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Life Lessons from Everyday things - The one from loving the salad at Pizza Hut

I miss them. The salad bars in Pizza Hut.

I often overthink it – why do they not have them in India?!

You might tell – Aren’t the pizzas more their thing, then why worry about the salad?  

Well. Go to the salad bar and then let’s talk!



That plate of salad is what I feel is absolute education.

In Pizza Hut, there is the scheme of paying for a plate and taking as much salad as you can in one short in that plate. As straightforward as it may sound, it is an exercise that challenges you and tests you on everyday skills!




The presence of mind to hold a napkin in your hand with the plate before you start – Initiate with purpose.

Holding it firmly and doing the mental calculation of what goes where and the approximate quantities – Planning.

Starting the layering and making those calculative moves – Be it the base layer of lettuce to avoid the runoff from the coleslaw and pickled beet or making sure the olives are embedded in the salads; silently recollecting the errors that happened in the previous plating; paying attention to the requirements of your tribe seated at the table – "please take an extra bit of potato salad!" – Execution

Knowing where to stop and not giving in for that final last spoon of corn to top it off – Monitor & Control

The final act of walking with that carefully built plate to your table, making sure that everyone on the table gets everything and that you transfer without spilling – Closeout.

That's literally everything I learnt academically in the last two years!

Sitting and watching different people at the salad buffet of Pizza hut has been one of the most satisfying and judgmental things I’ve done. I was envious of the ones who stacked like there was no tomorrow and I felt pity for the ones who stopped with a bit of corn and coleslaw because they couldn’t position the rest without running the risk of collapse.

I felt so proud of my dad who had the balance and craft to bring enough in a small plate for a table full of hungry humans. I look back at those days when he could balance that plate in one hand and do all sorts of victory gestures with his other while walking toward us.


#Lessons from everyday life 

Life lesson 1 – Sometimes you stuff more than you believe the plate can hold, and it turns out okay. In fact, it could be great.

Life lesson 2 – To assemble a plate that can hold more than what it is meant to hold - takes discipline & presence of mind. 

Life Lesson 3 – Just because pizza is expected to be the showstopper in a pizza hut, it need not be. Never underestimate the value added by things on the side. 


#ifyouknow,you know




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