Pizza or Pasta Hut?
By Stacy / Spinebreakers Crew
Isn't it just fulfilling when your day goes your way? For once the world isn't against you and you have the slightest inkling that perhaps there is someone up there after all (so much for being an Atheist).
Okay maybe it isn't fair to compare my instance of luck being on my side to getting served quickly in Pizza Hut as it's really not that significant... But anyway, on the topic of Pizza Hut what is going on there? Walking up to the 'Hut you're lulled into the false pretence that Pizza Hut is still, well, Pizza Hut and not the Pasta Hut that of late it seems inevitable it will turn into in. Yet once inside you're shown a menu clearly labelling Pasta Hut and, after being informed of the various array of new pasta dishes on offer, you're thrown off course whether this is more about stuffed crust or stuffed tortellini.
Well, this brings me conveniently on to healthy eating; as an ethical tactic Pizza/Pasta hut are taking this new stance on the name we've all loved for 50 years in order to appear more healthy to the generation that, from recent survey results, eat more pasta than pizza. More importantly, it seems to me that this idea has been implemented to generate hyped-up publicity to get everyone talking and of course it's working, who's the one giving them publicity at the moment?
But to divert slightly, this got me thinking along the lines of healthy eating: what is healthy? By now we are probably all aware of the Government's guidelines for '5 a day' and I've lost count of the number of initiatives within school to encourage us to meet this golden number, yet it's debatable whether the stress upon eating healthy creates a diverse effect; in the creation of eating disorders, especially among the generation of young girls who have enough social pressures as it is.
So, that brings me back to the topic of the re-branding of Pizza Hut; my opinion is that they should leave it as it is, if we want pizza we'll have it and no fancy £100m re launch campaign will change our mind. If we don't put as much pressure on telling people what they shouldn't be eating then maybe, just maybe, we'll subconsciously begin eating our greens and consuming less of the 'bad' stuff and then we'll all achieve divine happiness.