Pizza Hut restaurants

There's one down near Covington GA - well, I'm sure there are a lot more than that!

But, here goes the sit-down PH story: I signed my youngest son up for day camp at Charlie Elliot Wildlife Center down near Covington GA a couple years ago. We live a good hour and a half - two hours away depending on traffic, so I took the week off work and we pitched a tent in their primiive camping area (no running water, no restrooms, ...).

The program was good, the camp staff did a good job - but Georgia gets pretty hot in the summer time! We'd do the day camp, we'd do some flat-water kayaking and fishing, but when camp let out around 3:00 every day - we'd head off to the closest air-conditioned place we could find!

We found a very tasty older-style Dairy Queen. We found a sit-down Pizza Hut. We took rides checking out the area. And we were VERY happy when heavy thunderstorms rolled in, as that meant we could just drive home for the night! (ever try sleeping in a wet tent, or sleeping in a Toyota Corolla in the summer in Georgia? Can't be done! If you roll the windows down, the mosquitos get you. If you roll the windows up - the heat gets you. If you ignore both, you can't get comfortable enough to sleep).

So - while I hate Pizza Hut - it can be good if it is air-conditioned and you order pitchers of coke! I'd pass on the pizza, though.

Good or bad, PH is about the best pizza place around here. In one place I like their toppings, but their crust is horrible. In the second I love their crust, but their toppings are horrible. (They claim to be a true Italian Pizzaria.) And the third I wouldn't order from if you had a gun to my head. (Their quality sucks, and I know the people who work there. Don't even ask where they buy their inventory. About the only reason they stay open is that they have rock bottom prices.)

However, the PH here is (usually) a good place to order. I just wouldn't go to the two in the next town. Now, if only they lowered their prices. (They are a franchise, and have raised their prices several times in the last couple of years.)

I'd rather go to Iraq than order anything from Pizza Hut. Before I moved, PH was almost a daily occurrence at the house. The Alka-Seltzer was standing by. I'd rather starve than eat Pizza Hut.

I have some thoughts about Pizza Hut. I have found that if you ask them to cook the pizza time and a half, it turns out much better. I have got them before and the crust was mush. I realize that there are many out there that are better but sometimes when I travel, get to the motel at 9:00PM, the availability is not much.

I also ask them for double cheese, pepperoni on top where it will get crispy and always onions, mushroom and peppers.

Sometimes any port in a storm has to work and if you know what to ask for instead of getting their standard pizza, it really improves the experience.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

I remember the old Pizza Hut dining rooms. There was one in New Hampshire on our usual route to Maine. I believe it was in Manchester. Sitting down in a dining room for pizza seemed like a big deal when I was seven. The pizza was okay, too. Not as good as in Rhode Island, but a lot better than anything else you'd find in Northern New England in the late 60s.

I did occasionally succumb to a food court style Pizza Hut in my 20s. It was in NYC, on Broadway in the 50s. The pizza was pretty lousy, but it was one of the only places near work where I could get lunch and a 16 oz. Bud for under five bucks.

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Originally posted by Greymo

I drive by a Pizza Hut, once in a while, that says Italian Bistro over the name Pizza Hut. What is that all about?

Pizza Hut Probably sold it to a Independent restaurant and they had to put their sign over the Pizza Hut Sign until they have one made.

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Originally posted by Zig

I have noticed that the local Pizza Hut's (Fort Wayne) are much better then other parts of the country. They are all ran by the same fella, Richard Freelandand, he just seems to manage them better.

I moved to Indy a few years ago and I miss the Fort Wayne area Pizza Hut's! Even just an hour north of here the Pizza Huts are better than they are here in Indy. Everytime I visit my in-laws I have to go to the one on Coliseum in front of Best Buy

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Originally posted by Quartz

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Originally posted by Greymo

I drive by a Pizza Hut, once in a while, that says Italian Bistro over the name Pizza Hut. What is that all about?

Pizza Hut Probably sold it to a Independent restaurant and they had to put their sign over the Pizza Hut Sign until they have one made.

Some Pizza Huts are a little more "upscale", and they are called Pizza Hut Italian Bistro. I think they just have some different menu items, like pastas, that you don't see at the normal Pizza Huts or the Pizza Hut Carry-Outs.