Pizza Hut is to remove all self-service salad carts from its 440 restaurants in China. Up to now, customers were permitted just one trip to the salad cart, but these restrictions have led to ingenious Scooby snack-style stacking of CCTV Tower proportions. The chain, the first to introduce pizza to China in 1990 and pizza delivery in 2001, claims that the move is part of a general menu expansion, but it's surely down to salad cart abuse.
Pretty funny, though I’m sure barely anyone would have been doing this other than to make meme photos for social media.
They’ll be stopping it for the same reason most Pizza Huts in the US stopped doing it - profit. Not in the sense that people abusing the salad bar costs money - that’s just a convenient excuse - but simply because it takes a lot to keep a salad bar well stocked and fresh, and they did the maths and figured they can make more if all they sell is pizza.
My dad used to do the same thing back when Wendy’s still had a salad bar. He and my mom would get a full meal out of one bowl and he was a big dude (230lb 6’3” construction worker big).
We used to joke that he was why Wendy’s nixed the salad bars.
They’ll be stopping it for the same reason most Pizza Huts in the US stopped doing it - profit.
We have unlimited salad included as part of the price of the meal in the UK. I’ve never gone back for seconds because I’m there for pizza.
When I was a student, they had a one bowl rule and students did try to cram in as much as they could by building towers like in the article (but nowhere near as impressive).
It’s like if you put a restriction on it then people will try to bend the rules to get more but if it’s unlimited then there’s no challenge.
Or it could be that students wanted to eat as much as possible for their money.
Pretty funny, though I’m sure barely anyone would have been doing this other than to make meme photos for social media.
They’ll be stopping it for the same reason most Pizza Huts in the US stopped doing it - profit. Not in the sense that people abusing the salad bar costs money - that’s just a convenient excuse - but simply because it takes a lot to keep a salad bar well stocked and fresh, and they did the maths and figured they can make more if all they sell is pizza.
My dad used to do the same thing back when Wendy’s still had a salad bar. He and my mom would get a full meal out of one bowl and he was a big dude (230lb 6’3” construction worker big).
We used to joke that he was why Wendy’s nixed the salad bars.
We have unlimited salad included as part of the price of the meal in the UK. I’ve never gone back for seconds because I’m there for pizza.
When I was a student, they had a one bowl rule and students did try to cram in as much as they could by building towers like in the article (but nowhere near as impressive).
It’s like if you put a restriction on it then people will try to bend the rules to get more but if it’s unlimited then there’s no challenge.
Or it could be that students wanted to eat as much as possible for their money.
Supermarkets exploit that behaviour by displaying per-person limits on merchandise. E.g. “limit 5 per person”.
It works.
You criminally underestimate the audacity of grab hags.