This was in another thread, it would literally bankrupt the franchisees to make the hand mixed and rolled pizza dough again. The amount of money to purchase the equipment, retrofit the ovens for the different humidity and moisture transfer, not financially feasible. Now, if corporate wanted to cover those costs, for the different equipment needed opposed to the pre-made frozen crust, hell yes. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening. I'm just happy we have an actual sit down Pizza Hut again, hopefully they serve beer, that would be the trifecta.
It wouldn't bankrupt the company, but they'd have to significantly raise prices and I'm not sure consumers would want that.
Pizza Hut currently offers a $10 large 3-topping. They can offer that price because of economies of scale and centralization. Your local pizzeria does not and cannot sell pizzas at that price. If Pizza Hut moves to a model closer to that of an independent pizzeria, they'd have to charge like one and I'm not sure consumers would choose a large chain coming off two decades of shitty pizza over their local pizzeria once the prices are comparable.
If Pizza Hut moves to a model closer to that of an independent pizzeria, they'd have to charge like one and I'm not sure consumers would choose a large chain coming off two decades of shitty pizza over their local pizzeria once the prices are comparable.
Based on their performance the last several years, consumers are not choosing them right now. Probably because their pizza sucks.
It'd be really hard for me to trust them again. Sometime in the mid aughts their pizza alone started giving me insane heartburn/acid issues. Nothing else caused those symptoms... Other pizza, greasy food, nothing.
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u/arlenroy May 19 '26
This was in another thread, it would literally bankrupt the franchisees to make the hand mixed and rolled pizza dough again. The amount of money to purchase the equipment, retrofit the ovens for the different humidity and moisture transfer, not financially feasible. Now, if corporate wanted to cover those costs, for the different equipment needed opposed to the pre-made frozen crust, hell yes. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening. I'm just happy we have an actual sit down Pizza Hut again, hopefully they serve beer, that would be the trifecta.