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coupon madness
Pizza Hut Coupons Let You Choose To Be An Idiot If You Want
While digging around on the Pizza Hut website's deals section, Jacob found this murderers' row of pizza coupons, which lets you get a large one-topping pizza for $9.99, $10.99 or $11.99 — your choice! He writes: More » -
beatings
Pizza Hut Manager Attacks Old Man
A 27-year-old Pizza Hut manager in Winnipeg, Manitoba, went bonkers last Friday and dragged a 76-year-old customer to the ground over a payment dispute. The manager was arrested, and the customer returned the next afternoon to dine, because he is afraid of nothing. More » -
deals
Pizza Hut: 20% Off When You Order Via iPhone App
Pizza Hut is giving a 20% discount on all orders placed via its new iPhone app. We found a user review on YouTube, and he likes it. Beyond the usual app gimmickry, pinching a pizza to make it smaller or larger and shaking the phone to make wings spicey, it also has the excellent function of storing all your coupons for easy use. More » -
free stuff
Free Food From Pizza Hut Via Twitter And Facebook
The new Pizza Hut social media intern has her first assignment, and it's to give out codes for free stuffed pizza rolls to the company's followers on Twitter and Facebook. Let's hope they've planned ahead better than KFC did. [Mashable] (Thanks, David!)
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rebranding
Pizza Hut Tries To Avoid Blame For Its Pizza, Shortens Name To "The Hut"
Update: To clarify, Pizza Hut isn't changing its name. It's co-adopting "The Hut" is a secondary branding mark, or something like that. (Thanks to William!) More » -
age verification
Yum! Wants Feedback Only From Ancient Ones, Mummies, Civil War Veterans
Want to provide some feedback to Yum! Brands, the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, and A&W Restaurants? No matter how old you are—they go back as far as Jan 1st, 1906—they'll tell you that you're too young to use the "Contact Us" part of their website. Yum! is in it for the long haul, and they don't need a bunch of jibber-jabber from hooligans like you.
"Contact Us" [Yum] (Thanks to JB!)
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property damage
Crazed Pizza Hut Delivery Guy Drives Onto Your Lawn, Tries To Fight You, Leaves With Food
Eugene and his wife Julie tried to order some pasta from Pizza Hut the other night. What they got instead was a turfed lawn and an invitation to a fist fight from the very angry delivery guy. More » -
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pizza wars
Domino's Trademarks Pizza Hut's Product Names In The UK
Pizza Hut is testing a new type of pizza in Florida and Texas. It's called the 'Natural Rustica' and according to Brand Republic, the pizza features "sauces made from organic tomatoes and toppings without artificial preservatives. To enhance its premium credentials, the range is made from a multi-grain crust of traditional pizza dough and wholegrain infused with honey and olive oil." Honey? Anyway, Domino's must like this idea because they've trademarked the "Natural Rustica" name in the UK. More » -
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Pizza Hut Accuses Customer Of "Making The Coupon Up"
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pizza hut
Pizza Hut Accuses Customer Of "Making The Coupon Up"
Pizza Hut called Danielle a liar for trying to redeem a promotional coupon they emailed to her and displayed prominently on their website. In exchange for completing an offer from TrialPay, Danielle should have received two free medium pizzas, one with toppings, plus breadsticks. Instead, her favorite pizza place told her, "M'am, you're lying about what the coupon promised." More » -
pizza hut
Pizza Hut Sends Unsolicited Email To Apologize For Sending Unsolicited Email
Pizza Hut apologized for sending an unsolicited marketing email by sending an unsolicited apology email. We've all accidentally hit send without ending the world, but the pizza-maker's flub is all the more egregious because they force customer who place orders online to opt-in to spam marketing. According to Pizza Hut, the error occurred while "testing new functionality." More » -
unacceptable food
Pizza Hut Is Sorry It Baked A Cockroach Into Your Pizza, Got Fined $35,000
Here's a lovely little story from our friends down in Bellbowrie, Australia. It seems that they have a Pizza Hut in Bellbowrie, and that Pizza Hut has cockroaches. Lots of cockroaches. So many cockroaches, in fact, that it baked one alive into a meatlovers pizza. More » -
yum brands
Yum! Brands Restaurants Now Serving Tomatoes
Junk food connoisseurs will be elated to learn that according to Fox 5, Yum! Brand restaurants are now restocking tomatoes after the recent salmonella outbreak which has forced many restaurants to take them off the menu. Federal officials say that the outbreak has sickened 277 people nationwide. The Yum! Brand restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, A&W and Long John Silver's. This article does not imply, however, that their food alone won't make you sick.
Yum Brands Serving Tomatoes [Fox 5]
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the onion
Yum! Brands Introduces New Wearable Feedbags
Whether you're trying to get as much of your Yum! Brand food into your mouth as humanly possible or just not in the mood to raise those heavy old arms to feed yourself, new wearable feed bags are functional, fashionable and sweeping the nation. Foods from Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut work the best, but we've found that wearable feedbags work on almost any kind of food, and they look great too. See The Onion video, inside... More » -
happy endings
Pizza Hut And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Reader Chris write in to let us know that even though his local Pizza Hut was having a really, really bad day (car accidents, miscommunication, messed up refunds) they went out of their way to try to make it up to him. More » -
backlash
Pizza Hut Delivery Driver Fired For Shooting Armed Robber
A Pizza Hut delivery driver with a valid handgun permit has been fired after he shot an armed robber who put a gun to his head and demanded he turn over his cash. Now an Iowa state senator is calling for a boycott of Pizza Hut:"You tell me any Iowan that was in his situation, that had a gun put to his head, how they would've reacted differently," state Sen. Brad Zaun of Urbandale said. "I think it's the wrong decision by Pizza Hut and I will not be buying any more Pizza Hut products."
Pizza Hut says it's against company policy for delivery drivers to carry guns, even with a valid permit. More » -
bad business
Pizza Hut Forces You To Opt-In To Spam Marketing When Ordering Online
When you place an order on Pizza Hut's website, you have to create an account, and to create an account, you have to check the box that says you agree to their privacy policy and terms of use. It also says, "I agree to receive information about Pizza Hut®/WingStreet® couons, promotions, announcements, events and specials." This e-commerce blogger is amazed that Pizza Hut would resort to such a sneaky tactic, which ultimately ruins the customer experience and probably costs them online orders. More »
