/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5109211]

Pizza Hut is testing pizza by the slice.

each slice will cost between $2 to $3 and take about three to four minutes to heat.

the slices will be cut from an 18" pie (compared to a standard Pizza Hut large at 14")

what do you thin?

[Anonymous No.5109216]

>>5109211

[Anonymous No.5109214]

I don't understand buying pizza by the slice, why not just get a small pizza...?

[Anonymous No.5109217]

>>5109214

You can't walk down an NYC street eating a small pizza

[Anonymous No.5109218]

>>5109211
>$3 for a slice of pepperoni pizza
or
>$5-6 for a whole medium from little caesers or domino's

Seems much too high

[Anonymous No.5109220]

>>5109214
because thats still more pizza than you want.

although generally when you want a slice you get a slice, not a 3-4 minute wait

[Anonymous No.5109221]

>>5109218

That one (usually very large) slice will be of a higher quality, generally, than domino's or little fuckin caesars

[Anonymous No.5109223]

Would be fine if only Pizza Hut made decent pizza.

[Anonymous No.5109228]

>>5109217

Better topping:crust ratio.

[Anonymous No.5109234]

>>5109228
Was supposed to be in reply to
>>5109214

[Anonymous No.5109240]

I remember walking into a Papa John's for the first time. Wanted to get some lunch. Was completely flabbergasted when they told me they only sell whole pizzas... even to customers dining in.

What kind of idiotic business practice is that? How did whoever came up with that not get fired and forever disgraced?

How stupid do you have to be to not realize the enormous percent share of clients you're blatantly losing by not selling pizza by the slice IN THE BLOODY RESTAURANT?

It just boggles the mind. What kind of alcohol or heroin binge were the creators of this business model on when they decided
>Hey, let's only allow large groups of people and morbidly obese landwhales to eat in at our restaurants by selling only whole pizzas!

[Anonymous No.5109246]

Will never dethrone Costco as the widespread king of pizza by the slice.

[Anonymous No.5109251]

>>5109221
>pizza hut
>high quality

LOL. I guess if you want more than usual grease it's high quality. Their pan pizza is the only thing that's good there and it's a grease bomb

[Anonymous No.5109255]

>>5109240
and guess what they are successful without it, whos the moron now?

[Anonymous No.5109259]

>>5109240
Who the hell eats in at a Papa John's?

If it's not the lunch buffet, there's no reason to be eating in a pizza chain.

Shit, most places don't have seating.

[Anonymous No.5109260]

>>5109240

Ever heard of an 8" pizza? Oh wait, it's America!

[Anonymous No.5109263]

>>5109255
>blatantly losing income for years upon years
>successful

[Anonymous No.5109264]

I would probably still just go to local pizza places. But I'm probably not the target audience

[Anonymous No.5109265]

>>5109251

wasn't talking about pizza hut there you dork. was talking about the sorts of places that sell slices, not pizza hut, more like hole-in-the-wall NYC places

[Anonymous No.5109273]

>>5109265
Oh see, because I thought this was a thread about Pizza Hut wanting to sell individual slices.

Obviously local joints make far better pizzas

[Anonymous No.5109276]

>>5109263
ya doing real bad


An analyst has upgraded his rating on Papa John's International Inc. stock from hold to buy.

Christopher O’Cull of KeyBanc Capital Markets gave the Louisville-based pizza chain a price target of $53, according to the Associated Press.

O’Cull predicted in a client’s note that Papa John’s franchisees would quickly open more restaurants internationally after seeing a 7 percent to 8 percent increase in sales at same store sales overseas. (Click here to read more about the company's international growth plans.)

The analyst also projected sales increases at U.S. restaurants this year and that Papa John’s will benefit from declining wheat and cheese prices.

Papa John's (NASDAQ: PZZA) stock closed Friday at $46.08, and its 52-week trading range is $24.94 to $46.90 per share.

[Anonymous No.5109277]

>Pizza Hut
>by the slice

Chain pizza is disgusting, cheap crap.
Why would you EVER buy that by the slice?

[Anonymous No.5109281]

>>5109277
I enjoy Dominos, cant beat it for like 7 bucks for a large

[Anonymous No.5109284]

Why?

They already have personal pan pizzas at every store?

[Anonymous No.5109285]

Something would feel wrong about buying pizza by the slice at a restaurant with a large dining area with chairs and tables.

[Anonymous No.5109288]

>>5109259
>Who the hell eats in at a Papa John's?

Hahaha I did that once with a few friends. We all clustered around one of those small tables and sat there for like an hour and a half, like you would at a real pizzeria, with our pizza and cheesesticks and chicken poppers and soda, treating this depressing fluorescent-lit little hole like it was a real restaurant. The guys behind the counter were giving us dirty looks but fuck em, there was seating and we were gonna use it.

Overall it was a fun experience. Got to do a lot of people-watching too! You wouldn't believe how many hot girls come in to pick up pizza.

[Anonymous No.5109293]

>>5109284
This. personal pans are like $5.

I guess they are trying to break into the "NYC-style" market

[Anonymous No.5109295]

>>5109276
Because earning MORE money and providing MORE customers with access to your product makes you LESS successful?

You're trying to cite facts against an irrefutable axiom: more money and more product availability = more success.

[Anonymous No.5109294]

>>5109284
Why didn't you just buy one big pizza and one good laptop?

[Anonymous No.5109298]

>>5109211
>each slice will cost between $2 to $3

Will never manage to compete with Costco.

[Anonymous No.5109300]

>>5109295
sarcasm, they arent doing bad. I was replying to the faggot who said they were

[Anonymous No.5109301]

>>5109295
that's what he's saying you moron. The first line is sarcasm

[Anonymous No.5109304]

>>5109298
a lot of people dont even have a Costco near them

[Anonymous No.5109312]

>>5109288

Some Papa John's locations ARE restaurants. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.5109314]

>>5109312
that looks cozy as fuck

[Anonymous No.5109317]

>>5109312
This Papa John's could hold more than seven of my hometown's Papa John'ses in it.

[Anonymous No.5109352]

This would be cool if it was a chain I cared about. I was raised in a family where Pizza Hut was just the place that you called if you wanted pizza, and other options weren't even considered. The only other chain pizza I ever had as a kid was fucking Happy Joe's at school, which was awful and actually worse than Pizza Hut, solidifying my ignorant opinion that Pizza Hut was actually good. It wasn't until I was well into my teens that I tried some other places and realized that even most other big chains were better than Pizza Hut, to say nothing of local pizzerias.

>>5109304
This is true, and saddens me.

[Anonymous No.5109442]

>>5109220
What do you mean a small pizza's more pizza than I want. You don't know me.
Buying pizza by the slice is just inefficient. If you're getting pizza, go all the way. Have it delivered. If you want something on the go, get a burger, get a taco, get a hotdog, get kebab or falafel or whatever's you're poison, but don't spend a ridiculous amount of money on a single slice of pizza.

[Anonymous No.5109481]

>>5109240
Dominos employee here, we're located in a strip mall, less than a 2 minute walk from 3 different state-worker buildings as well as countless stores, know how often we get asked about a single slice? Never. People would rather come in, pay $5.99 and get a large 1 topping, and split the bill amongst any coworkers who want one. Normal customers take the rest home, or have familys. Single slices, means you're either trying to make individual slices and heat them (most people dont want the ~7 minute wait) or you've got whole pizzas, sitting under a heat lamp, drying out, and you're lucky if half of it sells. Not selling product, is losing money.

Also, we're using fresh toppings, yet somehow you're comparing it to Little Ceasers? Top fucking lel.

Captcha: Name Pickmo

[Anonymous No.5109489]

>>5109481
Meant to also link to this poster, >>5109221

[Anonymous No.5109497]

$3 for a reheated slice? How about a no. A personal pan pizza is like a buck fifty more and made to order...

[Anonymous No.5109529]

[Anonymous No.5109563]

Forgot the part of the article where they are testing this in rhode island and some place in nebraska. Places where by the slice aren't really that popular except at gas stations

[Anonymous No.5109570]

>>5109277
get papa johns at least twice a week. Although tomorrow going to try that new pizza hut crust

[Anonymous No.5109577]

I think my favorite pizza place is Mellow Mushroom.

Anyone else? It's expensive, but it's fucking good and the pizza is pretty huge.

[Anonymous No.5109582]

>>5109563

and in those particular places there generally aren't many (if any at all) home town pizza places.

Closest thing here is an italian resturant that has a small personal pizza and I'm pretty sold on the fact its just a tombstone microwave deep dish.

Although its a big rip off I could see them actually having success with this in most markets if it goes national. But obviously not places with legit by the slice competition like NY.

[Anonymous No.5109617]

Phillyfag here. Every pizza place here, and there are literally thousands, sell slices. Between 1 and 10 pizzas are made and put in a display case or on the counter or wherever and if you order one, they stick it in the oven to reheat it. At most of the places the cheese and sauce were nothing to write home about even when fresh so reheating doesn't make much difference. You can typically get a slice and a can of pop for about $3. That's a cheap lunch around here. There is also the much overlooked aspect of "wow... This place has taco pizza, but I don't want to order a whole one only get as far as one bite before I figure out that it sucks". You can sample stuff. I've built an entire 8 slice variety pie before.

Y'all should give it a try. You'll find out that the jones you get for pizza is about 90% satisfied after the first slice. The remaining 7 that you compulsively scarf down are just your bitterness and shame bending you over and gently buttfucking you while whispering in your ear "nah, you're not fat. Shhhh. No tears now, just me making warm chocolate milkshakes in your rectum.

Pic related. This place is mostly slingin slice pie (cheese pizza), but most other places always have buffalo chicken, sausage, pepperoni, "specia (called deluxe elsewhere, pepperoni sausage onions mushrooms and green peppers) and perhaps something exotic like a taco or bbq pizza.

[Anonymous No.5109624]

I can buy freshly made pizza from specialty pizzerias for $3 a slice. Even whole foods sells their organic pizzas for $3 a slice. Why would I pay that much for Pizza Hut?

[Anonymous No.5109634]

being from new jersey, i never thought twice about having pizza sold by the slice. what the hell is wrong with you, rest of the country? step it up

[Anonymous No.5109656]

>>5109634
>buying dried out heat lamp pizza
>getting jewed for it
>not just getting a whole pizza and splitting it/taking the leftovers home

[Anonymous No.5109664]

[Anonymous No.5109669]

>>5109634
> Phillyfag here.

Bit silly aren't they bro? Next thing you know, they'll be talking about getting out and pumping their own gas like a bunch of knuckledragging savages.

Nah seriously, not selling pizza as single servings is just shooting yourself in the foot. The fast food places are making $ hand over fist, most people would straight up tell you pizza is their favorite food, but I can't quite imagine going through a drive-thru and ordering pizza. They've been missing out on a huge market segment. And besides, perfectly easy to eat pizza while walking or driving.

I used to be a big dominos fan. Fav place growing up. The day I turned 16 I went there and applied for a job. Kept an eye on them and their commercials. They never had any balls. Breakfast pizza that included a newspaper. That's the only original idea they ever came up with. And lemme tell, I've been to one worlds fair, a picnic, and a rodeo... And that's the stupidest promo I've ever seen broadcast to a TV set. They always wait for everyone else, then they would take up the rear. First sandwich in 93'. Hot wings in 94'. Bread sticks in between those two. Pizza hut had already been doing that for years. Always limping into battle. Tardy. Disappoint.

New menu is cool tho, finally got their head out of their ass I see.

[Anonymous No.5109675]

Their dough is undercooked and shit.
In fact, everything about their pizza is shit.
There are so many mom and pop places that make great pizza; why would anyone choose a chain restaurant over that.

[Anonymous No.5109678]

Im not gonna read comments, but Ill throw in my 2 cents. I dont eat at Pizza Hut often but lately I had a craving for it. Had some pan and the 3 cheese stuft today actually. And I gotta say if you could eat god it would most likely taste like this. Inb4 the hipsters come out hating on Pizza Hut but man are they the bomb

[Anonymous No.5109691]

>>5109678
> Im not gonna read comments
You fuckin douchbag. You don't care enough about the thread to read it, you just wanted to come here and take a dump. Go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.5109693]

>>5109691
I'm hiding your post

[Anonymous No.5109892]

>>5109669
Welcome to pretty much every big corporate now. They're too afraid of risking a flop so they stick to pouring money into R&D or copying another business who tried something and it worked. Beating that same dead horse till it's nothing but blood and fur is the market. Just like big-name brewers buying up these microbreweries to keep their hold on the market once they realized people love something different.

[Anonymous No.5109904]

small company using more expensive ingredients and still turning out a better product then big name brewers that mass produce beer

[Anonymous No.5109954]

>>5109312

Whoa. Is that like a special location? I've never seen a Papa John's that wasn't just a counter with maybe 1 or 2 tiny tables.

[None !MaNTiTS3X2 No.5110100]

>>5109678
People don't hate it because it's widespread, Pizza Hut is just fucking gross. The only thing they have going for them is the stuffed crust, and you may as well get a decent pizza with cheese breadsticks on the side instead of the greasy garbage the stuffed crust is attached to.

[Anonymous No.5110129]

>>5110100
>gross
>greasy garbage

shut your fucking mouth hipster faggot

They wouldn't be so widespread if they weren't fucking great

[Anonymous No.5110131]

>>5109211
Wow, pizza by the slice has only been around for what, 50 years? Good to see they're finally catching on.

[Anonymous No.5110142]

>>5110129
hurrr

[Anonymous No.5110158]

>$2-$3 a slice

Costco says wassup

[Anonymous No.5110165]

>>5109217
>not eating a pizza cone

[Anonymous No.5110166]

Uh, our Pizza Hut Joint in Germany, Bavaria does that since I can remember.

[Anonymous No.5110167]

Pizza Hut is dogshit tier.

[Anonymous No.5110169]

>>5110165
is there chocolate in the tip of the cone pls say yes

[Anonymous No.5110170]

>>5110165
I'm always wanted to find a way to transport dairy napalm in an unsafe manner then blister off sever epithelial layers whilst trying to consume a subpar food! Thanks, Portugal! This is the best invention ever!

[Anonymous No.5110178]

makes sense i guess but the lunch crowd that goes to pizza hut here just hit the lunch buffet and fills a box and there are plenty of places that sell slices and none cost as much as $3 that is a very unattractive price point.

[Anonymous No.5110325]

>tfw in my country $3 is entire pizza (small)

[Anonymous No.5110411]

i work at a pizza hut and i can tell you, we ain't having this shit. the new handtoss pizza is pretty good, though. and if you don't like it you'll get refunded store credit

[Anonymous No.5110415]

>>5109442

Shut the fuck up dude. Sliced pizza is sold at nearly the same margin that the whole pies are.

I hate people like you. It's a cultural thing. If you live in a big American city like NYC or SF, it's completely normal to buy pizza by the slice. It's also sometimes cheaper than buying a whole pizza because they sell more slices than pies.

[Anonymous No.5110418]

>>5109529
/thread

[Anonymous No.5110447]

>>5110129

agreed. /thread

[Anonymous No.5110449]

>>5110170

agreed...its pretty horrible tasting. it makes hot pockets taste good

[Anonymous No.5110477]

>>5110411

I think they're only testing at 2 locations right now

York, NE
Pawtucket, RI

[Anonymous No.5110507]

I used to work at pizza hut. I guess they just make a pizza, cut it up, and then send it through the broiler thing. I wouldn't charge more than 2 bucks a slice. It will probably be better than the heat lamp shit you get from other places.

One time a belligerent hillbilly called the store, demanding pizza. Sounded completely drunk and his accent was so thick no one could understand him. Turns out he was a pizza hut big shot and had access to all our computer systems and was pissed off his pizza didn't arrive in 20 minutes or something. I assume he gets his kicks by touring the country tormenting small pizza hut franchises.

[Anonymous No.5110522]

been done for ages at the Manhattan store in kansas (the oldest / 2'nd store ever opened )
so i approve

[Anonymous No.5110752]

>>5109211
ALL PIZZA BY THE SLICE I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED: severely overpriced, even more than the pizza usually is anyway.

just make your own pizza at home with better ingredients= cheaper and better.

I am not a doctor. ask your doctor before doing anything.

[Anonymous No.5110793]

>>5109211
Pizza hut worker here and that new hand tossed style crust isnt any different. we just prepare it a different way so that it looks slightly different and the ring we put around it is bigger so the sauce and toppings go out to the crust more. the whole thing is literally a placebo effect. The only good difference is that we put garlic butter and seasoning on the crust which is going to be suck a pain in the ass to do when 20 pizzas are coming out at once.

[Anonymous No.5111102]

>>5110793
most of the reviews I've read about the new crust are negative, people think it's just overpowering and takes away from the whole flavor instead of adding to it

[Anonymous No.5111132]

>>5110522

how can the 2nd store be the oldest? the first was Wichita wasn't it? pic related

[Anonymous No.5111407]

>>5111132
>Anchovy

Was this ever actually popular as a pizza topping? Good lord.

[Anonymous No.5111458]

>>5111132
Only one thing... What's Pop?

[Anonymous No.5111483]

>>5111458

That's what us normal, even-tempered Midwestern folk call soda.

Well, in Iowa we do, anyway.

[Anonymous No.5111490]

Fuck pizza by the slice.

I'd rather just go to the gas station and get a 1$ burrito then a 3$ slice of dried out pizza.

What fucking wait? Pizza stores are deep in strip-malls or other out-of-the-way places. You'd pull off into secondary roads, navigate a parking lot and pay 3$ for a slice of fucking pizza? No fucking way. Nobody wants that.

[Porn Corporation No.5111551]

Domino's here has 2 slices [cut from small dough like a garlic or cinnamon sticks] 1 topping for $2.99.

[Anonymous No.5111638]

>>5109211

Sup Pizza Hut marketing department. Unemployed college graduate who eats lots of pizza here.

Pizza Hut has already been doing by-the-slice sales for years at places like mall food courts and public festivals, and that's where it belongs.

They could maybe do it in stores on college campuses or in crowded cities, where foot traffic is high, but in suburbs and the like it will be useless because you can't compete with drive-through. As ludicrous as your profit margin would be on single slices, it doesn't compare to the profit from selling off an entire pizza. And people will gladly buy an entire pizza of yours when they want just one slice, if the alternative does not exist.

Even if it could compete, Caesar's already does $5 for an entire pie, $2-3 for one slice is a huge ripoff and everyone will know it. If I'm gonna pay that much for a single slice it's gonna be a nice piece of local New York pie, not fast food pizza. You're delusional if you think pizza hut has that much more selling power than its fellow mass market vendors.

There's also the problem of getting the general public to even be aware that you've started selling by the slice. You'd have to spend a bunch on advertising on something that doesn't seem to justify the cost, then infuriate your customers when you inevitably can the idea. So you're only left to weak advertising options like posting on cooking message boards with thinly-veiled viral marketing ads. So in conclusion, sage.

[Anonymous No.5111686]

pizza hut pizza is kind of odd. they prepare it with so much oil and in such a hot pan that the edge of the crust gets kind of deep-fried. it's heretical, but I like it.

[Anonymous No.5111696]

>>5109211
I would love that. Sometimes I don't want a whole fuckin pizza.

[Anonymous No.5111701]

>>5111696
Just give me 16 slices.

[Anonymous No.5111702]

>>5109223
Pizza Hut tastes good. Don't know why you faggots always bitch about it.

[Anonymous No.5111726]

>>5111702
Anything shitty tastes good to a fatass, lard baron.

[Anonymous No.5111950]

>>5109240
Wow, okay... former Papa's employee here (when I was 18) - but okay, your questions baffle me, as to why you think it's so unusual.. there is a place in the NW called Papa Murphy's that doesn't even sell COOKED pizza, just whole pies you take and bake - but anyway-

Papa John's doesn't even have a dine in area, whenever drunk dumbasses or teenagers would sit on the carryout waiting bench and start eating their pizza we would just *facepalm*

Anyway, since you think Papa's has dumb business practices, they actually DO sell pizza by the slice SOMETIMES... IN SCHOOLS... that's right, for some of the art/magnet high schools in the city I grew up, Papa John's would show up every day and slang pizza for $2 a slice, - which makes them a ton of money, and also gets kids eating their product on their home turf...

It's all about waste, you don't make up pizzas you don't sell, you increase your profit margin