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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Greg in Jersey City, NJ, called Mark to talk about how he saw a Pizza Hut location that went back to old school restaurant branding, which is attracting people. Jim in New Jersey called Mark to talk about a story of industrialist Henry Flagler, who helped build a railroad from Miami, Florida, to Key West, Florida.

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0:00.0	Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on WOR.
0:05.6	Well, let's take some calls.
0:07.6	Let's go to Greg in Jersey City.
0:10.2	Greg, how you doing?
0:11.8	Hey, doing good.
0:12.9	I was down in Massey's district last week because one of those pizza hot locations is right
0:18.8	across the river from downtown Cincinnati, and it's actually
0:22.2	one franchisee with those 80 locations.
0:25.7	He had to get permission from corporate to revert back to the old, you know, restaurant-style
0:31.1	concept.
0:32.1	So.
0:32.3	And was it crowded?
0:33.3	Was it busy?
0:33.9	Did people love it?
0:35.5	Oh, yeah.
0:36.2	It was maybe like 40, 50, you know, parties in their restaurants.
0:41.7	It was about 7 o'clock at night at their time.
0:44.4	And, yeah, I mean, it remains to be seen if other franchisees within Pizza Hut will adopt the concept because
0:55.6	like I say it's just one guy
0:57.5	and certainly at the test run.
1:00.2	All right, good point, Greg.
1:01.3	But remember, it's usually the local
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