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UnfairRepresent
10/28/19 8:14:03 PM
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Pizza Hut will introduce a limited-time test of a plant-based pizza topping served up in a round pizza box.

The test of both innovations will take place exclusively at one Pizza Hut location in Phoenix where Americas Original Pizza Company will introduce the new Garden Specialty Pizza topped with Incogmeato by MorningStar Farms Italian sausage.

At Pizza Hut we dont do anything halfway and improving the customer experience and delivering a better tasting pizza is our core mission, said Marianne Radley, chief brand officer, Pizza Hut. When we talk about feeding more possibilities we mean itand I cant wait to share these two new industry-changing innovations with our customers.

Pizza Hut partnered with Zume, a company pioneering the shift to a more sustainable future of food, to design a way to put a round pizza in a round box. Not only does the round box contain less overall packaging compared to a typical square pizza box, its also industrially compostable (where available) and interlocks easily to ensure a smoother delivery. In other words, no pizza insurance policy needed and freed up space in the fridge for leftovers.

Following the event in Phoenix, Pizza Hut will look at ways to roll the box out more widely in the near future.

This revolutionary round boxthe result of a two-year journeyis the most innovative packaging weve rolled out to date, said Nicolas Burquier, chief customer and operations officer, Pizza Hut. The round box was engineered to make our products taste even betterby delivering hotter, crispier pizzas. This box is a win-winit will improve the pizza-eating experience for our customers and simplify the operating experience for our team members.

Additionally, this limited-time test run of the plant-based Italian sausage Garden Specialty Pizza topping will feature Incogmeato Italian sausage, onions, mushrooms and banana peppers and will be served exclusively on Pizza Huts large, hand-tossed crust.

Customers in the Phoenix area were encouraged to stop in at the Pizza Hut restaurant located at 3602 E. Thomas Rd to be among the first to try the limited-run Garden Specialty Pizza, served in the new round box featuring Pizza Huts green roof logo, on October 23rd. The new product combo was sold for $10 and was available in-store only. All proceeds raised from the sale of the round box pies during the one-day event were donated to Arizona Forward, a Phoenix-based sustainability organization.


Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pizza-hut-is-testing-new-round-pizza-box/
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TheVipaGTS
10/28/19 8:14:55 PM
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It'll also keep the Pizza in place....why did no on else ever decide to do this?

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lilORANG
10/28/19 8:16:28 PM
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About fucking time. I've always wondered why nobody does this.
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R1masher
10/28/19 8:20:13 PM
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Thats not a box!
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hockeybub89
10/28/19 8:23:37 PM
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UnfairRepresent
10/28/19 8:23:40 PM
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lilORANG posted...
About fucking time. I've always wondered why nobody does this.

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SiO4
10/28/19 8:28:49 PM
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Cool, Next they might contemplate making good pizza!!

Sorry, had to do it.
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HylianFox
10/28/19 8:30:08 PM
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Incogmeato


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EffectAndCause
10/28/19 8:31:22 PM
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I assume circle boxes are more expensive and more difficult to make.
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I Like Toast
10/28/19 8:34:29 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
t of a plant-based pizza topping served up
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Rida_Go_To_Bed
10/28/19 8:35:03 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
It'll also keep the Pizza in place....why did no on else ever decide to do this?

lilORANG posted...
About fucking time. I've always wondered why nobody does this.


This is exactly what I was thinking. What a simple innovation, assuming the box is well made. No worries about your fresh out of the oven pizza's toppings flying around the place
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10/28/19 8:35:53 PM
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tri sapphire
10/28/19 8:36:42 PM
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EffectAndCause posted...
I assume circle boxes are more expensive and more difficult to make.

This. Unless you're using a plastic of some kind.

But then the trade off is more expensive compostable plastic vs cardboard that's cheaper and probably already composts better anyways.
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MabusIncarnate
10/28/19 8:38:25 PM
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What about all those guys out there that are professional box folders, and compete in that shit. DID WE THINK ABOUT THEM?!

No let's think about the fucking planet instead, those guys don't matter. You can't fold a circle.

I'm so mad.
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I Like Toast
10/28/19 8:38:54 PM
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Rida_Go_To_Bed posted...


This is exactly what I was thinking. What a simple innovation, assuming the box is well made. No worries about your fresh out of the oven pizza's toppings flying around the place
except the box is going to be larger than the pizza and still have room to slide just like a square box, only now instead of resting flat against w/e you call the delievery bag things, it's going to have the potential to rotate with each speedy turn the driver/you make on the way to your home.

not to mention limited if any saving of the cardboard since you aren't going to be able to cut it in such a way that there isn't any waste.


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Damn_Underscore
10/28/19 9:03:43 PM
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industrially compostable (where available)


so in most places it's made out of plastic
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BeyondWalls
10/28/19 9:06:15 PM
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Damn_Underscore posted...
industrially compostable (where available)


so in most places it's made out of plastic

Yuck. Boooo Pizza Hut! Booooo!
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Irony
10/28/19 9:09:22 PM
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Pointless idea
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UnfairRepresent
10/29/19 3:49:46 AM
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Irony posted...
Pointless idea

What makes you say that?
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Jagermeister513
10/29/19 3:50:44 AM
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Pizza Hut has been trash ever since they stopped being restaurants.
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FuneralFroth
10/29/19 3:53:54 AM
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Makes sense. Right now we have circle pizzas cut into triangles served in square boxes.
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teepan95
10/29/19 4:22:34 AM
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I Like Toast posted...
not to mention limited if any saving of the cardboard since you aren't going to be able to cut it in such a way that there isn't any waste.

This waste will be much easier to recycle than a used pizza box, due to not being clogged up with grease. It's limited, but it's there
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Medzzz
10/29/19 4:30:24 AM
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Whats next put square pizzas in circle boxes?
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UnfairRepresent
10/29/19 4:58:31 AM
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Medzzz posted...
Whats next put square pizzas in circle boxes?

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Shablagoo
10/29/19 5:00:54 AM
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Call me when they invent dehydrated pizzas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9U2ekOVL5Q" data-time="

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Wolf_J_Flywheel
10/29/19 8:06:18 AM
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Carrying a stack of round boxes will be a problem. With square ones you can hold the front corners and pull the boxes against your torso.
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gloBal enemy
10/29/19 8:16:59 AM
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1. Aren't round/circular boxes a hugely inefficient use of space (since they no longer stack neatly)?
2. Wouldn't it have been better to just make square pizzas to fit the square boxes? (and encourage people to buy these)?

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thanosibe
10/29/19 9:36:53 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
What about all those guys out there that are professional box folders, and compete in that shit. DID WE THINK ABOUT THEM?!

No let's think about the fucking planet instead, those guys don't matter. You can't fold a circle.

I'm so mad.
This reminds me of that My Name Is Earl episode where Earl competes in that professional bagging competition to scratch someone off his list. Funny stuff.

Irony posted...
Pointless idea
I lol'd

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Ricemills
10/29/19 9:43:40 AM
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why not just use hexagonal box?
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Dyinglegacy
10/29/19 9:45:17 AM
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This is a grave offense

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DevsBro
10/29/19 9:45:58 AM
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This is discrimination

I want a round box but it's only for vegetarians
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Letron_James
10/29/19 9:48:45 AM
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Will probably save them hundreds of thousands in cardboard costs tbh

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pogo_rabid
10/29/19 9:53:24 AM
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Shablagoo posted...
Call me when they invent dehydrated pizzas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9U2ekOVL5Q" data-time="

I forgot how gross that pizza looked.
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Dyinglegacy
10/29/19 2:47:23 PM
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What are we supposed to call this affront to god?

Circular cardboard pizza container?

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hockeybub89
10/29/19 2:52:29 PM
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DevsBro posted...
This is discrimination

I want a round box but it's only for vegetarians

Uh I think these are two separate ideas that they are testing out together
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LightHawKnight
10/29/19 2:52:51 PM
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A box stops a pizza from moving already and is cheaper.
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IShall_Run_Amok
10/29/19 2:54:40 PM
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But my childhood.
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eston
10/29/19 2:54:51 PM
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Ricemills posted...
why not just use hexagonal box?

I'm curious as to what benefit that would have over round boxes
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southcoast09
10/29/19 2:55:19 PM
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Then your pizza costs more because it takes more to buy these things.
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eston
10/29/19 2:59:17 PM
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southcoast09 posted...
Then your pizza costs more because it takes more to buy these things.

If you have actual numbers to compare then by all means share them with us, otherwise you're just making a pretty big assumption here
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HylianFox
10/29/19 2:59:36 PM
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why not just make square pizzas
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LightHawKnight
10/29/19 3:00:59 PM
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eston posted...
southcoast09 posted...
Then your pizza costs more because it takes more to buy these things.

If you have actual numbers to compare then by all means share them with us, otherwise you're just making a pretty big assumption here


While the major reason they use square boxes cause it is easier to store and assemble, a circle box takes more effort to make and therefore costs more.
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Gafemage
10/29/19 3:01:52 PM
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Dont mess with tradition....
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eston
10/29/19 3:05:57 PM
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LightHawKnight posted...
eston posted...
southcoast09 posted...
Then your pizza costs more because it takes more to buy these things.

If you have actual numbers to compare then by all means share them with us, otherwise you're just making a pretty big assumption here


While the major reason they use square boxes cause it is easier to store and assemble, a circle box takes more effort to make and therefore costs more.

That certainly may be true, but I see no indication of it in this article. Do you think Pizza Hut, a company which has been in business for decades, doesnt know that its customers would balk at a price hike for new boxes? I'd wager they will cost about the same.
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LightHawKnight
10/29/19 3:07:26 PM
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eston posted...
LightHawKnight posted...
eston posted...
southcoast09 posted...
Then your pizza costs more because it takes more to buy these things.

If you have actual numbers to compare then by all means share them with us, otherwise you're just making a pretty big assumption here


While the major reason they use square boxes cause it is easier to store and assemble, a circle box takes more effort to make and therefore costs more.

That certainly may be true, but I see no indication of it in this article. Do you think Pizza Hut, a company which has been in business for decades, doesnt know that its customers would balk at a price hike for new boxes? I'd wager they will cost about the same.


The price difference is probable a few cents, and people are really dumb, so anything can happen.
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lightwarrior78
10/29/19 3:11:16 PM
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A local family owned place has been doing that for 20+ years. Maybe the Hut can rip off their other innovation: quality ingredients.
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BeyondWalls
10/29/19 8:01:26 PM
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teepan95 posted...
I Like Toast posted...
not to mention limited if any saving of the cardboard since you aren't going to be able to cut it in such a way that there isn't any waste.

This waste will be much easier to recycle than a used pizza box, due to not being clogged up with grease. It's limited, but it's there

NOPE. You can NOT recycle food contaminated items. Even if you theoritcally wash it out, the recycle place probably won't inspect it. They'll just trash it, and maybe trash everything it came in with as well. All these things will end up in the dump.
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gloBal enemy
10/29/19 9:53:17 PM
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eston posted...
That certainly may be true, but I see no indication of it in this article. Do you think Pizza Hut, a company which has been in business for decades, doesnt know that its customers would balk at a price hike for new boxes? I'd wager they will cost about the same.


Probably a few cents here and there which would be not worthwhile passing on and hence would be borne by the unfortunate franchisee.

And I dont have any proof they cost more but given the abundance of square boxes and the logic it would require changes to production facilities to accommodate round containers, I dont think it would be cheaper. Presumably they still are flat packed for optimising shipment to stores but I wonder if assembly is faster or easier to help offset the cost in manufacture or storage.

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