Pizza Hut - Clarks Summit, PA
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The Pizza Hut Buffet in May Not Have Had the Best Pizza, but I'll Always Miss the Place!
I always take a lot of heat from readers when I review chain
restaurants, and I’m sure I’ll get some negative press for this one as well,
but there is a method to my madness!
Today, I decided to visit the Pizza Hut lunch buffet in Clarks Summit –
a place where I’ve visited numerous times since I was eating my free “Book-It” personal pan pizza with a
wearing Umbro shorts, a BUM equipment sweatshirt and rocking a mushroom haircut
as a kid. Although I have fond childhood
memories of Pizza Hut, I have to be honest, I do wonder how this place is still
in business because it is almost never busy, but for me that’s a good thing
because I know I’ll be getting quick service which moves me in and out the door
and on with my day. As soon as I walked
in, I noticed something that would make Robert Irvine’s stomach churn. It appeared as if someone set up their office
in the dining room and had paperwork spread out on the first table I saw in the
front of the dining room. It certainly
was not unsanitary, but I’d call this a definite no-no in a restaurant I was
running, but at least the table I was seated at was clean and free of
debris.
On this day, I elected to go with the pizza lunch buffet, even
though I hesitated because it wasn’t well stocked up and had a lot of bare
space on it, which was unusual because it’s normally full of a variety of
pizzas. At one point, I noticed only 2
slices of pizza on the entire buffet. On
today’s menu there was plain, bacon and sausage, ham, hot wing (at one point), and
breadsticks. As sparsely stocked as it
was, you can’t really beat the price at $5.95 for all you can eat which
includes the salad bar.
I tried the plain slice first, and noticed that familiar
Pizza Hut taste – sweet and bitter sauce which was a bit too pasty for my liking,
a greasy crust, and the usual flavorless cheese. Put all together, the taste of the pizza
isn’t all that bad, there was nothing that stood out on the plain slice. The crust was not as crispy on the bottom as
I’m accustomed to, but it was nice and fluffy and was cooked thoroughly. The bacon and sausage slice was much better
because the meat provided the flavor and masked the bitter sauce a bit. The bacon was crispy, which I liked, and the
meat didn’t add any additional greasiness, which was appreciated. The hot wing pizza was actually pretty
good. It had generous chunks of chicken,
an appropriate amount of hot sauce that provided a good contrast with the dough
and cheese, and overall had a decent flavor.
Fortunately, Pizza Hut offered my all-time favorite bread
sticks on the buffet. I could eat them
all day long, but for my own health I did not over-indulge. I was anxious to try the cinnamon sticks and
cherry cobbler pizza that they usually have for desert, but unfortunately they
never came out. Overall, the buffet is a
good value on most days, when it’s well stocked and you are looking for
something different for lunch. At the
end of the day, I only paid six bucks and left with a very full belly, and I
think that’s all that Pizza Hut is trying to accomplish here. Their pizza has never wowed me, except when I
got done reading my tenth “Book-It” book and got my free personal pan
pizza! Anyway, the strength of this deal
is the speedy service, unlimited pizza, salad, and breadsticks, and strong value,
so for those reasons I do recommend the Pizza Hut lunch buffet, but I can’t
give the pizza itself very high marks as it's the same old standard pie from decades ago.Restaurant: Pizza Hut
Location: Clarks Summit, PA
Date: February 2013
Pizza Ordered: Pizza and Salad Lunch Buffet
Price: $5.95
Eat In/Take Out: Eat In
Crust: 3/5Location: Clarks Summit, PA
Date: February 2013
Pizza Ordered: Pizza and Salad Lunch Buffet
Price: $5.95
Eat In/Take Out: Eat In
Sauce: 1.25/5
Cheese: 1.25/5
Overall Taste: 2.5/5
Crispy/Cooked Properly: 3.5/5
Overall Value: 5/5
OVERALL RATING: 2.5/5
