Whats their deal nowadays?

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago
    • Dave and Busterz
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    I’d agree usually but the two mentioned seem perpetually commercially evergreen tho.

    Whats stopping PH from joining them. Respectfully, kindly fight me on that point if you’ll indulge for a moment…

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      1 month ago

      chuckycheese is still around? both those had video games right so is their main thing pizza or they offer video games and the pizza is secondary. is dave and busterz even have pizza? im confused.

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        D&B is a bar with an arcade and ok food. I think they have pizza, been a long time since I’ve been there.

        They really aren’t comparable to Pizza Hut, which billed itself as a family place.

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      1 month ago

      Those are kids places (Well, Chuckies is, D&B is an arcade with food, not just pizza), already exist, have a reputation.

      Trying to pivot a long-standing, contracting business to compete in a saturated market doesn’t seem like a smart model.

      Lots of PH locations have closed - so many of their buildings are now something else.

      I think it’s just a market segment that really has been waning for decades. I haven’t been to a Pizza Hut since high school, and I’m not admitting how long ago that was.

      I’d also argue that D&B isn’t doing as well as it did in the 90’s when they were expanding and always busy.