They made some change like 10 years ago.
They made a bunch of changes just like 2-3 years ago. If you're just calling them up and ordering basic pizzas, then yeah Pizza Hut is mediocre as all get out (and junk if you order those shitty cheapass square ones). Most of the stuff (sauces, crust options) doesn't even cost anything either so its not like you have to spend a bunch to improve it. And they're basically perpetually running specials (almost always have a $10 anything large).
I'm a fan of pizza hut's $6.99 medium unlimited topping pizzas. I create a pan BBQ chicken pizza with the garlic butter crust and it's really good. Then I'll just create some other meat lovers type of pizza for the second one usually. They have a lot of customization you can do now with sauces and crust types.
Yeah there's a ton of options now. I never understand the people that go "I haven't eaten there in 15 years, but they suck" and clearly don't know what they're talking about. Not that its necessarily their fault considering Pizza Hut's dumbass commercials (which either seem to focus on their gimmicky stuffed crust or the awful square box pizzas).
I think it varies by restaurant. One by where I used to work had a lunch buffet and I enjoyed their pizza. Moved to a new job and tried the local Pizza hut buffet and it was terrible. Made me wonder if they had different consistency control efforts than other chains
It definitely does. Its sad that there's such variance between chains since that should be a major focal point of them to minimize that, but there's always some good ones and some bad ones.
Yeah, the buffets are a crapshoot. But that's true of any place that does stuff like that.
Pizza hut is still crap.
Also - I quoted the OP because of the absurd indication that Papa Johns and Domino's produce quality pizza. No offense OP - but you really need to find yourself a good brick oven joint and taste what quality pizza is really like. Or pretty much any pizza joint in NYC, Chicago, or Boston. World of difference.
Eh they're fine. You can obviously get bad pizza from them (I've gotten ones that were really greasy with soggy crust, but that only happened a few times, over years). I prefer them over basically every other pizza chain that I've had (obviously haven't had all of them), and certainly the major ones. But I'm also not expecting gourmet Italian style pizza either. Nor am I focused on things that don't make any difference with regards to it being good (just making a slice extra wide doesn't make it better).
Yeah, just have them deliver from there or road trip when you feel like some pizza. Talk about absurd. Hell I would have considered your post less absurd if you said "buy your own brick oven and learn to make great pizza yourself".