An open letter to Pizza Hut
David C. Novak, Chairman
Scott Bergren, President
Pizza Hut, Inc.
7100 Corporate Drive
Plano, Texas 75024
Dear Sirs:
I would like to take a moment and tell you about my visit to a Pizza Hut store yesterday in Choluteca, Honduras. Let me start by thanking you for having a store in Choluteca, Honduras. For without it, my life would be a lot more depressing. Although I tried to stay away from fattening pizza in the states, I have now found myself at your Choluteca establishment more times in the last seven months than in the previous seven years. You see, I am a Peace Corps Volunteer in Southern Honduras, near Choluteca. Often times when PCV meet up and get together, we choose your fine establishment in order to take time away from the beans, rice, and tortillas that can become daily routine in our diet. Once I find myself at Pizza Hut, it’s like I am five years old again and suddenly gorging on every menu item available.
My two other volunteer friends found ourselves at the Choluteca Pizza Hut yesterday after taking a long hour bus ride, with no air conditioning, in the 90 degree weather, followed by a taxi. We decided to patronize your establishment in order to watch the NFL AFC and NFC playoff football games. We thoroughly understand that we live in soccer-loving, eating, breathing country and that yesterday was the Central American cup final, but with four TV’s in your restaurant, there was a glimmer of hope in our football loving hearts that we could watch the Green Bay Packers take on the Chicago Bears. This would be the only game we got to watch, since we had to catch a bus back to our small pueblo at 4:00 PM, before the Jets vs. Steelers came on. After sitting down, we were really excited when the manager told us it would not be a problem and he was happy to change the channel for us. It was our lucky day, why hadn’t we been coming here all season? But, as game time rolled around, and we began to flip through the channels, there was no football game to be found. Only channel after channel of soccer.
Now, I would like to know why an American restaurant that prides itself on being the food of American sports, and always has a commercial during the upcoming Superbowl, did not offer the NFL playoffs to be watched all across the world in its franchises. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I have given up a lot to live in another country, for two years. This includes a healthy lifestyle, seeing friends and family everyday, access to water and electricity 24/7, feeling homeless by the time we show up to your restaurant because our backpacks are so heavy and full of stuff, the list continues, so when I travel an hour on a bus, then take a taxi, to Pizza Hut (America’s Pizza), I want to watch football. Really, I don’t think I am asking too much. The restaurant is full of American’s anyway. Let me just add that we were three women who were trying to watch these playoffs; how many women in America do you think were trying to watch the football games yesterday, much less seeking it out in Honduras? Also, our entire bill was L600 which takes all three of us two days combined to make. This was a big splurge day for us.
Thanks for the cheesy bread and adios de Orocuina, Honduras-
Jenifer Bubenik
p.s. Maybe you just ultimately don’t give a crap, since I just went on your website and there is not even a space to comment on good or bad service from Honduras. Do you even know you have restaurants here?
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Scott Bergren, President
Pizza Hut, Inc.
7100 Corporate Drive
Plano, Texas 75024
Dear Sirs:
I would like to take a moment and tell you about my visit to a Pizza Hut store yesterday in Choluteca, Honduras. Let me start by thanking you for having a store in Choluteca, Honduras. For without it, my life would be a lot more depressing. Although I tried to stay away from fattening pizza in the states, I have now found myself at your Choluteca establishment more times in the last seven months than in the previous seven years. You see, I am a Peace Corps Volunteer in Southern Honduras, near Choluteca. Often times when PCV meet up and get together, we choose your fine establishment in order to take time away from the beans, rice, and tortillas that can become daily routine in our diet. Once I find myself at Pizza Hut, it’s like I am five years old again and suddenly gorging on every menu item available.
My two other volunteer friends found ourselves at the Choluteca Pizza Hut yesterday after taking a long hour bus ride, with no air conditioning, in the 90 degree weather, followed by a taxi. We decided to patronize your establishment in order to watch the NFL AFC and NFC playoff football games. We thoroughly understand that we live in soccer-loving, eating, breathing country and that yesterday was the Central American cup final, but with four TV’s in your restaurant, there was a glimmer of hope in our football loving hearts that we could watch the Green Bay Packers take on the Chicago Bears. This would be the only game we got to watch, since we had to catch a bus back to our small pueblo at 4:00 PM, before the Jets vs. Steelers came on. After sitting down, we were really excited when the manager told us it would not be a problem and he was happy to change the channel for us. It was our lucky day, why hadn’t we been coming here all season? But, as game time rolled around, and we began to flip through the channels, there was no football game to be found. Only channel after channel of soccer.
Now, I would like to know why an American restaurant that prides itself on being the food of American sports, and always has a commercial during the upcoming Superbowl, did not offer the NFL playoffs to be watched all across the world in its franchises. As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I have given up a lot to live in another country, for two years. This includes a healthy lifestyle, seeing friends and family everyday, access to water and electricity 24/7, feeling homeless by the time we show up to your restaurant because our backpacks are so heavy and full of stuff, the list continues, so when I travel an hour on a bus, then take a taxi, to Pizza Hut (America’s Pizza), I want to watch football. Really, I don’t think I am asking too much. The restaurant is full of American’s anyway. Let me just add that we were three women who were trying to watch these playoffs; how many women in America do you think were trying to watch the football games yesterday, much less seeking it out in Honduras? Also, our entire bill was L600 which takes all three of us two days combined to make. This was a big splurge day for us.
Thanks for the cheesy bread and adios de Orocuina, Honduras-
Jenifer Bubenik
p.s. Maybe you just ultimately don’t give a crap, since I just went on your website and there is not even a space to comment on good or bad service from Honduras. Do you even know you have restaurants here?
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