Comments on: Making sure Pizza Hut is "accurately and effectively represented online"

By: creesto

creesto — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:08:00 +0000

Ugh…can’t eat Pizza Hut pizza…nor Papa John’s (especially after Schnatter’s douchey ACA response) so Domino’s is much less offensive to MY little taste buddies…

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:28:00 +0000

i for one am switching from Dominoes to Pizza Hut in the wake of how polite and non take-down-noticey this mail was.

By: mistwolf

mistwolf — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Played this for the first time for my kids the other day, they laughed their tiny butts off. Pizza the Hutt was an especial favourite, even though we never eat there. Apparently, there’s some song in Australian scouting involving fast food restaurants specifically pizza hut, that is fun to sing and totally not free advertising.

By: azaner

azaner — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:37:00 +0000

Gotta agree with those who see the email as a polite request, and nothing more. The whole interaction now reads as Pescovitz being peeved and frustrated that his original snarky post (about an admittedly very odd product) was met with nothing but additional sincere effort to promote Pizza Hut products.

By: Corey Marie Parkhill

Corey Marie Parkhill — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:12:00 +0000

I got this (nearly) exact same form email from someone representing Kohl’s when I wrote a blog post and didn’t link to them for a pair of $9 tights. I’ve been web-publishing since ’99, and SEO is creeeeepy.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:28:00 +0000

I lived near a Long John Silver’s/KFC and the chicken tasted of fish. I can’t have kfc again, which is probably a good thing.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:24:00 +0000

I know someone who hated the ‘Domino’s Is Now Better’ ads because she felt they were demeaning her for liking the old pizza. I’d make fun of someone for letting ads have power over them, but then I remembered that there’s still some PSAs that terrify me.

By: social_maladroit

social_maladroit — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:56:00 +0000

Too bad “goatse.cx” is no longer what it used to be.

Curiously enough, Wikipedia reports that, when the “goatse.cx” domain was available again after being shut down, the company trying to sell it was named “SEOBidding”.

By: pdx bridge festival

pdx bridge festival — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:08:00 +0000

if Pizza Hut has a trademark on that roof design, a million Hmong households in Southern China, northern Vietnam, Thailand, etc. are infringing it mightily.

By: rocketboy1971

rocketboy1971 — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:49:00 +0000

I’m at the combination PIzza Hut and Taco Bell.

(Thanks a bunch, now I need mental floss.)

By: teapot

teapot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:37:00 +0000

Here’s a lesson in SEO kids: Links in comments are worth crap-all in relative linkjuice compared to a link in the body copy of a post.

By: teapot

teapot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:35:00 +0000

A posturing wanna-be-takedown-notice would’ve been met by David with a different response?

By: teapot

teapot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Um.. No email?

By: teapot

teapot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:26:00 +0000

You bastard, Pesco! How dare you ride the wave of Pizza Hut marketing genius without giving them a link!

Here you go nice Pizza Hut man, thanks for helping to fix the internet:
http://www.pizzahut.com

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Say, aren’t Pizza Hut pizzas topped with a frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex?

I can play SEO, too.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Have you seen Cory’s e-mail EULA? I had to get a bigger computer just to hold his e-mails.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:22:00 +0000

I have a combination KFC/Taco Bell a block from my house. That’s almost as good.

Weirdly, it’s the only drive-thru in my neighborhood with obviously bulletproof glass.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Hey, if nothing else, Pizza Hut’s efforts to reclaim the delivery market from Domino’s in the late 80s helped to greatly improve the quality of Domino’s product. Used to be Domino’s pizza was downright terrible, but they were the only big chain that delivered, so you were stuck with them if you didn’t want to get up off your fat ass and pick up a pizza yourself. Once Pizza Hut started delivery, their market share rose dramatically. And it was only a couple of years ago when Domino’s literally acknowledged in their own advertising that they used to make pretty bad pizza, but now they were moved to improve it.

And I have to agree with invictus. I ate a hell of a lot of Pizza Hut pizza twenty-five years ago. It pretty much tastes the same to me today.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:13:00 +0000

I delivered pizza for Pizza Hut for several years between 1988 and 1994, and the company always referred to the sit-down restaurants as Red-Roofs, as opposed to the Delivery/Carryout-only locations (which were often repurposed Winchell’s Donut shops in Southern California; one could always tell by the rounded-triangle sign out front).

I worked at a Carryout location, but down the block was a Red-Roof. it got sold several years back, and is now an independent Italian restaurant. They kept the distinctive roof shape, but painted it light brown, presumably so people wouldn’t mistake it for the Pizza Hut that occupied the building for several decades previously.

So I wouldn’t worry about rebuilding the roof, but repainting it might be in order.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Chrome is a corporate shill. Firefox doesn’t autocomplete pizzahu.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:08:00 +0000

Nooooooo! Their deadly team of Pizza Ninjas is probably on its way even as we speak. Type.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:00:00 +0000

I must be doing it wrong, all I’m getting is pictures of “Pizza the Hutt”. The postmortem photos after he ate himself to death are gross!

By: Mike Fischer

Mike Fischer — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:32:00 +0000

The email was pleasant and respectful. What more can you ask for?

By: Ean Moody

Ean Moody — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:30:00 +0000

But aren’t I now the intended recipient, since David put it on his blog (on which I am registered member).

By: social_maladroit

social_maladroit — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:50:00 +0000

That could happen, if you don’t pay back your debt to Jabba the Pizza Hutt.

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:48:00 +0000

yep

By: Carlos Cardoso

Carlos Cardoso — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:39:00 +0000

So, you write a post using their product, make sweet cash over it, and when they ask for a simple link love, you act douchy as hell and insert a nofollow?

By: Micah Seymour

Micah Seymour — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:39:00 +0000

As it’s Pizza Hut Canada that’s shilling the perfume shouldn’t that be http://pizzahut.ca/

And when do we Americans get crappy pizza with HOT DOG STUFFED CRUST?

By: gregarious

gregarious — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:19:00 +0000

”garlic aerosol” would be a great band name

By: comma splice

comma splice — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:12:00 +0000

I wonder if they were able to email Das Racist in time, before they broke up.
http://youtu.be/EQ8ViYIeH04