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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.

Really around here they have made a come back

Could someone elaborate which empire this used to be, for the non-US users? 🙂

This belongs in a museum!!

This pizza Hut needs to be turned into a pizza HOME

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...

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 😁

fancy it up and the red still bleeds

Guess they got out-pizza'd after all

Looks like a Chinese buffet to me

I can still smell the smoking section

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.

Apparently Yum! Foods Inc (the owners of Taco Bell, KFC, A&W, Long John Silvers, and of course Pizza Hut), has been going around buying back a bunch of the old Red Roof stores (as they're known internally, they're actually a different district than a "regular" store right down the street, too) with plans to reopen them, salad bars and all.

So they didn't end up winning the restaurant wars after all.

I love seeing places that were clearly something else. Plenty of places in old Pizza Huts. But I really wanna see the Wienerschnitzel in my city that operates out of a giant hot dog go out of business and then have, like, a cigarette store open up inside the giant hot dog.

Eternity for Lemmy just does this for some reason.

No one out-pizzas The Hut.

Aren't they growing back into Pizza Huts again?

The Pizza Hut in my city is still open, but it looks incredibly run-down with weeds all over the almost-always-empty parking lot. Never been there myself, as Pizza Hut had long lost its good reputation before I ever considered going there.