commentary part? It almost sounds like the microphone gain is too high or something. The news clips they played sound completely normal.
Yeah real loud then normal
1) they went cheap on the ingredients like most meats are now chicken/turkey based, very little beef/pork in them now.
2) the pzone was great, just needed option to customize the toppings in it
3) the new melts are cooked way too long and the bread is super crispy ruining it
4) dominoes and little ceasars doing really cheap options, and pizza hut doesnt have the flavor to beat competitors prices
5) no option for medium size stuffed crust pizzas. and their large stuffed crust is smaller as all they do is fold over the crust edge making you lose size.
Stop bitching
Very 🎉🦚 proud - to claim, "No one out pizzas The Hur".
Practically ANY pizza 🍕 joint would!
They changed their sause to the point that it was in edible. WHY WOULD ANYONE BUY A FOOD THAT WAS TOO HORRIBLE TO EAT? I quit going or ordering from them more than a decade ago.
Its weird! For a long time, I would go to Pizza Hut NOT for their pizza, but for their dessert and boneless wings because they were a pretty good deal! But since they got rid of the pick 2 for 5 bucks menu, I havent been back. Every item they sell now is at least 7 bucks and not worth that! 7 bucks for 10 cinnabon mini rolls!? NAH!! Even the sodas were a good price. 4 for 5 bucks and now its even more!
Pizza Hut was so good in 90s and early 2000s! I had it this year and it is just "Mid" at best now. They did have lemon pepper fries which were pretty decent.
Does anybody remember Pizza Hut in the 80s, when you went into the restaurant and sat down, and they would give you a great pan pizza, with a lot of toppings? Those were great times. They used a lot of cheese, and they weren’t shy with the toppings.when we order now we have to make sure we ask, could you put enough toppings on it.. they leave the toppings far from the crust of the pizza, and in Canada where I live, pizza is really expensive. There’s so much competition nowadays, that there’s nothing that makes them stand out. In the 80s it was really special to go out and have a pizza! It’s a shame, because I really like Pizza Hut!
LOWER YOUR PRICES
The few times I ate at my local Pizza Hut all of the crusts were virtually tasteless. It wasn't a problem with my taste buds because I had no problem tasting the other ingredients except for any of those on any of the items I ordered.
Don't remember when, but the last few times that i ordered from them is when they had The New Yorker followed by the P'Zone.
I had Pizza Hut a few months ago after not having had it for years. It was just sub par quality. Wont be having it again any time soon....
They lost it decades ago. Now all we got in major chains are shitty dominos and papa John's, which both suck. Eat local people it's more bang for the buck
We only get local mom and pop shop pizza 2x a month. It's good but way too expensive. There's about 4 places we give the go-around.
Shut up
I always loved Pizza Hut, deep dish, PAN pizza. But the last couple of pizzas I got from them. I had special request to cook it a little bit longer to add pepperoni. None of what I wanted was done and that was several different pizza huts. They don't cook to order. They cook the way they want to cook it.
When we first moved to our new town before the pandemic we went to Pizza Hut. It was really bad back then. Only went one more time. Haven't been there since end of 2020.
pizza hut is to expensive I love it more than any other one but it is to expensive for me
Pizza Hut of my day was way better when they had the family style restaurant to sit in and enjoy their food. Which by the way was a better quality product. IMOP
When I was in highschool, graduated in 78, The Hut was the place to go. Only thin crust without all the fru-fru. It's been downhill ever since. Last time I got Pizza Hut was about 15 years ago and it sucked. In my town, we had a Pizza Hut restaurant, but it became carry-out only. That closed about a year ago. However, we gained a Mom n Pop pizzeria that's waaay better than Pizza Hut. Cheers from Tennessee
Once Pizza Hut did away with there real pizza ovens and went over to a conveyor system, to bad toppings, cheeses, crust, and no more dining in it was game over. Now it's so bad you don't know if it will be cooked or not.
The PH by my house went down in quality both the food and service I haven’t been there in like 3yrs. Last time i tried to take advantage of a deal which was 1 large pizza and a medium pizza for a good price at the time but when i got there they ran out of it apparently and instead gave me a square shaped pizza offer and said it did equal to 2 large pizzas. I don’t know if that’s legal but it certainly wasn’t cool for them to do that
I hope this does not affect PH here in Canada because we just got one in my town and it's great.
Once I saw that their "pizzas" are now frozen breadstick Dough with toppings over it, this camed as no surprise. No buffet anymore $3 soda servings...no Quality at all. Even their pastas and garlic bread are now frozen, nothing fresh. 💀
Pizza Hut New Zealand closed all restaurants years ago. They are only takeaway/delivery these days.
It's kind funny that I'm seeing this, because the 7-Eleven in my neighborhood closed down and all of a sudden a few months after it closed, a Pizza Hut sign was put up; an actual Pizza Hut sign installed. It was also accompanied by a banner that says "opening soon". I was like, is this for real?! A new Pizza Hut opening while it's in complete decline looks like a disaster. Whoever franchised it is going to lose a lot of money.
When I was a kid we would go to Pizza Hut because it was the only place around but now you can’t throw a stone without hitting a pizza place.
Pizza Hut needs to go back to its roots that was a goto location that you either took a date to or planned a family outing to. It used to be a better quality pie and salad bar, rewards for high grades for children, occasionally live music, good music, pleasant surroundings, an inviting environment, and with service with a smile by a pleasant waitress. I tell you that the concept of Pizza Hut being a carryout or a delivery jount violated everything I held in asteme with Pizza Hut! PIZZA HUT NEEDS TO GO BACK TO BEING A DESTINATION THAT CUSTOMERS WOULD MAKE PLANS TO GOTO!!!
I worked there almost 20 years ago. Before smartphones in a wealthy neighborhood. Rich people loved their pizzahut delivery. I bet smartphones ruined it. And fresh what. thats crazy lol
The stuffed crust was a coveted item for me for a long time. Now it’s a super thin greasy ass mess.
When you get it fresh from the oven their stuffed crust pizza is not too awful. The pan pizza is nowhere near as good as it used to be and forget about the rest. It still tastes pretty good in Europe and Canada though.
no great loss. Frozen grocery store pizza is better. They opened several of them over the decades in my home town and every time they went out of business after scraping by for about 3-5 years each. No idea why they kept trying.
It what managers are taught to do to drivers is cash them out when they are on their way back to the store, then dispatch them on their next order and have them do odd jobs while waiting for their order to come up. Pizza Hut has to pay wages for drivers, one is mini wage while in store and one is waiter wages while on a drivlery. It's illegal to do this and when I called them out for doing it as a manager I was fired,but I wasn't fired for that but claimed I left work during my shift and refused to come back. they sent me home because I hurt my arm the day before and said I wasn't able to do my job. told me I needed a doctor's note to come back, which they denied to unemployment. was a long legal battle. this was NPC
The best thing about Pizza Hut (at least in Australia) is when they do $1 Wings Wednesday and have cheap wings. Otherwise, their pizzas are generally poor value compared to other fast food options.
Shut up
pizza hut has been extinct in my area for 4 years, the final pizza hut was a pizza hut express.
I didn't even know that Pizza Hut still exists lmao. The last time I saw one was literally 20 years ago, they shut down countless places since then.
All of the Pizaa Huts in my area are now closed.
Pizza Hut should go under, but the competition is as bad or worse. People will either have to stop getting pizza, change to an equally bad chain or costlier local brand, or just accpet what they are offered. History says that they will continue to buy from Pizza Hut. They might start making their own, but that is also expensive and, more to the point, time consuming.
All of these place can increase the taste and quality of their pizzas by leaving them in the oven a longer! Smh 🤦🏻
Little Caesars is the worst for this. I don't think I've ever had a fully baked pizza from them, and that's when you tell them to bake it well done. Totally agree, soggy crust is the biggest pizza turnoff. Everything else can be pretty bad but the crust at least has to be there.
What a loser
Miss pizza hut
My kid loves Pizza Hut
They destroyed the brand, I felt they were the best in 80s and 90s.
That's sad. Pizza Hut used to be my favorite. Even on a bad day Pizza Hut is better than Papa John's.
Yes.!!! I am 100% done with Pizza Hut! So many things here is so accurate. I can’t deal with how small the pizza has gotten and how ridiculously expensive the price is. INSANE!!! It makes absolutely no sense. I am disgusted by the cost. And yes, I am always having problems with their app. I don’t care about Pizza Hut anymore. Obviously they don’t care about their Customers, so why should we care?!
🙄Good. Happy and glad to see that they will be forced out of the business the industry soon because of their own problem. These corporations are in their own way. Pizza Hut is not worth it
PepsiCo mentality.
What
This is my favorite pizza joint I really hope they recover
Pizza hut has been garbage for years. In the 90s their Caesar salad had real bacon in it it wasn't just lettuce and came with pre-packaged dressing. And they change the recipe of their pizza it's not the same
used to love their pizza but got one abt 3 months ago and it was poor . the cheese was tasteless.
Boycott yum brands. Boycott fast food. Bds. Boycott profiteering.
ONCE THEY TOOK OUT THE BUFFET, I NEVER WENT BACK.
Well I think it's time to make sure I don't breathe again
I have a recipe for pizza that tastes like pizza hut once tasted like. Plus, it's not greasy. YAY for me.
Don't tease. What's the link for the recipe.
Shut up
Bring back the pizzone!
Whoa, im preheating my oven right now to cook my frozen pizza (motor City pizza co.), not because pizza hut is too expensive, its because im cheap. just like my pet deposit, emotional support letter is cheaper.
Oh well. They haven't been good for decades.
Back in the 80's they were the BEST pizza around
I stopped ordering from my local Pizza Hut after they stopped delivering themselves and started using doordash and then started forgetting to deliver my drinks and the door dash guys don't care and won't go back and get them
They had to get on DoorDash as a business to stay competitive. If they didn’t, then we humans would complain that they are not on DoorDash? And we’ll complain they lack innovation?🙄We are never happy with anything. I’m glad they’re going out of business. Their price has gotten ridiculously expensive it makes absolutely no sense! And I can’t get over how small the pizza has gotten. Not worth it.
I will not patronize a chain pizza place. The individually owned mom and pops get my business. The product is 100% better and cheaper.
Lets just make minim wage $40.00 an hour, and make it so you can't get fired of be laid off and they have to give you 40 hours a week. That will fix it.
oh and they can not raise prices.
I’m not really a big fan of franchise pizzas. Give me a local mom and pop all day and I’m a happy camper.
And a taste better.
Ok
In Indonesia same thing happens
I haven't been to Pizza Hut since the 90s, I would rather go to Boston Pizza than Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut can go out of business for all I care
Pizza Hut has sucked since the restaurants closed
Pizza Hut tastes awful these days.
When it comes to fast food or pizza places i don't no why people go to the chains. You can usually go to a private burger place or pizza place and the food is cheaper and usually a lot better.I would never go Mcdonalds or BK Wendy's those places are shit holes.Most of the kids working there don't give a crap about anything and i know in east Texas they can't get a manager to manage these places as it seems they don't care either.I don't no what's going on in this world anymore everything is going out of business no one cares it's just pathetic.....
I never liked Pizza Hut,their pizzas are bland to me.
The pizza just isnt good. I'd actually rather just eat frozen pizza.
Shut up
PLUS ALL THESE THINGS ALWAYS WANTS A FANTASTIC TIP. GOOD LUCK BEING UNEMPLOYED
Pizza hut is SO expensive and the quality is awful. I haven't eaten there in years. There's better pizza elsewhere.
Shut up
Pizza Hut is golden. Maybe not all of the franchises but as a brand name and the fact that nostalgia will never go away. This brand is good. Pizza Hut pizza also has a taste that is strictly their own and people will always crave it if only for nostalgic reasons.
With the cost of their pizza nowadays, I'd rather just go local, which is superior.