• pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m from NJ and a few months back I went to our local Pizza Hut with my mom since it had been years since we’d been there. Its on the corner of two major roads (one is literally called Main Road) and in a shopping center.

    We pulled up and there was one car there and the entire place looked dark, we weren’t sure that they were even open, even though it was like 4:30 PM. We walked in and it was a ghost town, an employee finally appeared and we asked if they were open and she said they were. For like the 30-45 minutes that we were there we were the only people there, even for pick-up.

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      10 months ago

      Speaking of which, when I used to live around NY/NJ, every single random pizzarias or Italian places in general I’ve been there has been absolutely amazingly good. Maybe there is too much competition for Pizza Hut there.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah in my smallish town we have a mom and pop pizza place, domino’s, pizza hut, straw hat, round table, mountain mikes, and little Caesars all on the same road. If we want good pizza we go to the mom and pop shop or straw hat. If we want cheap pizza we go to little Caesars. All the others in between we just don’t even consider

        We almost ordered pizza hut because it stayed open the latest, I even had the pizza and wings in the cart about to checkout but the total was just a bit too high for not a great selection of toppings and we ended up just getting taco bell instead

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, there’s at least 5 other pizza places within a few miles. IDK why my mom always chooses Pizza Hut over them 🤷‍♂️

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      10 months ago

      So i work in the industry

      Pizza huts are barely open with even as low as 2 employees at a time. Little ceasars had 10 workers on the holidays

      Every franchise could vary but not really lol the original owners of all those pizza huts are no longer careee

      /uuuhmmm burp

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        10 months ago

        When I was home for Christmas my mom said that she went there with my dad and their friends a few weeks ago. There was one person working and they said they couldn’t wait on my parents and their friends because they had to run the entire place themselves (make the pizzas, handle the drive through, watch the cash register, etc…). For my 4 year old niece’s birthday she got Pizza Hut again. Apparently now when you call to place an order it goes to a call center, so she had to fight with that for a few minutes and then finally decided on driving there to place the order.