Tracy Lyn

Pizza Hut corporate spent seven years killing the exact thing this guy is bringing back. And his stores are now some of the busiest in the entire chain. Tim Sparks, President of Daland Corporation, is converting 80 Pizza Hut locations to the original 1980s format. Red cups. Salad bars. Stained glass lamps. Pac-Man machines. Vinyl booths. His first job was as a Pizza Hut dishwasher. The Classics are massively outperforming standard Pizza Huts. Customers drive two to three hours to eat there. A single Facebook post about one Classic location in Pennsylvania got 7,500 shares and broke onto TikTok overnight. Meanwhile, corporate is doing the exact opposite. 250 store closures planned for first half of 2026. "Red Roof" dine-in franchises no longer offered to new operators. Yum Brands is considering selling the entire chain. No obvious buyer. The decline numbers are brutal. Pizza Hut held 25% of U.S. pizza market share in 1995. Today: under 14%. In 2019, half of traditional stores were still dine-in, but 90% of revenue came from off-premises orders. Corporate saw the mismatch and decided to eliminate the dine-in format entirely. Convert everything to delivery boxes. Compete with Domino's on logistics. The problem with that strategy: Domino's is a technology company that happens to sell pizza. Their competitive advantage is order tracking, delivery optimization, and franchise efficiency. When Pizza Hut stripped out the booths, the salad bar, the lamps, and the experience, they became a worse Domino's. A typical Pizza Hut location now generates 20% less revenue than the average across the other four major pizza chains. Their biggest franchisee went bankrupt in 2020 and closed 300 stores. Total sales haven't grown since 2004. Twenty-two years of stagnation. And a former dishwasher is adding salad bars and Pac-Man machines, and people are driving across state lines. The Friday night with your family in a vinyl booth under a stained glass lamp while the kids played arcade games and loaded up plates at the salad bar. That was always what Pizza Hut was selling. Corporate optimized it off the balance sheet. One franchisee who grew up inside the original version understood what the spreadsheet couldn't measure.

@RepJackKimble 200k for an average of 2.69 hours a week. Go fuck yourself.

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

@PatriciaHeaton And…….you can still get them where I live…….YUM!!

Truth

@joeroganhq @neiltyson hasn’t done anything that Charlie Brown hasn’t already done.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Elon Musk hasn't done anything that NASA hasn't already done."

@MarioNawfal @elonmusk I responded to a post about @krassenstein being a hypocrite after running his mouth about @elonmusk and now acting like choosing one is only for noble reasons. I hope HIS is keyed. Settle the fuck down @overreactors

@MarioNawfal @elonmusk So, a liberal can break the banning protocol just because he wants a cool truck, I mean a safe truck for his family? I hope someone keys it on every single panel.

One of Elon's most vocal critics just bought a Cybertruck. Brian Krassenstein, who has spent years publicly clashing with @elonmusk, announced the purchase yesterday. His reason had nothing to do with politics. He has a young family and the Cybertruck is the only pickup truck in America to hold both an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award and a perfect 5-star NHTSA rating simultaneously. When your fiercest critics are buying your product because the data leaves them no choice, that's a different kind of win.

@EchoesofWarYT @michaelrulli Has someone alerted @Shanemgillis?

Most people picture Martha Washington as a quiet woman in a bonnet, pouring tea while George won a war. The real woman was something else entirely. She was 5 feet tall. George was 6'2". When they married in 1759, she was a 27-year-old widow with two small children, and the richest woman in Virginia. She brought 17,500 acres and roughly 84 enslaved people to the marriage. George Washington didn't make her wealthy. She made him wealthy. When the Revolutionary War broke out, she didn't stay home. For 8 straight winters, every single year of the war, Martha left Mount Vernon and traveled hundreds of miles by carriage, through territory crawling with British soldiers and Loyalists, to spend the freezing months in army camp with George. She was at Morristown. Cambridge. Newburgh. Middlebrook. And Valley Forge. In 1776 she got herself inoculated against smallpox in Philadelphia, a procedure that killed plenty of people who tried it, so she could keep traveling to the front. While there, she sewed shirts for soldiers, organized the other officers' wives to mend uniforms, and walked through the camps visiting the sick and dying. By the time the war ended she had buried both of her surviving children. Patsy died of epilepsy at 17. Jacky died of camp fever right after Yorktown. She raised two of his orphaned kids at Mount Vernon. She hated being First Lady. In a private letter she described her own life as that of a "state prisoner." She wasn't being cute. She meant it. When George died in December 1799, Martha did something historians have been mourning ever since. She sat down at the fireplace and burned nearly every letter they had ever written each other. Forty years of marriage. Gone. Only three letters survived. She lived two more years. Then, quietly, she freed George's enslaved people about a year before her own death, reportedly because she had grown uneasy about so many people having a personal incentive to wish her dead. In 1886, the U.S. Treasury put her face on the $1 silver certificate. She is, to this day, the only woman ever featured on American paper currency. Almost no one alive has ever seen the bill. Almost no one alive knows any of this. That's Martha Washington.

@mattrife Is this the little guy’s Make-A-Wish day?

It’s not so lonely at the top… ⛰️

Don’t get all spun up about everything. Nothing is that bad. I’m on an ISIS hit-list, for crying out loud, and I literally just ate a pound of carrot cake. Fuck ISIS.

@SenSchumer You’re one of them, aren’t you?

For decades, UFO disclosure has been a distant object — unidentified and unexplained. That’s starting to change. I’ll keep pushing until we land on the truth.

@rogertansey @MarioNawfal @elonmusk Depends on you ask and how the wind is blowing.

@MarioNawfal @elonmusk I’m going to guess that you can buy a safe car in America without supporting a fascist.

@RandPaul @kylenabecker He already received a blanket pardon from Biden. Why waste everybody’s time?

For years, I warned that Fauci and his inner circle buried the truth about Wuhan. Now his closest adviser has been indicted. Fauci lied to Congress under oath. The statute of limitations expires in 5 days. Will the DOJ finally indict Fauci? thehill.com/homenews/senat…

I care a lot more about saving babies than being politically correct. We are done with euphemisms when talking about abortion. It’s not “reproductive healthcare.” Abortion is barbaric and evil.

@SethDillon It was cute when he tried to shame the baby killer.

He accomplished two important things with this line of questioning: 1) He exposed abortion for what it really is, stripping away the euphemisms that hide its barbarity, and 2) he revealed that abortion's proponents are too embarrassed and uncomfortable to have the conversation without the euphemisms because it makes them look monstrous. In other words, they care more about how they're perceived than anything else, including the wellbeing of innocent, defenseless babies. So they are, in fact, monstrous — and terrible at hiding it. Very well done.

@RepBrandonGill @IngrahamAngle They hate the suction method because it makes the baby’s body parts (I mean clumps of cells) unsellable.

Today I asked an abortion advocate what her favorite method of abortion is.

Cybercab has started production

Heaven ushered in a hero of the faith last night as my Dad was welcomed home! Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he’s not lost, we know exactly where he is. He’s home. Forever! I asked him last week what he looked forward to most about Heaven, and he simply said, “Jesus.” He couldn’t wait to see Jesus face to face. Praise God that his wait is over. Death has been swallowed up in victory. He’s healed and whole now. So we don’t mourn as those with no hope. See you soon Dad!

@cendjk @MattWallace888 Animal cruelty is illegal. Baby cruelty…..not so much.

@MattWallace888 I will still die on this hill: abortion should be fully legal up to 18 weeks. Before that, and the development of the cerebral cortex, it has little to no intelligent thought, instead having that of an animal, and an abortion at most would be animal cruelty.

Just realized what Adrien Brody was referencing at the Oscars and now I feel sick to the stomach 🤢 They don't even try to hide it anymore…

@MattWallace888 A clump a cells can grow arms and legs with fingers and toes? And has the hiccups? Someone should look into this.

I don’t want to say it directly because it is too upsetting, but will leave this video here

@Tommy4Trump420 Is that a vintage Armani?

Crazy leftist tried to ruin our patriot barbecue last night! Didn’t go to well for her at all! Lmmfao