Pizza Hut's popularity declining in U.S
 

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Huh, interesting. Can't say I'm too surprised, though, since I've preferred Domino's for a long time.

I've always liked Pizza Hut and always will. Their buffet is awesome.

I like Pizza Hut even though there are cheaper and healthier alternatives.

i have some amazing pizza places around me. buying pizza hut is a waste of money when you can get a GREAT pizza instead of a mediocre one for only 1.5x the cost, sometimes less.

i'm tired of these restaurants that cut every corner they can to lower the cost of their food resulting in not only poor nutrition but poor flavor.

the fastest growing restaurant segment in the US right now is "fast casual" which emphasizes QUALITY ingredients. High quality food at reasonable prices that's also fast. Places like Pizza Hut need to change with tastes of their (potential) clients.

Example? Taco Bell (also part of yum brands, I know) is launching an all new taco chain called U. S. Taco Co. because they realize there is no more growth in taco bell, they have to create better quality food because it's what people want.

http://www.foodbeast.com/2014/08/07/...t-u-s-taco-co/

Weird, I eat Pizza Hut every Thursday.

I'd gladly swap our Pizza Hut for a Taco Bell (I think there's only 3 in the UK right now).

The only good thing about PH is the buffet. Back in my 20s, my housemate and I would go down there once a week. We'd get there at 12, stay 'til 3 and eat twice our own bodyweight in sh*tty pizza, pasta & salad...

I'm kinda shocked that Pizza Hut is the largest chain in the U.S. I would have thought Domino's or Papa John's would have had more locations since their locations tend to be smaller and focus on carry out/delivery compared to PH's are usually bigger spaces for sit down eating.

For a long time it's been Dominoes in my town and the next one over. The only Pizza Hut in the area closed 6-7 years ago. And if not Dominoes, then it's Fox Pizza, Bravos, and two independent pizza shops.

Pizza Hut is too expensive for what you get and it also makes me feel like absolute death after I eat it. If I get a thin crust from Dominos at least I don't feel like a human piece of sh*t afterwards and it's less than half the price.

It kinda makes me nauseous sometimes as well. Pizza Hut's pizzas have too much fat in them.

mcdonalds is the same way... their sales are down for the first time in years because they can no longer keep their food cheap, yet the quality of the food is not improving.

mcdouble was $1 less than a year ago, now it's $1.29 or 1.39 everywhere. all sandwiches have seen a similar increase. Not just the beef either.

prices are always going up but at what point does it stop becoming the value food it was meant to be all this time and nobody wants to pay for it anymore?

I rarely eat McDonald's. And by rarely I mean once every 2-3 years. Last time I had a big mac there it barely had any taste. I felt like I was eating plain bread with grease.

Some of my friends and classmates say Burger King is better and less fatty. I wouldn't know since I've never had it in my whole life.

I generally eat Burger King over McDonalds due to the taste and fries...

Back to the subject, if there's one thing worse than Pizza Hut, it's Domino's... we had it twice and never again here. We tend to eat Papa John's over Pizza Hut as it's far less greasy and tastes better. Pity there is such a price difference in the UK - you can get a medium pizza with two sides from PH for less than the cost of a large pizza at PJ.

Either way, come nowhere close at all to the best pizza I've had when in New York or Chicago...

Meat prices have generally been going up the last 2-3 years, and I expect that's had a pinch on many fast food places' bottom lines trying to provide cheap toppings and the meaty taste that most people want.

I would agree with them. Burger King is much nicer than McDonalds

When I went to London in 2004, there was this pretty good pizza buffet very close to Piccadilly Circus. Don't remember its name but it was good and affordable.

I don't know about other areas but I can definitely understand why it's declining here. Most folks around here usually refer to Pizza Hut as a place to relieve constipation. Any and everyone I know that's been there ends up spending the night in the bathroom.

It sure makes you poop with ease, indeed.

Same. I love their pepperoni Pizza.

I'm surprised Domino's hasn't usurped them yet, figured that'd be a lock. No one in my area has bought Pizza Hut with any regularity since they started offering pasta delivery/carry-out way back when. That seems to be the last "edge" they had on the competition....Then Domino's breadbowl pasta crapped on the parade.

It's the new TMNT promo causing people to lose their appetite. :tlol:

I always figured these brands lose business to the individually owned pizza place take-outs, not that they were all competing against each other.

I mean you can just go to the pizza place down the block and get a pie, how often are you going to eat at a restaurant for pizza?

Not here you can't.

They aren't losing any business HERE, that's for sure. Aside from a couple of local places and Cici's, it's the ONLY major pizza place in town, and the only chain with delivery in our area. They make bank in our town. The town my grandmother lives in doesn't have any other pizza places but Pizza Hut, either, so I'm guessing they make more money in small towns where they can be the only game in town. (Incidentally, I am all too familiar with the price-changing at Mc'D's, among other issues with that company- I just quit my job there to go work at my local Taco Bell instead. I got tired of the store getting jerked around by the new owners of our franchise.)

There are no regular privately owned pizza places in your neighborhood? Aside from the people who live in the sticks in the middle of nowhere, there is usually one of those everywhere, just like 7/11's and McDonalds.

Not everyone lives in a city. We also don't have 7/11's.

Tell me you at least have a f***ing WaWa, bro.

I doubt it. Only the blessed get to have WaWa. :ohwell: Fortunately... there's a bunch of 'em over here.

I feel kinda spoiled now, the nearest Pizza Hut's about a half hour away, but we're in the outskirts of the suburbs and we still have about a dozen pizza places within five minutes of us. One is literally right across the street.

All this bounty... and I don't particularly care for pizza. Wish you were here, dawg.

There's no McDonald's in my town. All we have is DQ, Subway, and Sonic.

At least you have a Sonic, that's some comfort. Where I usually visit in the US, don't tend to be there.

Ha, man I've never even heard of WaWa..

Both it and DQ are all over the place in the part of Texas I live in, so it's no real accomplishment! :lol:

Yeah, Sonic and DQ don't exist on the east coast! I've been to DQ when in Illinois though.

Wow, that's really weird. Sonic always had a "New York" kind of feel to it, to me.

Uh, yes they do. I'm in NJ 10 minutes from a Sonic and 20 from a Dairy Queen. Those aren't the only ones, either.

It's like a NJ 7-11 except the hot dogs won't give you the drizzling sh*ts.. Actually more an East Coast thing in general, but my friends in NY and Florida tell me there's more of them in NJ. I'unno how true that is. I'm two minutes from one, it's great.

And yeah, we got a couple Sonics and DQs. I think I"m the same distance as Cure from them, give or take. I live literally, like, dead center bullseye of NJ. Pretty sure I've been by those exact ones a few times. I only hit either of them once in my life, though, but I go by them all the time going to shows. They're alright.

How about Checkers? Anybody got a Checkers close by?

I have a few Checkers near me, too. You know you're in the hood when you see one. Like Newark.

:lol: Heck yeah. The place I used to work had the furniture moving contract for the Newark school system, we used to pass by those but nobody ever wanted to stop and eat there. That's the driver's call and they'd usually wait until they hit a McDonald's.

Up here, it's called Rally's instead of Checkers. There used to be one in La Porte, IN, but I think that one closed down.

And the only reason I know about Wawa is from the Pretty Little Liars books where they'd mention it.

Kum n Go is the dominant convenient store around here. Yes, that's the real name. Use to be Git n Go way back when, before they were bought out.

I love how someone renamed the entire franchise "Kum n Go" either as a (not so) tongue-in-cheek joke, or they're the most oblivious person in the business world. There's really no middle ground :lol: