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They should sell it, because whoever buys it can't possibly run it any worse.

When I was growing up, there was a Pizza Hut near us. We lived kind of out of the way so it was the only real restaurant for some distance. They didn't deliver. Would have made millions, but for whatever reason they didn't. That location closed.

Years later, I lived near one. I ordered from time to time, watched the quality go downhill as the ingredients got cheaper. Last time I went there I was ordering $100+ worth of food for a party, I asked the guy for a couple extra sauce cups. He said management had a new policy he couldn't give out extra sauces without charging $0.10 each. This is while I was carrying an order so big I was worried the stack of boxes would fall over in my hands. That was the last time I went to that location. It closed a few months later.

In their heyday, their food was really good. They had a good recipe, but they cheaped out and put idiots in charge of their stores.

Whoever buys it should get back to their roots. I think there's a place for it. But the current management obviously has no idea how to make it work.

As a New Yorker literally everyone here outpizzas the hut

The veil of Pizza Hut's propaganda has finally fallen, Taco Bell is the true winner of the Franchise Wars.

...does this mean fucking Dominos ended up being the best chain pizza? I'm sure there are some regional chains that are better, but it's way better than caesars, papa johns, sbarro, etc. As I recall they made a point like ~15 years ago to improve their pizza from their 90s trash image, and I guess it worked.

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.

Bring back the 80's Pizza Hut experience, you cowards.

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.

You can almost smell the Private Equity musk.

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.

Back in the 80s pizza hut charged premium prices, but tasted fantastic with actual quality ingredients. Tasted even better if you ate it at the restaurant right out of the cast iron.

Then they lost some sales to cheaper on the go places that popped up like Dominoes and little Caesars. Instead of sticking to the higher end and maintaining for customers that we're willing to spend more on taste, they opted to go down in the mud and compete on cheap, cheaping out on ingredients and cook\prep time. They couldn't do that as well as the other guys, who'd been doing it from the start. So they completely tanked themselves. Dumb corpo decisions. You can't make a shit product to compete with other shit product when all your brick and mortar is 4x the size and not designed to sling out pizza as fast. Instead of just excepting that they weren't going to keep all of the customer base wanting pizza, they shot themselves in both legs.

Are you telling me that a $30 pizza is not selling well?

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.

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.

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

I worked at a pizza hut as a kid. I honestly didn't know they were still in operation today.

Put more than five olives on my pizza and maybe I'd go more often. All the major chains have this problem, though.

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!

It existed for the buffet, with that gone there was no niche.