/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I only recently realized that pizza hut almost axed all is eat in locations in lieu of fucking take out and delivery. The fucks up with that. Eating at the hut was a damn experience.

>>18714254
No one dines in for pizza. People order pizza when they're hanging with their friends or don't want to go out

goyfeed

just what we needed, more of the worst fast food franchises

>>18714244
Neither of those three chains have been relevant in decades anon.

>>18714611
Neither has your existence.

>>18714265
I eat at pizza joint with a buffet. Mostly for the chicken and salad bar.

>>18714622
Good lord you cringe loser poor fuck.

>>18714627

>>18714244
>If you’ve been dreaming of seeing a Pizza Hut on every corner, 2023 just might be your lucky year.
I doubt they can ever top the number of Subways per capita when that franchise was at its peak number of stores. Subway didn't give a shit how many Subways there already were in an area. They were happy to sell someone else a new subway franchise.

>>18714611
>three of the largest fast food chains haven't been relevant in decades
uh

>>18714627
>not eating at buffets
never gotta make it lad

>>18714244
How about they invest in a cleaner for each KFC first?

There's a pizza hut near me that's in the same plaza as a DP Dough and around the corner from a local pizza place. I've seen people coming out of there with food once but I assume it's being used to launder money.

>>18714265
sup zoomer,
Eating at a Pizza Hut with your high school friends was the shit. You missed out.

>>18714254
>>18714265
Theres an old fashioned Pizza Hut here in chciago that has the whole dining area walled off and sealed so when you walk in all there is is a pickup counter and register and 80% of the building is inaccessible

>>18714890

>>18714254
>he doesn't have a dine-in pizza hut in his city
can't relate. our local dine in pizza hut is a popular gathering spot

>>18714877
SOVL
>>18714911
SOULLESS

>>18714244
Kentucky-Fried Taco Hut

>>18714911
Does it have the salad bar?

>>18714911
Do you live in Indiana or Iowa?

>>18715009
Orange county actually

>>18714933
No sadly. They remodeled the inside a few years back and removed them. Pic related is what it looked like prior

>>18715051
Forgot pic

>>18714265
There's plenty of places where I live that have sit down pizza. Granted, they are all better quality of pizza than Pizza Hut

>>18714244
>Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC
Why don't they fuse those three into a single one restaurant?

>>18714244
I hadn't had KFC in years but got coupons in the mail recently and have had it twice in the past week. The first time was incredibly good with how perfect the chicken was cooked. The original recipe skin was crisped perfectly. Got it again a couple days late and it was pretty mediocre. They got too expensive

>>18714670
Not in the us. I guarantee that the majority of those 100k locations are in 3rd world countries. A good chunk of the kfc locations might be in japan. Anything in the us is probably a fucking shoebox stripmall pizza hut delivery location. They're probably putting up a few tacobells but to be perfectly honest all the stoners I know stopped eating there because they're shit and expensive.

>>18714265
God damn I want zoomer genocide. Pizza Huts with salad bars were peak soul.

>America, 2028
>There's a Pizza Hut for every five square miles
>Pizza Hut is the largest employer in the United States, bigger than Amazon and Wal-Mart combined
>Over 70% of American households consume Pizza Hut for at least one meal per day

>>18715102
Yeah a lot of them don't deliver and don't even support more than one of the delivery apps. If they do, it's always just one app. My local place which I don't tell anyone the name of is the best pizza place you can get. maybe a little more expensive than retail Pizza Hut prices but it's worth it and they have a massive amount of tables for sit down service, at least 40 or 50 big round tables and booths.

>>18714670
>even gas stations do better chicken than KFC
>havent even seen a taco bell in years
>pizza hut struggles to stay afloat when Dominos dominates 90% of the market with $5 large pizzas

Pizza in general is the most overrated subhuman garbage, the only exceptions being the ones without tomato sauce.

sometimes i wonder if advertisers and company CEOs are retarded
do they realize how much better their business would be if they improved the locations they have instead of just propping one up in every streetcorner? who wanted this? who ever went out to eat and went "oh man, that pizza hut is a whole block away! if only there was another one approx 10 meters away from it and closer to my current location!"

you get to the point where you go out for a nice dinner thinking of trying something new and its always "oh yeah theres a mcodndos, theres a kfc" man im in another country i wanna try local food so i go to their main street. what should i eat? "Try pizza hut" niggerfucker i just came from a pizza hut fuck

>>18714244
I wonder if they will be giving automated or semi-automated kitchens a shot to avoid paying all those extra employees.

>>18714265
>No one dines in for pizza.
100% wrong about that one, chump.

>>18714254
It was extremely costly to own/rent/power/maintain massive eat-in restaurant locations while also requiring additional staff to deal with the eat-in restaurant part of the business.
I do miss them though, was always great when you could go with your mates instead of family so you could go absolutely fucking ham on the all you can eat pizza & ice cream.

>>18714877
>>18714890
>>18714911
>>18715146
Reminder that you are no different from a Roman peasant. Stop having nostalgia for bread and circuses.

>>18714254
They're all going that way. Soon, even McDonald's and like restaurants will be drive-thru only, a model that Rallys tried in early 90s only to ultimately fail.

>>18715434
Domino's and pizza hut are both shit
Local and little Caesars are best

>>18714244
Do americans really use fast food brands to define themselves?

>>18714877
Boomers were in charge of Pizza Hut when they decided to shutter their dining rooms so why are you crying about zoomers?

>>18715126
>Taco Fried Pizza
I like where your head is at

How about actually investing into preparing food worth eating? Taco Bell is the most unappealing, low effort food there is, worse than any other fast food chain. You can easily make far superior versions of their dishes at home for practically no effort.

>>18714244
Sounds great, overexpansion plus staffing shortages and declining public interest in overpriced shit food is the quickest way to ensure they have to downsize massively within the next 10 years, I couldn't imagine a better outcome.

>>18716082
You can make better versions of pretty much any fast food at home with little to no effort, at least taco bell is actually relatively fast and not massively overpriced compared to pretty much every other chain these days. You can still get a decent amount of okay food for ~$5 in less than 5 minutes at any halfway decent location, compared to any meal costing $10+ and taking 10-15 minutes minimum in a drive thru only to find your order was made wrong and cooked like shit at pretty much every other place.

Chick fil a is the exception of course because Jesus loves them.

>>18716097
Taco Bell gutted their menu a while back (no more shredded chicken burrito what the fuck) so it's pretty grim.

>>18716105
They brought the potatoes back which is pretty much all I need, put that shit on everything.

>>18715126
>>18716073
I cannot imagine how much money you'd hemorrhage needing to stock ingredients and train employees for those three in one chain.

>>18716105
>>18716107
>>18716097
Wasn't this after they had a new CEO take over who wanted nachos and app exclusive things to be the focus until she got loads of pushback? I don't think it was a stunt, I think she really wanted nachos to be the focus and underestimated how much people like the potatoes. Taco Bell nachos suck and are too salty I don't get it

>>18715918
I hate that faggot Wokal Distancing. Dude's a giant paranoid faggot.

>>18714244
YES, UNITED STATES OF GOYSLOP

>>18714265
I go out to a place that does a pitcher of beer, medium pizza, 20 wings for 50 leaf bucks.

They bring it out on a little stand with a serving thing. It's great. And it's why the place is so popular.

When they gonna start selling pressure fried pizza bites????

>>18716141
He is quite literally a mainstream Republican plant designed to get millennials to donate to the GOP. He is directly funded by several think tanks.

>>18715434
Where on earth do you live that you haven't seen a taco bell in years?

>>18716148
>GOYSLOP
LOOK GUYS I POSTED IT AGAIN

>>18716127
No idea, don't care, I've got my potatoes

>>18716097
>You can make better versions of pretty much any fast food at home with little to no effort
You're watching too many youtube videos. Most fast food has specialized ingredients and methods of preparing their food because they don't want it to be easily replicated. Think of how distinctive the smell of certain chains are. You can't get the certain type of cheese McDonald's uses, or their buns, you can only ever approximate. Taco Bell's only "signature" item is their beef seasoning, which is really the lowest tier of Tex-mex spice mixture, and a few of their sauces, which thankfully have their main ingredients listed in the name (Chipotle, Creamy Jalapeno, etc.) But all their ingredients are just common grocery store items: fresh vegetables, tortillas, refried beans, cheese, potatoes, sour cream, guacamole, etc. Mexican food is incredibly simple to prepare. People don't eat it for its complexity, but for its generous portions, and high quality ingredients. That's why people love small local mexican joints and taco trucks, and why Taco bell fails so miserably.

>taco bell is actually relatively fast and not massively overpriced compared to pretty much every other chain these days

Completely incorrect. Taco Bell is a massive ripoff when you look at the quality of the food. A fucking taco is $1.70 in most locations, god forbid you want a crumb of some tomatoes and some sour cream, that'll run you 2 dollars.
Their XL burrito will run you SEVEN fucking dollars.Att any decent Mexican restaurant, you can get a real taco with a generous REAL steak that was seared on a hot griddle (as opposed to microwaved processed "steak*), or a massive fucking burrito twice the size of a TB burrito, for the same price. And again, the ingredients do not come out of a factory.

Wait times are the same everywhere. Fast food places are all busy during dinnertime and weekends, TB is no different t. doordash driver

It's for these reasons that Taco Bell should perish.

>>18714265
So why do pizza places have seating?

>>18716324
>Most fast food has specialized ingredients and methods of preparing their food because they don't want it to be easily replicated.
I said better versions. If I'm making my own burger at home, my goal isn't to make it taste like a McDonald's burger, it's making it taste good you retarded zoomer.

>>18716385
Yet you still eat fast food because the taste can't be replicated at home. Everyone does, you douchebag.

>>18714877
You got baited everyone who has spent 5 nanoseconds on this site has seen the Pizza Hut nostalgia

>>18715918
ah yes I vividly remember the labels on the top of my N64 cartridges back in 1997

>>18716429
People eat fast food because they want something to eat and don't have convenient access to a kitchen, or because they're lazy fucking slobs who don't know how to cook. Nobody is specifically going to fast food places because of their unique flavor except retarded autistic fags like you.

>>18716429
>Yet you still eat fast food because the taste can't be replicated at home.
This is some weird fucking projection Pablo

>>18716473
>>18716478
cope

nobody cares that you like fast food, there's no need to be insecure about it

>>18714911
You're looks like it's also a full bar. I've never seen that in a chain pizza restaurant aside from shit like California Pizza Kitchen.
Also, anyone remember Round Table Pizza? That was the pizza place we always went to when I was a kid. I loved the arcade machines there. Was like a mini trip to Chuck E Cheese.

>>18714244
Can someone please forward to Yum Brands's CEO(s)? We're supposed to be scaredy scared of the widely reported future 2023 recession so job applicants stop being uppity and he's(s) going way off message.

>>18714244
lol they can't keep the existing locations staffed (I was going to add staffed by competent employees but that hasn't been true for a decade at least), how the fuck are they going to add more? Is there some mass immigration scheduled for next year?

>>18714244
It's not going to happen. 90% of the world has quota in place to stop this pollution from spreading. Nobody wants American food deserts in their country.

>>18716572
>scheduled for next year?
SHHHHHHH

>>18715126
yeah and they can call it taco bell because who the fuck eats at KFC or pizza hut

>>18714622
the last time I went to a buffet, I watched a 6 year old put their face under a sneeze guard and sneeze, some staff went to deal with it, but not before someone else got a spoonful of the food, the tray then went in the back where the door didnt close all the way and they just shifted the food around, and filled it back up, not a new tray, and put it back, and people just ate more.

again, the last time I went to a buffet.

remember, underpaid workers give few fucks, but normies give even less fucks and the two don't combine well.

>>18716118
Throw out all the unnecessary menu items

>>18715153
Just like the UK version of Demolition Man

>>18714611
They're all dying franchises, at least in the US. I know KFC does well in asia but outside of that do any of these have any real international presence? All three are dying in the US. This seems like a merge of desperation rather than one of growth.

>>18714670
They're all dying franchises, at least in the US. I know KFC does well in asia but outside of that do any of these have any real international presence? All three are dying in the US. This seems like a merge of desperation rather than one of growth.

>>18714244
there should be a pan pizza month around sports season every year. why the fuck don't one of these clowns do that?
papa i'm not falling for the hand tossed psyop. it's pan or nothing around here. i'm looking at you little caesar, pizza hut, dominos. you're not fooling anyone.

>>18716572
yes.

>>18716512
They serve beer but no bar. Also, round table is based. There's one in my city and I get it at least once a month

real niggas know godfathers pizza had the most based pizza buffet. the multiple types of dessert pizza alone was goat shit.

>>18715146
>salad bars
tits or gtfo.

>>18718040
wtf is sports season? There are sports for sport loving assholes to annoy based and redpilled people about all year round. There is no peace from sports at any time. I really hate sports. Stop talking to me about sports, normalfags.

>>18719161
>only child with dad that had an office job and was never home hates sports because he didn't get to play when he was a kid, resulting in him playing with shitty toys from animes nobody had ever heard of at the time because we weren't infected with japan yet
pic related is your shirt.

>>18719167
So off the mark on every single point. Sports are for normalfags too incompetent to develop productive hobbies and too devoid of charisma to develop a bond with strangers without a set of score statistics to rattle off.

>>18719177
do you not understand how productive societies are made, anon?
not everybody is an engineer.
gotta have the grease monkey as well.

>>18716331
So you can sit

>>18714244
I hate the Antichrist.>>18714282

>>18715142
Seriously this. According to Yum’s own investor page they only operate 54,000 locations now:

>Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of nearly 54,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill

I’m generally curious what it takes for a publicly traded company to remove a bad CEO and find an actual good one (are they really that rare or is the whole system retarded?).

>>18716324
What a fucking retard

>>18716324
>Completely incorrect. Taco Bell is a massive ripoff when you look at the quality of the food. A fucking taco is $1.70 in most locations, god forbid you want a crumb of some tomatoes and some sour cream, that'll run you 2 dollars.
Their XL burrito will run you SEVEN fucking dollars.Att any decent Mexican restaurant, you can get a real taco with a generous REAL steak that was seared on a hot griddle (as opposed to microwaved processed "steak*), or a massive fucking burrito twice the size of a TB burrito, for the same price. And again, the ingredients do not come out of a factory.
I just checked their value menu. Not a single $1 meat item.