We were going to order pizza, but I needed to find the perfect Pizza Hut coupon first.

You see, I like Pizza Hut pizza.  Always have.  I like it better than the high-end boutique pizzas, the “take ‘em home and bake ‘em yourself” varieties, the ultra cheap “pie for drunk and/or otherwise impaired college kid” pies and even a deluxe homemade treat.

Meat Lovers is fine.  Pepperoni and green pepper (extra pepperoni) is better.  But it’s gotta be on a thin crust. None of that hand-tossed compromise stuff, either.  And don’t even think of trying to sell me on one of these cheese-stuffed crust numbers.  That’s not my thing.

But I wasn’t going to get Pizza hut.  We had a coupon for another local chain and the price was so insanely low that there was no way I was going to convince Mrs. Lampsen into paying more for the Hut.

Step One.  There were several Pizza Hut coupons in the Yellow Pages of one of our phone directories.  Decent bargains, but nothing great.

Step Two.  I checked the Sunday paper.  I found more than one Pizza Hut coupon there, too. Unfortunately, they were primarily there to sell some new pasta meal thingamajig.  I wanted pie.

Step Four.  I stopped by Pizza Hut’s website.  What a great way to find coupons.  All you need to do is enter your address and ZIP.  You get automatic access to all of the coupons available in your area.  I found several strong coupons, including an early front-runner.  It didn’t make Pizza Hut the cheaper option, but it closed the gap.

Step Five.  I’ve done enough research to know that it would require a little reading and wading through some of the phony coupon sites that are really just traps designed to collect paid advertisement clicks, but I decided to hunt for the perfect Pizza Hut coupon online.

I didn’t find it.  I did, however, find some legitimate coupon offers.  One site offered gobs and gobs of Pizza hut coupon codes.  I tested a few for the sake of blog research.  Some worked, most didn’t.  However, you have to give points to any legit coupon site these days.

Which brings up a rather interesting point.  In many cases, looking for a particular restaurant coupon online is extremely tough.  It can be impossible to fight your way through the bad fake coupon sites.  Even if you do make it through that maze, you’ll often find that some restaurants only do coupons in the paper or not at all.

That is not the case with Pizza Hut.  These people issue so many coupons all over the US (and probably abroad) that you can find real examples in a variety of places.  This is one restaurant for which there is no online coupon shortage.

With a little bit of luck and a very small bit of pouting, I was able to convince dear Mrs. Lampsen that using the Pizza Hut coupon received from the company website would cut the cost down enouhg so as to make it competitive.

She reluctantly agreed, and I was soon on the phone with my local Hut, placing an order.  I was about to launch into my order when I remembered the age-old tradition associaed with ordering a pie.  You simply must ask if they have any specials available.

They did.  It perfectly matched our planned order, too.

Oh, and it was a better deal than I could get with a Pizza Hut coupon.