Major chains like Domino’s and Pizza Hut have also been developing driverless cars for pizza delivery, but the jury’s still out on that technology. Food delivery robots, however, are already a reality, especially on college campuses like George Mason University and the University of Mississippi...
“Pizza Hut has had a lot of success experimenting with their pizza offerings in international markets, because that’s what consumers often want and expect from these chains,” Dutton notes. The same goes for Domino’s, which encourages local sourcing of ingredients through its master franchise ...
Pizza Hut had already experimented with localized online ordering, launching PizzaNet in 1994, but their delivery was limited to the Santa Cruz, California area, and an employee had to call the customer by phone to verify the order. “The beauty of WebObjects was that it was database-driven,...
Even so, Technomic notes, “better-for-you qualities still resonate” with pizza customers. That’s why we’re still seeing innovations such as the “Skinny Slice” pies that Pizza Hut (pizzahut.com) rolled out this fall in Toledo, Ohio, and West Palm Beach, Florida. Made with less dough...
like Domino’s, added 30,000 employees to meet increased demand. But it had to temporarily close more than 1,000 Pizza Hut Express units due to the pandemic. Perhaps the hardest blow came when NPC International, Pizza Hut’s largest U.S. franchisee, with more than 1,200 stores, filed ...