# WTF Pizza Hut???? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374 "2011-07-09T01:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/41 "2011-07-09T19:49:24Z")
I’m glad I live where, besides the chains like Pizza Hut, we still have some individual pizza places, or a local chain with just two or three locations. [http://www.glorydayspizza.com/](http://www.glorydayspizza.com/) This is where I like to get my pizza. They even do anchovy without going “Ewwwww!” But they need to update the website because there’s a fourth location now. It’s way to close to me, and I’m trying to lose weight, but I may order now because it’s hard to think about pizza and not get some. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/42 "2011-07-09T19:53:46Z")
Pizza Hut used to be a respectable dinning place. The pizza used to be pretty dam good and cheaper than the Mom Pop pizzerias of same quality. How do you screw something up soo bad, that even Dominos Pizza is a good alternative.(the habernero dipping sauce rocks) Burger king had the best double cheese burger…Hardees had the best Mushroom Swiss Burger… All pretty much worthless crap now. :mad: I’ll make my own dam food TY. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/43 "2011-07-09T19:57:03Z")
The weird obligatory “give your name and phone number or we cant process you” was already there the last (and only time) I’ve used Pizza Hutt, and that was something lke ten or fifteen years ago. I never understood it and it stood as extremely bureaucratic. What I dont understand is why I would choose to go to a pizza chain that’s gonna charge me double what any good small pizza joint in my neigborhood would charge. Added to the crime is that none of the international chains can cook a pizza (even when they dont have any other customers) in less than twenty minutes. Most of my local joints can cook one in less than ten minutes, if not five minutes. And all pizzas coming from chains taste pretty horrible. Domino has completely cleaned Pizza Hutt’s clock here (which is weird as they were a very late starter to the game) but they taste as shitty. ---
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/44 "2011-07-09T20:34:47Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > What’s the matter with you? Just give the minimum waged employee behind the counter a fake name and number, pay, and leave with your pizza. That would be illegal to give a false name and false telephone number. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/45 "2011-07-09T20:52:59Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > The local Pizza Hut won’t serve me because I wouldn’t give them my name or phone number when I ordered a take-out pizza at their counter on several occasions. Now the manager sees me coming and refuses to talk to me or take an order. Complaints to the head office fall on deaf ears because you can’t contact the head office except thru an automated service, which won’t return my call. > > Too bad. I sure buy a lot of pizzas down the street where they are cheaper and better. What’s the matter with this outfit? Hope you knock on their window and show them the other pizza you just bought… > [@beartato](#): > > What’s the matter with you? Just give the minimum waged employee behind the counter a fake name and number, pay, and leave with your pizza. > [@Susanann](#): > > That would be illegal to give a false name and false telephone number. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/46 "2011-07-09T21:18:25Z")
We could always protest. Everyone order take out, and decline to give a number. Then walk out when they don’t serve. Kind of a continent-wide flash-mob with a purpose! ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/47 "2011-07-09T21:32:03Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Everyone order take out, and decline to give a number. > Then walk out when they don’t serve. Humming a bar of _Alice’s Restaurant_, of course. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/48 "2011-07-09T21:33:37Z")
Maybe it depends on where you live, but here in the Philly suburbs there are dozens of locally owned pizzerias within delivery distance of me that are better than any of the chains and will actually answer the phone themselves and treat you like a human being. They don’t get their business from a massive television advertising budget so they depend on happy repeat customers and local word of mouth; and they make _good_ pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/49 "2011-07-09T22:05:31Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Humming a bar of _Alice’s Restaurant_, of course. Of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/50 "2011-07-09T23:33:06Z")
Why wouldn’t you be able to pay with visa? ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/51 "2011-07-10T00:55:22Z")
I must live on a different planet. The local Pizza Hut’s phone number is in the book. I call it, and the local store answers. Sure they ask for a call-back number if I call my order in, but not if I stop by in person and place my order at the counter. I’ve never tried to pay with Visa, but they always take my personal check with no hassle or ID. Sure, there’s better pizza available if I want to go out, but Pizza Hut’s the only delivery option in my neighborhood. Of any kind of food, now that I think about it. And sometimes, that’s all I want. No hassle food that I can order in my pajamas. On the other hand, I tried to order Pizza Hut from their website once. It was a miserable experience, on a par with those described above. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/52 "2011-07-10T02:09:31Z")
What made me abandon Pizza Hut was their inclusion of a delivery fee. I avoided Papa Johns forever because they wanted to charge me $2 to deliver the thing and Pizza Hut didn’t. Now I think the Pizza Hut delivery fee is up to $2.65. Fee, tax, and tip and your $8 coupon costs you $14.50. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/53 "2011-07-10T03:22:04Z")
Pizza Hut isn’t my favorite, but sometime I get a craving for it, like 2 times a year. One time in the last year or so, I went to the website to look up info for my local one. I can’t remember if I was looking for address/phone number or just a general “gee, are there any closer?” The website was a huge, huge, huge pain. I ended up writing to them on their “contact us” form. Most locators will show you a map or you click on your state. PH wanted your address. Look, I don’t need to give you my address. Why can’t I just put in my ZIP code and you show me the freaking restaurants in my area and let me click which one I want then? I put in fake addresses (123 Main Street) and it’d boot me out for being fake. I wasn’t trying to place an order. I just wanted to find out something that I probably could have found in ye olde yellow page ads. It was overly complicated and it drove me away for a long time. I am hardly alone in not having a lot of disposable income these days. If you’re going to make me go through the wringer just to find out your phone number, I’m going to spend my $15 somewhere else. How many people can you afford to drive away? Argh To be fair, the times I went before (and since) to that same location, my food was done quickly and correctly and tasted fine. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/54 "2011-07-10T03:25:43Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > That would be illegal to give a false name and false telephone number. To the Pizza Hut? Are you high? Joe ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/55 "2011-07-10T03:28:02Z")
I’ve got a Pizza Hut three blocks away. They’ve been good enough to give me their phone number; so I can call, and head out to pick up my pizza. No sense letting them deliver; I can walk to pick it up faster than they can deliver by car. Major cards, debit (Interac), and cash accepted. There are other places with delivery options in town (Papa John’s, Pizza 73, Domino’s); but for me, it’s often faster to call Pizza Hut and pick up. Unfortunately, our little city has very few family-run, standalone pizza places. For most of us, it’s the big chains or nothing. I miss the little family-run places I knew in Toronto that had the _best_ pizza–any Torontonians ever go to Bitondo’s? (Is it even still there?) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/56 "2011-07-10T03:44:14Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > Hope you knock on their window and show them the other pizza you just bought… Why, of course. Then I took it home and cooked it. Papa Murphy’s take-n-bake pizza is so much better than hot pizza that cools before you get it home. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/57 "2011-07-10T04:45:20Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > … or my favorite, Phil N. DeBlanc heh. Depends on whether I want to make their lives difficult or not. If they’ve ticked me off, I’ll give the name “Throckmorton Grunthummer Wingergonger.” “Uh…how do you spell that?” “Exactly like it sounds.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/58 "2011-07-10T05:15:27Z")
Pizza Hut has always had the worst user interface imaginable. Whoever designed it must be secretly employed by Dominos. Unfortunately, I jones for a Pizza Hut thin crust pepperoni pizza every 6 months or so, and have to deal with their _fucking moronic website_! Just give me my pizza and fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/59 "2011-07-11T16:10:16Z")
> [@SuperNelson](#): > > I must live on a different planet. The local Pizza Hut’s phone number is in the book. I call it, and the local store answers. Sure they ask for a call-back number if I call my order in, but not if I stop by in person and place my order at the counter. I’m on the same planet. Just ordered a PH pizza last week when the local Dominoes wasn’t answering their phone. Called them directly at the same number they’ve always had. Thin crust with pepperoni and mushrooms, I liked it but the GF didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374/60 "2011-07-13T01:51:57Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > That would be illegal to give a false name and false telephone number. What? How in the world would it be illegal? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pizza-hut/588374.md?page=4)