Pizza Hut

This place has great Chicken Milano! Pasta and cheese lovers have to try this. Décor isn’t disappointing either. I see the team here is small and works hard to deliver to expectations. I appreciate their effort on this.
This is my first review on Unilocal,ever. Seeing the low rating on this business’s page I had to write a review to keep things fair. I had reserved my first review for a long time to write reviews that are honest and based on multiple trials at a place.
I hate a few 1 star reviews that spoil the whole place’s charm. As a comment on an earlier review — «haters of food chain who want America to wake up, please stay away — support family businesses and don’t visit these places.»
I would rate this place on the following areas (the higher, the better):
Hospitality/​service: 8 — The waiters are helpful and will promptly answer your questions on food suggestions and choices.
Speed: 9 — They take the standard 15 – 20 minutes to serve pastas and pizzas, which is decent and dot on what they promise.
Taste: 9 — The quality of cheese that they use is very good. The cheese feels really fresh. And that fact makes their pizzas and pastas amazing. I would suggest do try one of the cheese lovers pizzas or the Chicken Alfredo/​Milano. Basically any thing that has cheese base. I would say it is to die for. The meat never tastes stale. It is tender and juicy just as I like it.
Menu: 7 — The menu is not as vast as other similar places, but it isn’t bad either. They have salads, wings, pizzas, pastas, soft drinks, lemonades and a few more (I guess)
Décor: 6 — Though the décor is not bad and comfortable, some people who don’t like dark places might find it gloomy. The washrooms are not the best in class either
Overall: 8.5 (not an average of any sort)
And that was my review (& rant) about things good and bad.

I was going to get a salad but the salad bar is just pathetic.

I understand they have good deals, but come on… America rocks Pizza, Pizza Hut on the other hand is so generic I can’t believe any red blooded American man (or woman) would consider coming here. I might expect this from the Northern Europeans, who don’t know what good Pizza is, but over here? Really?
I lived in Amherst for years and the kids I lived with forced me into getting Pizza from this location too many times for me to count.
Pizza Hut would be substandard in most towns. In New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh or Buffalo, which have the best pizza on earth, it’s an absolute insult to the word Pizza. It’s not the worst food you’ll ever eat, but there are at least 100 better Pizzerias in most Northern and North Eastern cities, all of them family owned.
I should mention, I only rate national and global chains on a scale of 1 – 2. I rate family businesses on a scale of 3 – 5. Here is why:
Would you rather support the local family, or the multi national corporations and the rich men on yachts in the Carribbean? Why are the parking lots of the awesome local Pizza places usually half empty (or completely empty)? Why are the national Pizza chains always so busy? Why can they afford to open so late and get all the TV advertising and all the prime intersection locations? Why are they taking over all the airports, stations, and rest stops? Why go and support Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Domino’s and so on? These places have systematically and coldly taken over the national Pizza scene by using the cheapest ingredients, pre-​packaged frozen systematic Italian food that is identical across the nation, ridiculously cheap prices for their overrated special deals, overpricing for everything else, rude underpaid servers on disgustingly low wages, bad hygeine, and a ridiculously expensive mass brand advertising campaign that gets inside the heads of all the kids and the 20somethings and keeps them under the illusion that if it’s not a brand name, it’s not worth visiting. They spend all the money they should be investing in food and service, in advertising and cornering the market — the local places can’t compete — and someday all we will be left with is the same chains serving the same food all over the world. That is our future. It’s the way we’re heading and you know it. Every time you eat at a bland national chain, you buy into that, you support that. Boycott chains. Support your local Pizza shops. It’s an embarrassment that generic brand national chains are even listed on a proper foodie website like Unilocal,let alone getting 4 and 5 stars from so called foodies. Wake up, America, before we’re all just batteries in the matrix.