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Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
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Pizza Hut and Donatos around here both have approximately 5 customers a day. Me and my wife are sure they're both fonts for money laundering.
I drove for a backwater dominos in rural NC. You could work an entire Saturday night shift (with 1 or 2 other drivers) and only end up taking 5 deliveries.
During day shifts It would be so dead that I would leave the store for hours (while clocked in! lol) to run errands, browse thrift stores or grocery shop. The manager would text me if there was an order.
It's still open too.
Sounds like a dream job lol
We have some restaurants like that here. Always empty, somehow manage to survive while restaurants all around them close, open as something else and close again etc.
There used to be a place at a local shopping center that was all glass and mirrors and was staffed by very serious young Asian men in sharp suits.
They sold - and only sold - boutique toffee apples.
I knew a guy who went to prison for 8 years for running a drug delivery service out of a pizza franchise. Word got out, he got popular, then arrested. Lol.
In my area that's Arby's, tons of commercials, tons of locations, never seen more than a single customer in the drive through at all hours of the day. Every restaurant around them within the same strip will be packed full, drive through line 20 deep, Arbys just sitting there with nothing.
Close ... tax write offs. Failing businesses are actually a big business.
Donatos?
They sell pizza. In all seriousness though, I never looked up their past to know how big the chain was. Wikipedia shows a pretty rocky past where they keep trying to expand, but the management is just too shitty. Including being sold to McDonald's for a couple years.
Every time we try it again it's always burnt or undercooked or wrong... Like, you had 4 customers today including us, and you fucked it up. No wonder the parking lot is empty.
Apparently they've started selling mostly at Red Robin, which I don't imagine will go over too well either. Want a $30 thin crust with your $25 burger and fries? Why is my business going nowhere? Has to be a laundering scheme somewhere along the line.
They opened one a few years ago here in SC. It was in a strip mall that was just 3 restaurants all owned by the same guy (the Donatos, his own private restaurant, and a Salsaritas).
After about a year he moved the Donatos menu to the restaurant, made it a drive through only for pickup, and expanded the restaurant bar into the old Donatos dining room.
I've seen them here in the PNW and they're everywhere in Ohio (Columbus based chain).
And yeah they're slightly more expensive than I'd like, which is a shame as they're the closest thing to Cassanos you can get outside Dayton.