Rob's Blog

Pythagoras Hut
Mar 5th 2007 23:03

“Buy two pizza's and get the second pizza half price.”It's a pretty good deal from Pizza Hut, it's not the most original offer, but it works. Thankfully Pizza Hut in Brighton and Hove have put their own spin on the takeaway deal to make it a bit unique. There own nifty mathematical twist. So when is a good deal on pizza not a good deal? Well, when you spend too long specifying the second pizza. And then it's not half price. Yes, that's right. Pizza Hut truly excelled itself with that one. We ordered a pizza, hung up, realized we should have ordered two, so phoned back 20 seconds later to add the second pizza to the order. We were then told that because we hadn't ordered them at the same time we couldn't get the second pizza half price. Well... that hardly seemed like a fair deal. On further questioning we were told that it “wouldn't go through the system”. We suggested that he canceled the first order, and put in a new order. For two pizzas. With the second one being half price. Surely that was possible? Following much denial that this was a reasonable course of action we were then told that they could cancel, and had now canceled, the first order... the catch? That that we wouldn't be able to get another order delivered to that address because we'd been logged as canceling an order. The result? We ordered from Dominoes, because they weren't being mind numbingly stupid. Pizza Hut lost the order, and the six of us that were there will enjoy laughing at their expense for years to come. Why not apply for a job with Pizza Hut, I'm sure you'll find it fullfilling to have so much control ;)