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They need to go back somehow to the innovating pizza aspect and maybe reduce or attenuate the sitdown aspext.
How have sitdown restuarants similar in caibre adapted—nay, changed and thrived—that you're aware of?
To what shall we compare them to? Both bad->good In terms of case studies or real life profiles in turnarounds
I'm not knowledgeable enough about the industry as a whole to really go much deeper, but I do know pizza faces some of the stiffest competition in the entire restaurant industry, which itself is unusually competitive.
Barriers to entry are minimal and profit margins are high compared to the rest of the industry. Even anecdotally, pizza places are everywhere, and pizza is a fairly cheap food.
I actually can't think of a good parallel. Pizza is a pretty unique dish, from a culinary-economic standpoint. It's deeply beloved, ingredients are very low cost, labor input is minimal, necessary physical footprint is small.
If I were them, I'd try leaning into the physical locations, pushing a little bit into Chuck E Cheese territory, but quieter. Try to get like, DnD groups and study groups to use your space for their get togethers, and sell them food while they're there. It'd be a marketing shift more than anything else.
Shit man. Dnd at a pizza hut would be dope as hell. Leaning into the third space aspect sounds like a great idea.
That was my thought. They could also install some arcade games, sell beer, be a venue for local arts, stuff like that. Basically a pivot from family-friendly food place to hip hang-out spot for nostalgic millennials wanting a more grown-up version of Chuck E Cheese.
If they could pull this off, it'd turn their biggest current disadvantage (all that expensive square footage they're sitting on) into an advantage for them.
A self-sustaining economy more Like Dave&Busterz???
At one point near me was a pizza hut that was jut pickup and delivery. It had no dining room really and seemed more like a dominoes or little ceasars.