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re: RIP in peace Pizza Hut: Yum Brands sells PH to PE for $2.7B

Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:27 am to
Posted by Pilot Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2005
74038 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:27 am to
PE is a scourge on this planet

No one cares about just making a good product and selling it at a fair price and providing a good customer experience.

Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
12006 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:28 am to
I have a double oven. The lower is home to a pizza stone .In my refrigerator freezer I keep frozen dough sized for individual pizzas. I know the thaw out time.
I have two pizza piels, and all the ingredients.

There's a pizza place over in Asheville NC (that used to be called Marco's) that is so good, we do buy there when we're over there. Otherwise, my home made crusts with ingredients we love more that cover the franchise pizzas that are available and avoidable.
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
39994 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:29 am to
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RIP in peace Pizza Hut:
Yes. What a vital part of American culture Pizza Hut has been in recent decades.
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
20759 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:30 am to
quote:

But their buildings will live on forever in some form or fashion


One of those Discovery "When nature takes back over" post-apocalyptic type shows should show nature completely returning the cities to forest, but the red roofs still there.

That's what'll happen.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
Disgruntled employee
Member since Dec 2007
24073 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:31 am to
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their buildings will live on forever in some form or fashion


Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
20759 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:32 am to
quote:


I have a double oven. The lower is home to a pizza stone .In my refrigerator freezer I keep frozen dough sized for individual pizzas. I know the thaw out time.
I have two pizza piels, and all the ingredients.

There's a pizza place over in Asheville NC (that used to be called Marco's) that is so good, we do buy there when we're over there. Otherwise, my home made crusts with ingredients we love more that cover the franchise pizzas that are available and avoidable.


I have an Ooni and it makes legit pizzas, but the damn thing just sits in my garage and I order from local pizza places

It's so messy to make pizza

Posted by HarryHoudini
Member since Oct 2025
1238 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:35 am to
Yeah jets is pretty good.

I actually bought a pizza steel recently and have been making 14” New York style pizzas at home. They’ve been delicious. Saw this guy making em in YouTube and had to try it out.
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
30295 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:37 am to
Pizza Hut has been literal shite for years. I mean if you have to order fast food pizza it’s Papa John’s, Dominos, grocery store frozen….in that order!!!
Posted by slidingstop
Member since Jan 2025
2398 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:38 am to
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The enshittification will accelerate


how is it going to get worse?
Posted by MKP2004
Member since Mar 2026
464 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:47 am to
frick private equity. It's a malignant cancer that destroys everything it touches.

RIP Pizza Hut.
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3791 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:47 am to
The lunch buffet offered in the late 90s was the bomb. There was a Pizza Hut on the grounds of the shopping center I worked in; we hit it up on the regular.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
108389 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:48 am to
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Fun Fact Yum Brands also owns KFC.

They also own Taco Bell. Since Pepsi owns Yum Brands I wonder if there is a clause that locks the future Pizza Hut owners into Pepsi Products.

That has been my biggest issue with Pizza Hut. No Coke products.

I guess we can say good bye to the KFC Taco Hut, Taco Hut, or KFC Hut. When some fanchisees blended the restaurants together.


Yeah, they're HQ'd here in Louisville (Yum Brands).
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33146 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:56 am to
Pizza Hut was spiraling away long ago.
Posted by bulletprooftiger
Member since Aug 2006
2504 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 11:58 am to
Posted by Violent Hip Swivel
Member since Aug 2023
9616 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:01 pm to
It's incredible that Pizza Hut's value is placed at 2.7 billion but a driverless taxi company is valued at over 100 billion dollars. The future happens fast sometimes, I guess.
Posted by CleverUserName
Member since Oct 2016
17767 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:05 pm to
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Pizza Hut would provide “the strongest path” to maximize shareholder value


And thats what destroyed the brand to begin with and left it with LESS shareholder value.

The strongest path is to bring back the 80's recipes and methods and produce a product someone wants to buy. And also competency in making and delivery of said product.

But it wouldn't surprise me if it was soon relegated to being gas station pizza.
This post was edited on 6/16/26 at 12:07 pm
Posted by FearlessFreep
Baja Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
20078 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:07 pm to


brings back memories of my highschool days, when the PH was the only chain restaurant in town and the parking lot was the Friday/Saturday night hangout

Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
9455 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:07 pm to
I liked Pizza Hut a lot back in the 80's 90's. Then suddenly around the end of the 90's our local sit down restaurants in Baton Rouge with the buffets closed and all the take out/ delivery stores service went to absolute shite. Like literally almost overnight.... you couldnt even get them to answer the phone to place an order and if you could reach them it would be a two hour wait. It was so bizarre how to me how fast their business seemed to just collapse.
This post was edited on 6/16/26 at 12:09 pm
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
10513 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:12 pm to
Papa John’s blows.
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
19355 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:31 pm to
I don’t know how you PE Pizza Hut pizza any more than they already did. It’s junk.

They might be headed the Little Caesars route
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