• @hperrin
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    3611 months ago

    If a company can’t pay their workers a livable wage, then they shouldn’t be in business.

  • @db2
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    2911 months ago

    Well, guess I’m done ordering from there now.

    • @Serinus
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      911 months ago

      I expect I’ll never use door dash or similar services. The quality is so low and the price is so high.

      If I had to get something delivered, it’d be a pizza. Well, you know, one that still has its own drivers.

      • @BiteSizedZeitGeist
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        811 months ago

        As a former Pizza Hut/Papa John’s/Marco’s/Hungry Howie’s driver, totally fine with this. Food delivery drivers are typically underpaid, especially considering how expensive cars are.

        I kinda want to say that delivery services are charging what delivery should cost to compensate drivers fairly, but I don’t know how much of the customer pays go to the drivers and how much the delivery service keeps. I wouldn’t mind the upcharge on menu items if the driver got paid well.

      • @sploosh
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        311 months ago

        The price is high and the person doing the work is paid barely any of it - the tip is where most of the money comes from for them.

      • @Graphy
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        2511 months ago

        Sometimes you just want a crappy pan pizza

          • Transporter Room 3
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            411 months ago

            You’ve never thought to yourself “fuck, I want a taco bell taco/burrito” or “I could really go for just a cheeseburger from burger king/mcd/wendys” or something like that?

            None of it is “good” food, but sometimes that doesn’t matter. I could make my own double bacon cheeseburger with seasonings and perfectly toasted brioche buns. But every so often, I just want a shitty fast food burger that I didn’t have to put effort into.

            • @BiteSizedZeitGeist
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              411 months ago

              Seconding this. I like good food, sure. I like bad food too, and I don’t care what other people think about that.

            • @[email protected]
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              011 months ago

              But why when I can get an actually good one from another restaurant? Can’t say I’ve ever actually wanted to get taco bell except when others are already ordering from there.

        • Fubber Nuckin'
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          211 months ago

          Their pasta is really the highlight. Don’t know how they managed to make it so much better than the pizza.

  • @reddig33
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    2411 months ago

    “Most Pizza Hut restaurants in the state work with third-party delivery apps, such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and GrubHub.”

    Sounds like a business plan that was already in motion before the wage hike. I know that competing chains have been offering huge discounts to incentivize you to pick up your pizza instead of have it delivered by the chain. I wonder if pizza delivery pays more or less than these services.

    • @LaunchesKayaks
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      411 months ago

      My local pizza places (including a pizza hut) stopped hiring drivers and use exclusively door dash drivers for delivery. If they don’t have any dashers available, they call and tell you your food is gonna be late because they don’t have anyone to pick it up. I don’t order pizza anymore lol

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      311 months ago

      I was going to comment that I was surprised they even had their own drivers anymore.

      The last 2 Pizza Hut delivery orders I made in the app/website were delivered by Door dash here in AZ. I assumed they had just switched over entirely.

  • Transporter Room 3
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    611 months ago

    Well, guess I’ll have to get my stuffed crust elsewhere. I’m on the other side of the country, doesn’t matter that none of mine are affected, they’re a shitty company.

    Anyone got any recommendations for a good stuffed crust pizza? My “neutral” bar is pizza hut pizza, so compared to that.

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 months ago

      If you’re bpycotting pizza hut you have to add Long John Silvers, KFC, Taco Bell, and A&W too, they’re all subsidiaries of Yum! Foods Inc™.

      • Transporter Room 3
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        411 months ago

        Very true!

        I don’t eat at any of those places anyway though. Not a huge chicken guy, theres a great local tex-mex place if I’m in the mood, and I’m very particular about fish so I only eat what I’ve cooked myself, there.

        But they’re on the ever-expanding list of companies that just can’t stop being shitty…

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    411 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Two Pizza Hut operators in California are eliminating their in-house delivery services at hundreds of stores, resulting in more than 1,200 driver layoffs, according to federal-employment notices reviewed by Business Insider.

    The layoffs, effective throughout February, affect Pizza Hut delivery drivers across California, including at Sacramento, Palm Springs, and Los Angeles locations.

    The Pizza Hut franchisees are reducing staff as fast-food chains in the state brace for a new law that increases worker pay to $20 an hour in April.

    A driver who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation told BI that he was offered $400 severance pay if he stuck around through his February 5 layoff date.

    Lisa Hough, the director of human resources for PacPizza in San Ramon, California, was listed as the contact on all five WARN Act notices that the company’s president, Brian E. Thompson, signed.

    Mark Kalinowski, a restaurant-industry analyst, wrote in a note this week that he expected “more harm to come” in various ways as fast-food chains “take action in an attempt to blunt the impact of higher labor costs.”


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  • Pistcow
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    311 months ago

    We have a local burger joint in Seattle that has a $25 wage, $18k in tuition, and child care.