Pizza Hut shops

April 10, 2023 04:10AM

I stopped paying attention to most pizza shops. My husband found out they had a 40-dollar bonus on one that could be worked into our route (50 total). We picked it up and did it. It seemed easy enough but the store we got was not a very good pie house. The crust was dry and lacked flavor. It was cut horribly with very large pieces and normal-sized pieces.(Amatuerish) It was not cut through and did not have enough pepperoni to me. (Marco's Pizza has ALOT more pep and tastes better) (where I'm at in Georgia. it was ok for a future free meal. Unless they throw it for some obscure mess that I don't foresee I would not have a problem doing another. But the one issue I would bring to everyone's attention is that the pepperoni count WAS NOT in the guidelines. We didn't find out about that until we got back home and I started inputting it.

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April 12, 2023 11:59PM

I have one schedule for next week..

I was looking over the report that you fill out and I noticed in the right hand corner inside the pizza box, there was a small piece of paper with a name on it.

Do we need to put our first or last name on a piece of paper and put it in the box.

I also notice a comment box at the bottom. What do we comment? How long it took to get the pizza or if we liked the pizza?

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/2023 12:46AM by Isaiah4031a.

April 13, 2023 01:41AM

I am now from Calif but originally from NY. I have no idea how a place like Pizza Hut could have NY Pizza. It is not thin pizza at all unless you compare it to that stuff which is all bread with a smattering of sauce and cheese on it. NY pizza actually is tossed, just like you see in the movies and it has yeast in the crust which makes it have some body and with air holes in it. I doubt a national chain pizza place would take the time and effort to make a real NY Pizza. We do have some authentic NY style pizza places in LA. They are closer to NY style but still not the same. Like in a NY bagel, it is also about the water! And the cheese! never had a pizza in all the years I ate pizza in NY where the cheese was not quite thick to where if you take a bite you need to stretch the pizza out in front of your mouth for a foot or more to break the cheese thread,. And the sauce....it actually has soul to it and there is ample sauce which has oregano, garlic and the like that you can actually taste. and smell. OK now I am getting jealous of those able to eat NY pIzza every day.

@metro25782 wrote:

@shopnyc wrote:

@mystery2me wrote:

The pizza was greasy due to all the pepperoni slices. I guess that is how some New York pizza is supposed to be.
No, real NY pizza is not supposed to be greasy. What an absurd thing to say.
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When I was in NY about 10 years ago, I just wanted to walk around Manhattan for a bit so I parked and walked around for a couple of hours. I couldn't tell you where I was or anything but I got a slice of pizza from this corner place. Just brilliant.

We went across the Brooklyn Bridge and we were going to visit the original Grimaldi's but were told that the place next door is actually better--and ran by the same people who founded Grimaldi's. It was incredible.

April 13, 2023 02:49PM

@wrosie wrote:

Doesn't NY Style usually refer to the crust? Like Chicago Style usually means a deep dish pizza?

Yes, plus I think they say the sauce is different, but I haven't noticed that around here. We HATE NYC-style crust, but all the pizzerias around here are offering that. I guess because it's the trendy thing. We've found that to get good old-fashioned crust like the kind I grew up eating (western NY "real" Italian pizza), you have to order a Sicilian pizza, which isn't really Sicilian-style but has a decent thickness of crust. Or a Detroit or Chicago pizza, but most of the places around here have stopped offering those as well.

The Pizza Hut one had a crust that actually sort of stood up to being eaten with one hand and not folded. Nobody where I live walks around eating folded pizza slices, so I don't know why this trend is so big here. I suspect it's a money-saving thing--charge the same price but use less dough. I may be a cynic, but that's my take. Along with my area wanting to appear trendy when it's anything but. LOL.

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April 13, 2023 04:03PM

It is difficult to eat real NY pizza without folding it as the toppings of lots of cheese and sauce are heavy and not sustainable unless you have a case of crust around them when you pick it up. And the slices are generally larger so it is wide enough to fold. We have a lot of thin crust pizza here...NY pizza crust is thicker than thin crust pizza.

April 13, 2023 06:37PM

@sandyf wrote:

It is difficult to eat real NY pizza without folding it as the toppings of lots of cheese and sauce are heavy and not sustainable unless you have a case of crust around them when you pick it up. And the slices are generally larger so it is wide enough to fold. We have a lot of thin crust pizza here...

I know, and that's one of the reasons I hate it. I don't want to fold my pizza in order to be able to eat it. Around here, NYC-style crust and thin crust are about the same.... It's really hard to get a normal crust!

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

April 13, 2023 07:28PM

Yes, but that is the point, it has stuff on top of the bread. Those really thick pizzas are charging a lot for a piece of bread with a smattering of cheese and sauce. The thin crust pizza I get here in LA is usually advertised as Italian and the crust is much thinner than NYC style pizza where the crust does not ever fall apart or rip.. In NYC we had Sicilian pizza for those wanting a thicker crust. There was usually a pan of it in the corner for the Sicilians in the neighborhood. I grew up in an Italian/American neighborhood so perhaps our pizza loosely fashioned on Italian food was different but it sure was delicious. And there were no chains at the time long ago. All were mom and pop stores. People did not usually order a whole pizza. We walked up to the window and got a slice. I have lived in many other cities in the US and have not seen walk up windows with most customers walking on the street like we did eating our pizza. Things have probably changed a lot in Brooklyn too since my day.

@BirdyC wrote:

@sandyf wrote:

It is difficult to eat real NY pizza without folding it as the toppings of lots of cheese and sauce are heavy and not sustainable unless you have a case of crust around them when you pick it up. And the slices are generally larger so it is wide enough to fold. We have a lot of thin crust pizza here...

I know, and that's one of the reasons I hate it. I don't want to fold my pizza in order to be able to eat it. Around here, NYC-style crust and thin crust are about the same.... It's really hard to get a normal crust!

April 13, 2023 08:26PM

@sandyf wrote:

Yes, but that is the point, it has stuff on top of the bread. Those really thick pizzas are charging a lot for a piece of bread with a smattering of cheese and sauce.

It's hard to explain what our real Italian pizza crust in WNY was like. It's not Sicilian pizza, which is very thick and doughy with, as you say, a smattering of sauce and cheese. Usually Sicilian pizzas didn't have meat on them. And it's not Chicago or Detroit style, either.

The crust I grew up with was made in mom & pop pizzerias, as we had no chains in my town, either. It's about 3/8" to 1/2" thick, bubbly on the outside edges, and with loads of sauce and cheese and whatever toppings one wanted and Italian seasoning. This was how pizza was made throughout western NY, from Buffalo to Rochester at least. All with a strong Italian demographic, including my hometown of Batavia. This was also the kind of pizza I had when I lived in Massachusetts and when I visited Boston's Little Italy and other places throughout the northeast. Maybe I should call it a Northeast-except-NYC-style pizza! LOL.

When we first moved here, we could get a WNY-style pizza, but no more. They're all thin crust or NYC style (which, as I noted, seem to be the same things here).

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/2023 08:27PM by BirdyC.

April 13, 2023 10:05PM

I'm not really paying attention to all the authenticity comments. What are people expecting? This is a national chain that is trying to promote a product they think will sell. It probably does not sell well in NY, but those outside of NY might think they are getting something "close" to what it would be like.

I guess my expectations are not that high for PH. It's just a marketing gimmick like their Detroit-style pizza they had at one point. I'm sure people in Detroit thought it was a cheap imitation as well.

April 13, 2023 11:19PM

I always eat my pizza with a fork and knife. I never fold it, but yes, I saw many people walking around eating a folded slice when I lived in NYC.

April 14, 2023 12:34AM

@shopnyc wrote:

I always eat my pizza with a fork and knife. I never fold it, but yes, I saw many people walking around eating a folded slice when I lived in NYC.

I also eat my pizza with fork and knife

April 14, 2023 02:51AM

@shopnyc wrote:

I always eat my pizza with a fork and knife. I never fold it, but yes, I saw many people walking around eating a folded slice when I lived in NYC.

I understand from people I know who live in NYC that this is common, thus the name. But where I live, people don't walk around eating folded pizza, so I don't know why we can't get a traditional-crust pizza here. A lot of folks here feel this way. Many western NY transplants bemoan the lack of a place where you can get one! We Italians are serious about our pizza! LOL.

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.

April 16, 2023 04:41PM

My mouth is watering reading this thread...me wants some good ole fashioned pizza right about now..boardwalk pizza..the best

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April 16, 2023 07:16PM

While in Hong Kong on business many years ago, my co-workers and I decided to get pizza. It was DISGUSTING, but we got it and proceeded to fold it in half and attempt to eat it as we had to go. It really has nothing to do with NY, just the ease of eating a wide slice of pizza while walking. Everything went in the garbage after 30 seconds though. The stares we received, LMAO~True classic.

April 23, 2023 05:51PM

Question for those who completed one of the earlier Pizza Hut medium peperoni shops. Will you please explain the photo you saw in the guidelines regarding how half of the pizza was to be flipped showing the bottom. Curious because I am wondering if the photo in the guidelines was changed recently when they made updates.

April 24, 2023 12:47AM

@low country mystery shopper wrote:

Question for those who completed one of the earlier Pizza Hut medium peperoni shops. Will you please explain the photo you saw in the guidelines regarding how half of the pizza was to be flipped showing the bottom. Curious because I am wondering if the photo in the guidelines was changed recently when they made updates.

What is it about the photo that is different or confusing?

May 03, 2023 12:02AM

Wondering when/if bonuses will be put on these DELIVERY ONLY shops. The list gets sent daily and basically the same locations remain in the same cities for California. Not focused on other states.

I'm thinking if they are going to FORCE the delivery scenario...they are going to have to increase the price for people to hassle driving to a location to get a pizza delivered to them.

I have my eye on a few when/if that price gets increased. So far, same locations with the same crap $10.

May 03, 2023 02:48AM

on a tangent--I have never ever seen pizza shops that do not insist on Peperoni as the topping. I can understand wanting a topping BUT why Peperoni, a animal product that eliminates several groups of shoppers from applying??????

May 03, 2023 04:28AM

i get that Pepperoni might not be everyone's favorite...but it probably is the most commonly ordered pizza and they want to compare them. They cannot get what they want in comparison if they let everyone order whatever they want.

The In N Out shops are very successful (with a different MSC) because ALL locations have the same order instrx. One round might be a Double Double. Another round is cheeseburger only. Last round is hamburger. This way each round they can compare results from all locations on the SAME ORDER.

I think if you really want the Domino's or Pizza Hut pizza, just pull off the pepperoni and add your own toppings after taking the pictures and heat up for a few more minutes.

I don't desire either chain regardless of what they let me order. I'm not saying I will not eat it...but it certainly is something that doesn't bother me if I am not doing them.

@Rho* wrote:

on a tangent--I have never ever seen pizza shops that do not insist on Peperoni as the topping. I can understand wanting a topping BUT why Peperoni, a animal product that eliminates several groups of shoppers from applying??????

May 03, 2023 12:19PM

20 yrs. ago, I would complete a Papa John's in a ghetto for a fee of $20 + the reimbursement for a "works" pie. I was not crazy with the pic requirement, but it was worth the aggravation. Unfortunately, the MSC's owner met his demise and the account moved to another company; both the fee and "works" option were dropped.

May 03, 2023 08:13PM

There is a new shop for a Cheesesteak Melt. The instructions state to order "A Cheesesteak Mel". My report was rejected because they claim I was supposed to have ordered 2 of them. I do have a copy of the instructions and have appealed.

May 08, 2023 04:24PM

Instead of adding a bonus to the shops...the MSC convinced the client to now allow CARRYOUT. So they wanted delivery this particular time and in order to fill the shops...they will allow carryout instead of paying a bit more for someone to go to the area to do a delivery and keep the scenario the same.

May 08, 2023 04:49PM

I noticed that too. It is actually the time slot that bothers me the most. I would do it if it was during the day.

May 08, 2023 04:56PM

Yes...they are quite restrictive. Only certain hours. Mondays not allowed. Only pepperoni and at the beginning ONLY DELIVERY. So they loosened 1 thing and now allow takeout. Nothing else changed.

May 08, 2023 05:35PM

For some of the more rural locations near me, it is more practical to allow carryout than to have a shopper find a place to park and wait for a delivery. Some of the people in these small towns would think that its suspicious.
The requirements on the ones by me are still for the same pizza, and they want some ordered through the app only, some through the website.

May 09, 2023 01:28AM

To do a Pizza Hut shop right now I would have to do it in a different city because the Pizza Hut that we used to have here is gone, even the building is gone. I've been tempted, but the last time I ate at Pizza Hut I had some disastrous results (tummy trouble).

May 09, 2023 02:50AM

PH and Dominos is same MSC. Sadly, it is a scheduler team that is know for being "most disliked" by many shoppers.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2023 03:08AM by FrostyBubbles.

May 09, 2023 08:36AM

@FrostyBubbles wrote:

PH and Dominos is same MSC. Sadly, it is a scheduler team that is know for being "most disliked" by many shoppers.

I saw them on Presto, I didn't notice Nikki's name when I looked at the shops. Was her name still on them on Presto?

May 09, 2023 12:18PM

@Isaiah4031a wrote:

@shopnyc wrote:

I always eat my pizza with a fork and knife. I never fold it, but yes, I saw many people walking around eating a folded slice when I lived in NYC.

I also eat my pizza with fork and knife

Long ago in NY a group of us went out after work (& drinking) for pizza. One person who was from another country started with the knife and fork. Horrified, we told him that that was illegal and he could get deported for it! Yeah, we were a fun bunch.

May 09, 2023 12:50PM

I also noticed the take out shops..

What is wrong with doing it during the day?? A pizza is a Pizza is it??? I guess it depends on who is working at the time.

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