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gorickey · Jul 2, 2002, 12:24 AM

Damn it's good food....let's here everybody's favorite "Pizza Shuttle" story.....

Tigerabbit · Jul 2, 2002, 12:36 AM

There are three of them here in Norman.

The Eastside one is constantly on the edge of being shut down by the county Health Department. The other two (Campus and Brookhaven) are okay.

The menu and food suppliers vary from one locale to the next. What is great in one place may totally suck in another.

My favorite story is from January 1999. At the time, I was working for the Brookhaven Pizza Shuttle. The Eastside store was shut down by the Health Department for numerous violations, including failure to use sanitizer in dishwashing and cans of pesticide being stored in the cooler with the food. During the day, the other two stores had to divide Eastside's delivery area. At night, after the Health Department closed for the day, the Eastside store would open back up, acting like it was business as usual. This went on for four days, before the Health Department gave them the go ahead to "open back up".

gorickey · Jul 2, 2002, 12:38 AM

I haven't had the ones in Norman yet....I went to the one in Stillwater a couple of times (by the way, GO POKES!....had to get that in there) but I think it closed recently because it couldn't compete with Hideaway I assuming.

Thanks for the post!

Tigerabbit · Jul 2, 2002, 01:11 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by gorickey:
�I think it closed recently because it couldn't compete with Hideaway I assuming.�<hr /></blockquote>Hideaway is so much more expensive than Shuttle that they're almost not competing. Hideaway is most expensive pizza place I've ever seen. The one here charges $18.75 for a large specialty pizza, compared with $14.99 for Pizza Hut and $12.99 for Papa John's.

If the Stillwater one closed, it's probably more likely due to poor management than anything else. Pizza Shuttle franchises have the most leeway of any franchised restaurant business, and that leeway is a two-edged sword. More freedom of operation means less support if it's not operated properly. The small customer base of Stillwater (about 30k people) means that mistakes count more heavily than they would in a larger city, ie you ire a greater percentage of your customers with one mistake.

Hmmm, maybe I oughta put together some money, nah, I don't want to move to Stillwater.

CaseCom · Jul 2, 2002, 01:20 AM

No "Pizza Shuttle" here. Is it an Oklahoma thing?

There was a Pizza Shuttle in Milwaukee when I lived there but I don't think it was part of a chain. Good greasy pizza.

Tigerabbit · Jul 2, 2002, 01:46 AM

I know of one in Manhattan KS and Santa Fe NM, so it's not just Oklahoma.

<a href="http://www.pizzashuttle.com" target="_blank">www.pizzashuttle.com</a> brings up the one in Milwaukee WI.

Google seems to have found one in Germany. <img src="http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/forums/graemlins/surprised.gif" alt=" - " />

gorickey · Jul 2, 2002, 09:29 AM

The Manhattan, KS one is AWESOME....the most popular place to eat in Manhattan it seems. However, I have been to the one in Milwaukee as well and it's a totally different chain, and I found it to be awful.

Lawrence, KS has two I believe and so does Colubmia, MO....maybe a Big 12 thing? It's smart to have in every college town, it's totally a college pizza place for sure.

pdjr · Jul 2, 2002, 11:26 AM

When I was at OU, I lived off their pizza and a coke deal. It was $3.20. Good times indeed.

gorickey · Jul 2, 2002, 12:30 PM

Same here, it's cheaper then even McD's, pretty awesome!

MikeM32 · Jul 2, 2002, 04:44 PM

Never heard of Pizza Shuttle until now. A google search seems to reveal they're mostly located out in the mid-west/central part of the country. We've basically got Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, and Little Caesars. There's also a place called Pizzaria Uno which is a franchise and a slight step-up from the Pizza Hut type places. ' Uno's is probably fairly close to what this Pizza Shuttle is like (at least after reading the description of the Milwaulkee one).

I actually find that Pizza Hut and most of the franchised places don't make as good a pizza as the local "mom 'n pop" type places around here (there's like 1 per square mile where I live). Plus the mom 'n pop places are cheaper at like $7-$9 for a large cheese pizza versus the $12-$15 for a large at someplace like Pizza Hut. I'm also more of a fan of the New York style (thin crust) versus the Chicago style which is just too thick for my tastes.

I do occasionally get the craving for a Pizza Hut or Papa Johns style pizza (maybe like once per year), and usually wind up regretting it after eating it.

Mike

Zytryx · Jul 2, 2002, 06:10 PM

No, but i've heard of a grease shuttle