The niche with Pizza Hut was the dining experience. The red cups, the hut roofs, the whole thing… They gutted all that and kept the subpar pizza. You can get carry out/delivery pizza of same quality from everywhere else. They took away the thing that made them different in the marketplace.
It’s a little over one percent of their total stores. Last year they closed 1451 stores, so this isn’t some sort of new record. The important bit is the potential of Yum selling off the brand, which I think is honestly a good move. Pizza Hut is falling WAAAY behind Dominos and needs an injection of fresh energy. A new owner might bring that.
Little Caesars makes better Pizza than the Hut. Just let it die.
Honestly couldn’t tell you the last time I had Pizza Hut. Probably over 20 years ago? Just awful greasy pizza.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but as someone who has had both within the last 3 months, I’d say Pizza Hut edges out Little Caesars by a fairly large margin.
One of my favorite pizzas is the Papa Murphy’s cowboy pizza.
Not to mention you can get a stuffed crust pizza from Little Ceasars for 1/2 the price as Pizza Hut
They just need to copy the Pizza Hut experience in China.
It’s a black tie affair, with a maître d’ and everything.
Bring back the 80’s Pizza Hut experience, you cowards.
Pizza hut buffet!
They just closed the only location with a dining room in my area.
that’s mostly just the price, init?
You can almost smell the Private Equity musk.
you can certainly taste it in their enshittified product
I haven’t had Pizza Hut since I was a kid. It’s not great pizza, but you used to be able to sign up for the summer book club at the library and get prizes for reading so many books. I was a pathetic kid with no friends who read nonstop to cope with the loneliness and boredom and one of the prizes was free coupons for personal pan pizzas. We were the kind of barely middle class that thought burger king was a huge treat we only got once a year, so earning a pan pizza was the absolute shit as an elementary school aged kid. My mom always took me there for my end of summer reward lunch and it always felt incredibly special.
Honestly I’d get some Pizza Hut out of nostalgia if they didn’t put all of their delivery through DoorDash. That middleman makes it cost more than actually good pizza.
The Pizza Hut in my town closed 15 years ago. It’s now a Chinese restaurant, and the owners never changed how it looks on the outside.
Same thing in my home town, except it is more of a country cafe. I miss r/formerpizzahuts
Not in the US, but my wife and I had it last week and we both agreed that it was terrible and our stomach hurt that night/next day.
I worked at a pizza hut as a kid. I honestly didn’t know they were still in operation today.
Back right after covid we did a pizza friday for a whole summer. They had deals for things every week and especially crust seasonings. That lasted about a year. The next summer the deals were massively cut back and the following summer the seasonings were gone. Pretty much stopped since then.
It existed for the buffet, with that gone there was no niche.
Honestly good. Bought some recently on a whim. I’ve had better frozen pizzas. I was in a genuine state of despair when I took the first bite and realized I made a terrible mistake ordering it
Put more than five olives on my pizza and maybe I’d go more often. All the major chains have this problem, though.
I just make pizza at home at this point. All the pizza chains serve overpriced garbage and the local shops are so expensive.
This is actually a big reason Papa John’s literally owns their own olive orchards. So they can put more olives on their pizzas with out breaking the bank
Good olives are expensive as fuck
As a New Yorker literally everyone here outpizzas the hut
Growing up, Pizza Hut was the only pizza place in my town. It was your classic building with the red hut roof. I hate to hear the company is doing so poorly, but poor management and business decisions stained the brand. It’s a shadow of its former self. It could be turned around if they bring back their classic pan pizza recipe and leaned more in on nostalgia. Most Pizza Huts nowadays are shoved into strip malls or have had their hut roofs mutilated and I’m like, “Why!?” It’s literally in your name and logo!
Because the the rich people who would pay for quality pizza don’t live there. they live in cities and fancy suburbs.
and poor people that live in those places are not going to pay $50 for a fresh made pizza with authentic ingredients. they are used to paying $10 for artificial chemical pizza products that pizza hut now offers.
