Mom and Pop shops for me.

Pizza franchises  suck, there product is comparable to frozen pizza.

If you are getting bad pizzas from your local hut its one of two things. Shitty management or you just have different tastes and dont like it no matter what.

I don't mind that they are vanishing.. even though they are bit of an icon.

Usually the place is one wash short of a dirty, ill kept, torn up toilet of a restaurant.  The pizza is over-greasy and the help is surly at best.

Maybe Pizza Hut is a better restaurant up North but down here in the South -it sucks-.

I do not give the ones around here my business, they're are slobs and run filthy shops.

Beside the fact that they regard what they prepare as Haram, if they don"t respect it when serving it, I am not eating it.

The franchise model they have adopted has hurt them alot. When I was asked to leave they were trying to get to less than 5% corporate ownership. Most of the franchisees I met only cared about the bottom line quality be damned. I like working there at first and last two years I was ready to burn the fucker down.
 

Appears I was right pizzahut #1most unhealthy fastfood
http://m.christianpost.com/news/the-most-unhealthy-meals-served-by-americas-fast-food-chains--51368/

I remember the Shakeys in the real California back in the early 60's.  It was a treat to go there.

When you are promised this:



and are lucky to actually get 2 pieces of pepperoni per slice, it kind of makes the customer base shop elsewhere.

Should have 60 slices for a large.

 

I agree.  A well run Pizza Hut is yummy.





A bad one is....well...BAD.





Nothing like a properly cooked, pan crust pizza.





I must say however, my current favorite pizza is the take and bake, "Papa Murphy's"....I get the five meat double stuffed....25 minutes at 375 on the paper tray and then slap it on a stone for EXACTLY ( not kidding, here ) ONE MINUTE...then take it out.





Jesus....the only thing that pizza is missing is a defibrillator.





 

None around here any more but......back in the day on the buffet they had pizza, sub sandwiches and fried chicken. First place I had ever seen that served dark beer on tap. They played Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy B&W shorts on a movie screen.

Four of us used to go in one day a week after biology lab and clean up the buffet and they would make us one fresh pizza.  Good times.

Was this around 08?

Nope still two of them in my home town open and making some of the most nasty poor quality food there is.  Luckily they have Domino's which is a lot better.

This. The last one like that closed here like 15+ years ago... It's all delivery only now. Even the popular local chain that used to be right down the street when I was a kid is down to only a handful of locations, and none near me.



 

Don't know; don't care.

Sounds right 08 or 09, there was a big convention here in Phoenix. I was being groomed to be a district coach, and it all went to shit shortly after that.

 

Yep thats when we got bought out too.
thankfully our owner was a corp high up and started his own franchise. Kept as much as he could the same as corp. What did have to change ended up better.

Yup I get it with light sauce, chicken, and double bacon... It's not that bad for chain mass produced on a conveyer belt.

The real question, Pizza Slut or Cici's?

There are quite a few of those mobile kitchens across the country.

when katrina hit we mobilized them and gave out free pizza for a couple weeks.

The nasty silicone cheese killed Pizza Hut for me. That stuff would make a goose pack extra underwear. Plus they discontinued the BBQ pizza.

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The two closest to me are gone, and I would have to pass 6~8 other pizza  joints to get to an actual Pizza Hut.

And while they are not my 'favorite' brand I do occasionally want their deep fried pizza crust pizza.

There are 5 Pizza Hut sit downs within a 10 mile radius but the closest one to me(about 2 miles away is a take out only one.

I couldn't tell you where the nearest Pizza Slut is.

Orly?

Wife worked at Dominos years ago...so we go there.  That combined with the Little Ceasers $5 Hot-n-Readys nearby...just no need to go to Pizza Hut.

There's not even a Domino's or Pizza Hut around here.  There's one Round Table Pizza and a few Americanized pizza and beer type sports bars.

But I've noticed plenty of Burger King shuttered.

Well, we've seen the documentary on this.

Little wonder.   I can't speak for all Pizza Huts, but the one near my home changed their tomato paste/sauce that they put on their pizzas a couple of years back from one that was good to one that tasted bitter and acidic.   After that change, I stopped going in there.   So did many others as their parking lot went from mostly full  most days to empty every day.  

This was a stupid assed move on the part of Pizza Hut.   To save a few pennies on tomato paste/sauce, they shot themselves in the foot big time.  As always, the market place penalizes stupidity.

Oh, there's more to the story.   After I stopped going to Pizza Hut, I found a small local place that made great pizza for a very cheap price.  I started buying their pizzas.  BUT.........I'll be damned if the last one I bought didn't have that same bitter, acidic tomato paste/sauce on it that Pizza Hut went to.   Shit........

We have 8 Pizza Huts, 3 dominoes, 3 little ceasars, 2 Pizza Patrons, 2 cicis, 1 papa johns and 1 sbarro. All the PH have been around a long time. Our population is about 230,000. Mom and pop pizza places do not last long here. Kids hate PJs and pizza patron. All PH are sit down and are always busy, especially nights the school kids have sports games.

The local one moved from its old restaurant location into an old Domino's that went out of business a couple of years ago. It's co-branded with Wingstreet and only does takeout/delivery now.

ETA: The food's just as good as it was at the other place, maybe even a little bit better.

Most have disappeared a long time ago in my part of the country. The few that are left, are mainly delivery/take out only.

Yes, good riddenze.

YUM sold off Long John Silver's and A&W a year or two ago.

There's one still around, I have no idea how. Last time I ordered carryout, like 3 years ago, I was late picking it up, and it still wasn't made when I got there, which took another 25 minutes.

Roundtable.

For a $5 pizza, I can't bitch....bought two to feed a fence building crew (both of us ) and it got the job done, with plenty of leftovers. It's OK for a cheep gut bomb.

Mtn. Mikes, Round Table and Straw Hat were fucking great in Cali.



Great
pizza and you could sit and drink beer while watching the game and/or
kicking your buddies asses in the latest version of SFII.

 

The fake butter in the crust of a pan pizza is to die for

Pizza Hut gives me diarrhea and it doesn't even taste good.

Double negative.


(The pizza doesn't taste good.  I've never tasted my diarrhea.)

Tape breaking down? I've corrected some legacy footage from tapes so ancient it felt like it was some Dharma project.

We have a sit down one they built 2 or so years ago. We go for the buffet every couple of months. And they deliver too. Small town maybe little more than a thousand people but with a larger number of people in the surrounding area.

The local shit down one closed and moved into a strip mall 4 miles away, take out/delivery only.

Is that why you aren't dating anymore?

Hard to say.

In this region, there is one Pizza Hut. I've used it twice, maybe three times in all the years I've been here, then only for carry out. The carry out pizza is okay, but I'll get to that point in a moment.

Why not eat there? Numerous reasons I suppose. First of all, for what I use to remember was the place, it seems like a cubicle now. I don't think they are building them any smaller but it seems like a very tight eating atmosphere. In any case, its location and that parking lot is not the easiest place to leave from. Other little reasons are that I often dine alone, in front of a TV, I like to have alcohol with my meals, and so forth.

In the 90's, we had a Mr. Gatti's here and that was great place to go to on dates because the buffet was cheap and it was a great place to scharf. Sure, lots of families were there with their kids, it was noisy, but there were enough rooms that they didn't interfere with the eating, the dating.

And then one day in this century, I looked, and it was gone. First the business was gone and then the building was gone, literally off the face of the planet. As to what happened, why, who knows, but in a college town, pizza is big business and I suppose, they lost the war.

AS THINGS GO, I am trying to get away from pick up, delivery pizza (bummer for the drivers, I am a terrific tipper). Numerous reasons to include the 3X mark up in price, move away from comfort food eating, my desire to cook, in the time of ordering and waiting I could make a great meal from my own supplies, my pizzas are "better", and learning to live out in the country.

About how my pizzas are better. I could order a great big pizza from the Papa, eat way too much, pay too much (sorry about that driver) or I could make one of my very thin pizzas from scratch and be "full" from that (because, after all, when you have to knead your own dough, you aren't so quick to make another pizza just because you still have an appetite).

Back to the places and their buffets for a moment. When one considers what the population is like these days, there are a lot of buffet places that just aren't that appetizing anymore. Jason's Deli and some Chinese places are, but others, we-ll.....................................
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("What are the four food groups?"--Hunter
"Take out, delivery, frozen, and canned!"--McCall, (w,stte), Hunter, "Hot Pursuit")

Mountain Mikes is the best.

I gave up on Domino's in the 80's, at TAMU.

Why?

They didn't serve anchovies.

Now back then, when my tummy was more cast iron, when I could have extra garlic, jalapeno, anchovy, spicy Italian sausage pizza, that was an absolute requirement. These days, well if I ate that, I would love the taste but regret the move 30 minutes later, anchovies are still an important part of my cooking.

I can understand that a lot of people don't like anchovies..........................BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF US WHO DO!

And if you are going to go absolutely with the other group, well, then, you can do it without my dollar.

EDIT: And now that we have done all this talk about pizza, when I get home, in about 4-5 hours, I think I will make myself some!
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(As Kincaid is going out the door of his bachelor apartment to get pizza to keep his stewardess gf entertain, "Oh, and Reuben? .....no anchovies.....,"--Bonnie, (w,stte), "The Partridge Family")

We still have one (it's been here forever) but they don't have a lunch buffet

Pizza hut quit carrying anchovies for the safety of their employees. To many morans were cutting themselves on the cans.

 

Still a few around my area.  Heck one of them even has an evening pizza buffet on Tues and Wed.