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.
Remember the book-it pizza thing?
Oh man that was the best
They still do this actually. Not quite as cool as when we were kids, but my son brought home a coupon last year for his pizza!
My kid’s school still does Book It but our closest Pizza Hut doesn’t have personal pan pizzas. So they give us a small pizza instead. It’s just not the same.
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.
Such fond memories. This and Shakey’s.
Could someone elaborate which empire this used to be, for the non-US users? 🙂
I think this was Pizza Hut?
edit: yup
I assumed this is a Pizza Hut based on the roof but they still exist so I’m not sure it fits?
I like the version of this meme that’s a picture of a building with an outline of a former Sears logo on the front
They still exist, but the Pizza Hut chain and it’s remain restaraunts are shadows of what they used to be. Pizza Hut was awesome in the 80’s. Now the old one near my house is a church.
Same for Olive Garden. Enshittification and placating shareholders came for them both.
The closest one to my house is a liquor store now.
Idk which is more depressing, your church or the other person replying and their liquor store
Now the old one near my house is a church.
This guy is really into pizza.
An extinct civilisation called Heetzah Putt, rumoured to be near the lost city of Atlantis.
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 know at least one in our town that’s turned into a cannabis dispensary. Seems to me a smart business man would figure out how to combine the two…
Cheba Hut comes close and is a real place, but they don’t sell weed…yet
No weed, but they do have Koolaid, which kinda makes up for it.
There is one near me that is now a church.
Guess they got out-pizza’d after all
This pizza Hut needs to be turned into a pizza HOME
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.
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 😁
Hut always made sense to me. Making pizza in a hut… sort of a quaint name when thought of that way
My favorite poem
I think I’ve seen at least one that has returned to Pizza Hut after leaving the folks for a while.
Pizza Butt, more like PIZZA HUT!
