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Pizza Hut franchises in California lay off all delivery drivers ahead of $20 minimum wage increase
(www.sfchronicle.com)
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No one out fires the Hut.
Sadly, very nearly everyone out pizzas the Hut these days. However, if I could have one meal from the 90s, dine-in Pizza Hut would be a finalist, at least. Whatever microplastics they used in those classy red cups made the soda taste better. And the stained glass light fixtures gave it the refinement of a 1,000 year old church in Europe.
How far they've fallen.
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Getting less business will surely help with the wage increases.
Pizza restaurants with delivery drivers frequently make 75% of their business through delivery. Let's assume they will lose all of that business - because they just did. So they are decreasing gross revenues by 75%. Bravo.
It's not delivery. It's Pizza Hut.
When has anyone ever driven to a pizza hut? I remember do so as a child but now pizza hut seems like a definite delivery thing.
In the early 80s Pizza Hut used to be sort of like a normal restaurant... they usually had standalone buildings (which now have mostly been turned into other restaurants) rather than spots in strip malls, with a seating area. You could order a pizza or sandwiches and eat with your family, and they had a salad bar back when salad bars were kind of a hot trend. This persisted into the 2000s especially in smaller areas.
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To be fair, it’s wild that anyone still employs full time delivery drivers. Every pizza place I’ve worked at either had an employee doing double duty, or used a third party that got paid per delivery. Paying someone an hourly wage to do a job that isn’t even guaranteed to be required (depending on the night) is some franchise-only shit, and I’m not surprised to hear even they’re moving away from it.
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