Dec 22, 2003 04:51 PM
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(Updated Dec 22, 2003 04:52 PM)
Pizza Hut! The name that is associated with pizza all over the globe. The company has been rated the best pizza chain in the US for 10 out of the last 12 years. Sounds Great?
It sure does, but wait.
Go to the desi versions in our very own Bombay and take a seat. The table will have cards displaying a pizza or two. The walls too might be adorned with pictures of steamy hot pizzas. All around you is the appetizing aroma of melting cheese.
That’s about all you’ll get.
A slab of bread, a load of cheese, aroma and yes a stiff bill!
The pizza at Pizza Hut has little or no resemblance to the pictures they publish in their ads, shops, on their menus etc. The chicken pizza you saw while ordering had about 100 pieces of chicken on a 10-inch pizza, right? So you should get about 90, at the least? Right! I know I am exaggerating, but get the point?
Now wait until you actually get the pizza that is tailor made specially for you on a fresh baked base, no less.
The pizza you get will in all probability have about a fourth of the number of chicken pieces displayed. I took large bites of the slice on my plate and kept finding gobs of cheese and bread in my mouth, albeit chicken flavored. The aroma of chicken was all about me BUT there was no chicken in sight. I guess the same goes for pieces of paneer as well. Now, I know all such ad’s and point-of-purchase pictures are exaggerated, but to what extent?
In half the expensive pizza I ate, I got two small sugar cube size pieces of chicken! In half a pizza!
It was staggering to say the least. The guys who served me had no answers for me other than making bland faces at me and staring accusingly at the pizza as though they had put the pieces in and I had somehow spirited them away.
That was the first and the last time I went to a Pizza Hut. The bread and cheese served there is very expensive. Good for fondue lovers.
