This "manager" is an idiot. Pizza Hut is not a critical business, even if they do provide meals--free or not--after the storm clears. 

No one can predict if conditions will allow anyone to return to an evacuation zone in 72 hours, nor, as the article notes, is it wise to wait until the last minute to evacuate. Safety is the first duty of first responders. It should be no less so for citizens. 

This manager reminds me of those WW l unit commanders who ordered attacks in the hours before the armistice, the time of which was known, in order to advance their postwar careers by showing their aggressiveness. Easy to spend the lives of others.