Remember a long time ago when Pizza Hut wasn't absolute cheap garbage? Back in the day they were semi spacious sit down restaurants that had a great lunch buffet, table service for dinner, and even sold beer. I remember the pizza being much better too.
Anyway they were in buildings just like pic related and that is what this thread is about. Thousands of these iconic pyramidal monuments are to this day spread across America but they are no longer Pizza Hut. So what kind of restaurants did your old Pizza Hut turn into? There were two in my area, one specialises in chicken wings and the other is only open for lunch and does simple homestyle plate lunches.
Yep, it was nice back then. I miss the old Pizza Huts, the pizza was pretty good, the salad bar was good, the pitcher of beer were good....I miss those glass lamp shades that were green and red with the Pizza Hut name in glass. I'd love to find one of those.
Joseph Thomas
The Pizza Huts in my area were always garbage, the nice sit-down places were Pizza Inns. We ate every other Sunday lunch there.
Brayden Ramirez
>Remember a long time ago when Pizza Hut wasn't absolute cheap garbage? No. I remember eating there back in the 80's, when the had the red plastic cups for the fountain drinks. The pizza was greasy, bready crap with too many shit quality toppings on it. >Anyway they were in buildings just like pic related and that is what this thread is about. Yeah. My bro worked at one so I got free pizza. It still sucked. Pizza Hut is like /b/ - it was never good.
Isaac Green
>pizza hut >not garbage ????????????????
Jose Bailey
This is exactly what my Pizza Hut looks like and they still have buffet, table service and beer.
Henry Davis
And the pizza is still awful.
Jack Jackson
It's too bready and has too much salt and butter but at least it's consistent. Papa John's used to actually be really good and has since declined to Pizza Hut level while Domino's used to be total shit and has risen up to being equally mediocre.
Market forces.
Brayden Perry
Pizza Hut was always shitty depressing inside. I would never ever consider getting their buffet menu. And I was like 8 the last time I was inside one, and that was in the late 90's
Honestly, it has a hard time staying spacious inside against pickup pizza places.
Xavier Nguyen
The old one here is now a liquor store.
Joshua Cox
>but at least it's consistent. Consistently awful. You don't get a prize for that.
Carter Adams
I have one about five minutes away from me that's still open as a restaurant.
It still doesn't look too traditional, and is VERY run down. It's been open for a while and recently got rid of their lunch buffet that used to draw mad people. I wouldn't be surprised if they shut down all of a sudden. Their tables wobble, usually there's hardly any people there working.
Owen Roberts
The pizza was always hot garbage. We just didn't realize it because we were kids and they had arcade games and Ninja-Turtles promotional tie-ins.
Nathan Cruz
That was Chick E. Cheese. Their pizza was no worse than Pizza Hut.
Jaxon Jones
>butter
Wtf?
Michael Hall
Pizza Hut had arcade games. Like actual video games, not ticket-dispenser shit.
Doesn't change the fact their pizza was (and is) awful redneck shit.
John Hall
You thought I meant 'hot garbage' as a compliment?
Nathaniel Young
>Their pizza was no worse than Pizza Hut
Yes it was. Their pizza is worse than Little Caesars. No trolling.
Michael Stewart
They pretty much set the standard for pizza back in the day if you lived someplace without many Italian Americans. I have yet to have chain pizza that isn't terribad. The nuances between Little Caesar's, Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and whatever other crap chain you care to mention are lost on me. It's all awful bready, greasy shit. And Pizza Hut started that ball rolling, so I blame them.
Chase Lee
>Little Caesar's, Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's
I hear that. I'm not going to tell you they're all good.
I will say that just because you gave up on them and don't think they're not worth your time doesn't mean that within the "fast food pizza" world some don't outrank others.
Isaiah Evans
In case anyone cares, there is an old school Pizza Hut in Payson, Arizona. Obviously they've kept up on the menu, but the interior is nostalgic as fuck, and they still have a buffet set up during lunch. Pizza, breadsticks, pastas, salad. Pretty great.
Daniel Thompson
pizza hut is German for pizza hat
you fags are literally eating at pizza fedoras, good night good fight
Blake Smith
I have a relatively new one in my area. Went with the whole "Bistro" shtick. Its acceptable food, nothing more nothing less. But I question how its even still open, I cant remember the last time it had more then 4 tables in use.
Aiden Williams
Who the fuck in their right mind puts butter ON a Pizza?
Luke Torres
The nearest Pizza Hut moved some years ago to a much smaller location a few blocks from where they used to be and only do carryout and delivery now. Their old building has sat unused. The Pizza Hut in the next town over still has full dine in service and lunch buffet and everything. I still go there every once in a while and it's more or less the same quality as it's always been.
John Sullivan
You know, my parents were alive and grown back in the 80s and 90s when old Pizza Hut was still around. They both say nu-Hut kicks the old Hut's ass. But I stand before you today bearing witness that Papa John's is the best fast-food pizza chain in the nation.
Tyler Butler
>Back in the day they were semi spacious sit down restaurants that had a great lunch buffet, table service for dinner, and even sold beer. I remember the pizza being much better too.
The pizza hut in my town is a spacious sit down restaurant that serves beer. The decor hasn't changed in 15 years though, and yeah, the quality of the pizza has really gone down hill. The store also only hires shitskins and south east asians, then a single white manager to boss them all around. It's a miracle if you actually get the food you ordered.
Kevin Robinson
>within the "fast food pizza" world some don't outrank others. I suppose, but it becomes like ranking McD's, BK and Wendy's - whatever rationale you use your #1 will still be shit. And I get the argument that even awful pizza is still good, especially if you live in a place where good pizza is hard to come by. But if you have access to good pizza there's no need to ever bother with fast food chain pizza.
Blake Lee
the last time i was in a pizza hut was when there were still smoking & non-smoking sections in restaurants
Colton Anderson
Hmm.
Colton Lee
>London ONT sucks to be you desu
Nicholas Johnson
Hi Abilene
Jeremiah Allen
pizza hut salad bar was the fucking shit yo
Levi Green
Pizza huts in mainland china and japan are always pretty bumpin' They do actual service sometimes too. If you ever make it out to east asia make sure to check one out.
Isaiah Thompson
Sorry best chain pizza in select States coming through
The squared pizza is straight up white privilege, fucking place is amazing for chain
Jose Nelson
I remember doing some read-a-long thing in elementary school where we earned free personal pizzas and it was based.
Evan Foster
Dude this
I live in Michigan, around the sespool of metro detroit where niggers surround all other hard working people.
There's still a pizza hut on fort Street that has not changed since the early 90's. We're talking all the wood finish that's really garbage plastic, a broke down TMNT in time arcade that's busted to shit, smoking section, and an old salad bar that's now out of order. Place is a relic I don't know how it's open.
Also a stand alone carry out on pizza hut more near the city, nigger infested of course
Samuel Brooks
my 'gga We had to read so many thousands of pages per month or quarter or whatever and get it signed off by our parents and then our school would give you a coupon for a free pizza from the hut if you made some obscene amount. I tricked my sisters into reading the books for me and telling me what happened in each chapter so i could tell my parent's about my "progress" so they would sign my sheet. shit was fucking cash and I didn't even share my 'zas
Andrew Butler
Your parents suck.
Andrew Garcia
>tfw got papa john's yesterday and it gave me the shits Probably karma for working at the Hut. Can't betray my work, apparently.
Nathan Thomas
>pizza hut right next door
William Roberts
This is still a thing actually. Have kids come in with the coupons all the time.
Juan Thompson
Actually they make millions of dollars by being consistent. That's better than a prize.
I suppose it's more likely butter flavored grease but pizza hut pizza uses a lot of it.
Ayden White
Im laughing harder than I should
Cooper Howard
>That's better than a prize. That was. decades ago. Now like McD's the brand is struggling to keep up because they're mired in what the second half of 20th Century America thought was cool. And we watched those fatfucks who ate this shit and washed it down with soda die of 'beetus and heart disease and decided it wasn't cool. Just like smoking. So how the fuck is the Hut supposed to reinvent itself? I think it can't, just like McD's. It's a major player on the fast track to being an historical footnote. General Mills is heading in the same direction.
Adam Martinez
All the brand has to do is what domino's is doing, only slightly upgrade the quality of food and rehaul the restaurants look.
Sure it'll cost some money but in the long run after a few years pay off. The pizza hut in my town use to have 45 min waits it was so slammed in the 90's.
Gavin Cruz
I actually went to a sit down pizza hut recently. I thought they were long gone but I was in new mexico and they had one. Terrible service though. They were busy with delivery orders and we waited 30 minutes for our pizzas.
Jordan Rivera
This.
When I was growing up in China Pizza Hut was the shit (heard it still is). The restaurant was upscale as fuck, the pizza was amazing (zero similarity with the American version). When they first opened there was usually a ridiculously long line that wrapped around a whole block.
Jayden Jenkins
>Pizza Hut doesn't make millions of dollars lolno. Kmart is struggling. JC Penny is struggling. Pizza Hut is just getting caught up to by Domino's because Domino's is cloning them. That's how the market works these days. Both make about ten million dollars worth of shareholder profit every single day, 3.5 billion dollars a year.
Alexander Campbell
>slightly upgrade the quality of food and rehaul the restaurants look. I doubt that'll happen. That wouldn't be consistent with the brand (or Yum! in general). From the start the brand has been about more being better - big greasy pizza with four toppings. These where the folks who decided stuffed crust was a great idea. And not just stuffed with cheese, they did hot dog stuffed crust as well. This is how Yum! operates. BK isn't going to improve the quality of the Whopper, they'll just offer a side of Angry Chicken Fries. Taco Bell isn't interested in making a better burrito, but they'll happily sell you a quesarito. Pizza Hut would rather sell you a Crazy Cheezy pizza than revamp their ingredients to make a better pizza. They know their customers aren't all that savvy. Their menu uses terms like "authentic old-world pepperoni". (Pepperoni is an American creation). Like Kmart and JC Penny Pizza Hut's success was a result of tapping into the exuberance and relatively high disposable income of the lower middle class in the second half of the 20th Century. That demographic is a little less affluent in relative terms today. They do less recreational shopping. But they're still doing well enough to have pizza on Friday nights. The difference is that in the 1970's Pizza Hut was the only game in town for a lot of these folks. Today their options include pretty much the same menu with the perception of better quality from Domino's and $5 Hot and Ready from LC's. They may be doing fine right now, but like McD's they're locked into a model that could become obsolete as consumers increasingly turn to options the perceive as "fresher".
Levi Evans
>Remember a long time ago when Pizza Hut wasn't absolute cheap garbage? No, I don't. It's always been lowest-common-denominator pizza, just barely a step above ketchup on toast with a Kraft Singles slice melted on top.
Christopher Cook
>not looking up a summary of a really long book and lying about reading to get delicious cheap mini pizza's
They didn't verify a damn thing
Kayden Howard
Hut is pretty shit now, but you still can't beat those good old breadsticks every once in a while.
Jace Johnson
Damn you just reminded me of going to Red Lobster as a kid when there were still smoking and non smoking sections. Parents didn't smoke and neither did I, but holy shit what a paradise that would be now.
Connor Nguyen
Pappa Murphy's is far superior
Dominic Jackson
The old pizza hut building still stands in my town but it's now a Chinese restaurant.
