With that logo and those buildings, they were clearly supposed to be named Pizza Hat until they changed it at the last minute.
More’s the pity, since “hut” never made sense for pizza and Pizza Hat sounds like the ultimate slacker Halloween costume 😁
You just solved history.
I did? Where’s my celebratory sash?
Reading the comments tells me that most people here do not appreciate exactly how far Pizza Hut fell. For many Gen-X’s 1980’s Pizza Hut was peak dining. The pizza was buttery deliciousness with full table service like a fancy restaurant, complimentary salad bar for my mom, fancy booths or tables, mood lighting for the folks on a date, and a video game arcade. Going to Pizza Hut was an event. I tried Pizza Hut again in the 2010’s and vowed to never attempt to soil my memories like that ever again.
pizza hut in the small town i grew up in stayed like that until the 2018 when the sole owner died and his inheritors outsourced its management rather than returning to bfe to run it (i don’t blame them) and i feel like that’s how most older establishments enshittify.
there was no way he was making money, but he CLEARLY loved pizza & people and was happy doing it.
Pizza Hut buffet was a good deal for the price and quality, if you wanted to go have a lunch of real pizza.
Our local one is still here but they sold the big red roof building and moved into a strip mall. No inside dining, carry out only. I miss the drive-through though - used to be able to just order online or call and not have to get out of my car to get it. Now I have to park and walk inside and my precious convenience is reduced. But I still refuse to pay for Doordash type bullshit.
There is a pizza hut nearby that still does buffets. I went about a year ago. It wasn’t bad.
THE DESSERT PIZZAS
Guess they got out-pizza’d after all
Ours moved in to a strip mall and went pick up or delivery only. The old location is a really over priced shitty coffee house now.
This pizza Hut needs to be turned into a pizza HOME
This belongs in a museum!!
Looks like a Chinese buffet to me
That would be 3 different Chinese buffets over a 5 year period!
I can still smell the smoking section
No one out-pizzas The Hut.
I think I’ve seen at least one that has returned to Pizza Hut after leaving the folks for a while.
I remember being in a certain pizza hut near a certain corporate HQ, and managers from that acquiring corp were working the lunch in the kitchen.
I doubt they knew the end was coming, but I did.
Corp still sells a lot of flavored water.
Pizza Butt, more like PIZZA HUT!
While instead, the runs turned out to be quite temporary:-)