Dive summary:
- Negative feedback causes Pizza Hut to back off its call for delegates to ask Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about their favorite pizza toppings during the presidential debate Tuesday.
- Pizza Hut will randomly pick one online voter who chooses sausage or pepperoni in its promotion to receive pizza for life.
- Pizza Hut originally vowed to give pizza for life to a person who asked the presidential candidates if they preferred sausage or pepperoni during the presidential town hall debate.
From the article:
Appropriate topics to broach during a live, televised presidential debate: The economy. The jobs situation. Pizza toppings? Not so much.
Pizza Hut has canned its roundly panned stunt to get the question “sausage or pepperoni?” asked during Tuesday’s town hall-style event. Instead, the company now plans to run the promotion online. ...
