I worked for Pizza Hut (in a past life) when I lived in Flagstaff.
We used to order from the local pizzeria and have them meet us two doors up.
Trust me. it was worth it.
No no no…we WANT Pizza Hut (or another pizzeria)!!! We don’t have much in the way of resteraunts in this town ,save the new Sonic and the Subway and a couple we haven’t tried, Schmitty’s and the Red Door, but only because they look scuzzy on the outside. We are not frequent eater-outers but last night CG and I were going next door to play dominoes with our neighbors and were going to bring dinner. Our neighbors provided drinks and dessert.
Pizza Hut isn’t the BEST pizza I know. That title (IMHO) belonged to a place that’s since gone under (at least in our area) called The Snappy Tomato.
We probably WOULD"VE bought Boboli, sauce and stuff if we’d had time,which we didn’t yesterday. This was kind of an impromptu get together.
IDBB
I can see my work has already been done here.
Repeat;
Pizza Slut and most especially Domino’s do not qualify as Pizza. Domino’s is merely melted crayons on cardboard, and Pizza Slut most likely grinds up kittens for its toppings.
You don’t happen to live in Little Elm, do you? When I lived there I was thrilled when the Roadrunner’s opened because before that we couldn’t get pizza delivered at all!
mARC
:eek: That’s exactly where I live,mARC.
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I don’t know what it was like when you lived here but it’s growing and quickly.[/hijack]
Roadrunner’s has some of the WORST pizza I’ve ever eaten. We ordered a couple pies from them the night we moved in (simply because we were too tired from moving/unpacking to cook) and the pizza made me sick to my stomach from one or two slices.
I’d rather eat reconstituted dogpoo on melted irradiated bird crap than eat a pie from Roadrunner’s again.:eek:
IDBB
I remember the days in high school when I would get together with a friend; she lived about 15 miles out of town, right over a hill (we’re talking a tenth of a mile). The first time we tried to order pizza, all of the chain stores told us that they would deliver to that hill, but not an inch farther.
So what did we do? Waited in the parking lot of the church at the top of the hill.
This is a sticky issue. Even the folks I know who live 30 minutes away from me (granted, they are in indiana) are stuck with shit for pizza. I mean they like it and everything, but you can travel all over the place, and do it twice, and never get better pizza than you can get in Chicago. With selections like Geno’s East, Lou Malnattis, Arrenellos, (far south side joint, best stuffed in the city) you can get all the best pizza within 15 minutes of my house, and never, EVER have to eat dominos’ discs of death, or the rabbit turd sausage on pizza hut.
My suggestion, order some decent pizza, or even set ups, from a large city deli or pizza joint and freeze 'em until yer ready to use 'em.
I guess this means if we want pizza, we are back to scouring the frozen food section at the market. Granted…we HAVE found some pizza we considered EXCELLENT at the store (Digiorno’s Deep Dish Chicago style, for one) but still frozen is frozen and it’s only good if it’s fresh IMHO.
I guess until a GOOD pizza place moves ou t here we are stuck with Pizza Slut and Domino’s Discs of Death.
Oh well.
IDBB
Brave, brave child, coming onto a Chicago-based message board and stating that you actually like national-chain pizza. It’s roughly akin to telling them that you like 7-11 conveyor belt death dogs.
Never take pizza or hot dogs lightly around a Chicagoan…
Lemme get this straight. It’s twenty minutes to the pizza place and you wonder why they don’t deliver. Think of it this way: they lose one of their drivers for forty minutes (He or she’s got to get back, after all) for one, single, order. Ain’t going to happen until they build a store maybe ten minutes’ drive from you.
DD
When I delivered for Domino’s we had an area that we could not go beyond to deliver pizza. This was when it was still 30 minutes or less, and the corporation had decided how far we could go and still make that time frame. A couple of sub divisions got started that were outside that area, but we could not deliver there. In order to get them added to our delivery area, the owner had to pay the corporation to come and see if it would be okay.
My sister delivered for Pizza Hut at the same time. They were limited to delivering pizza to houses within the city limits. (Small town, about 10,000 people.) So there were a couple of places that could not get pizza from Pizza Hut, but their neighbors on both sides and across the street could.
This was more than 10 years, and the Domino’s has gone out of business. I don’t know if things have changed with the Pizza Hut deliveries.
I’ll admit I haven’t ordered either Domino’s or Pizza Hut since we just moved and discovered our local heavenly Pizza Italia…free delivery too!
But I don’t think that Domino’s or Pizza Hut is any worse than McDonald’s or Sonic…they’re cheap and fast and everywhere, and sometimes you just don’t have the time/budget/inclination to seek out more gourmet style fare. You know what you’re getting and you’re OK with it, b/c you’ve got a coupon and it’s cheap and you’re hungry. 
Sometimes I want a freshly grilled chicken breast sandwich, on a toasted bun with mozzarella and fresh peppers…and sometimes, you know, I just kind of crave a $0.99 McDonald’s Spicy McChicken.
And if this makes me a lost cause, well, so be it. I ain’t ashamed.
[sub]JinWicked, please do not ever suggest a carrot as a satisfactory replacement for pizza. I believe in some cultures this could result in death by pepperoni. And if you’re wondering what that is, JUST KEEP TALKING.[/sub]
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**:eek: That’s exactly where I live,mARC.
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I don’t know what it was like when you lived here but it’s growing and quickly.[/hijack]
When I lived there in 2000 we were running out of water because the town had grown so much in 1998 and 1999. I think Frisco was having the same problem though. I passed through The Colony to visit my former roommates in Little Elm this past March and it has grown quite a bit. I was really disappointed to see that they’ve never reopened the Broken Spoke. It caught fire before me and my roommate had a chance to get our asses kicked there.
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I forget which movie I heard this in but it echoes my philosophy regarding pizza. “Pizza is like sex. Even when it is bad pizza it is still pretty good.”
Marc
My post came off stronger than it should have. I feel for you: not having pizza delivery has to be horrible. (can we agree that Roadrunners delivers Gastric Distress and not pizza?) If there was a solution, I’d happily offer it. Perhaps a competing chain might be interested in your territory? Google ‘Papa Johns’ or some of the competitors and visit the corp home page. You had a Great Rant, so I know writing their customer service email address would be cake for you. People do read those things; you never know.
In the meantime, impulse pizza is just going to have to be a future goal.
PS- Please Do try the make your own approach. Its actually kinda fun and if you want to involve the neighbors you could call them and say “hey guys…we’re making a pizza next door. Bring your favorite toppings & come on over”. Well, you’d do it in a far less lame way I’m sure. In any event, keep the faith.
So who’s up for some Pizza Hut?
The problem with Pizza Hut is not the sauce or toppings (although neither is worth crossing the room for), but the crust, which at best resembles Wonder Bread.
While Crap-inos Pizza is nothing but cheese & sauce on cardboard, its Sauce-less Hut that makes me burp up acid and oil every time I’ve ever had it. The very last time was a few months back (I hadn’t tried them in years prior and I thought that they might have changed) and I was still disappointed. First, I couldn’t find 1/4 of a cubic inch of sauce on the entire pie. And what we did get almost seemed like it had been drenched in PAM (a non-stick cooking spray).
There are only a handful of Domino’s Pizza outlets in NI, but I have to say they are spectacularly good here. So there. 
And this from someone who has travelled and eaten extensively in Tuscany, where the pizzas roam free and are as fresh as daisies.
Perhaps the inherent quality is down more to the individual who owns the franchise.
(Pizza Hut (here) uses a much too thick bread base to be tasty. I don’t much like them at all.)
We should start a support group. We can’t get ANYTHING delivered where we live.
No cable, no pizza, no nothing.
Of course, there’s only about 20 houses in the valley where I live. I like that part a lot.
Daniel,
Are you talking about Barley’s or Asheville Pizza? I’m not crazy about pizza from either of them, but if you live near Asheville Pizza you also live near Marco’s which, IMO, is the best pizza in town.