Guess they got out-pizza’d after all
Looks like a Chinese buffet to me
That would be 3 different Chinese buffets over a 5 year period!
With that logo program 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
You just solved history.
I did? Where’s my celebratory sash?
In Germany it was always confusing but fun because “hut” just means hat
I think I’ve seen at least one that has returned to Pizza Hut after leaving the folks for a while.
This belongs in a museum!!
This pizza Hut needs to be turned into a pizza HOME
really want someone to buy one, remodel it as a home to live in, then install a wood-fired pizza oven
Eternity for Lemmy just does this for some reason.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.
fancy it up and the red still bleeds
Mmmm Cora
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.
Could someone elaborate which empire this used to be, for the non-US users? 🙂
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.
…it’s mind-boggling from today’s perspective just how good the olive garden was in the eighties: we reserved a table for my graduation and it was a properly respectable dinner…
It’s hard for me to explain to people the unique tier that Olive Garden (and separately Pizza Hut) existed in.
There were many nicer Italian places than Olive Garden. It wasn’t pretentious at all, but it was nice and ubiquitous. Maybe a little better than PF Changs today? (Not that I’m very familiar with PF Changs). No one would laugh at you for taking a date there.
Pizza Hut was more casual by far, largely because you’d have kids playing arcade games and whatnot. Pizza Hut was more family oriented, but still more classy than most things we have today.
Maybe Texas Roadhouse is closer to accurate.
…in its prime, olive garden was very similar to red lobster: upscale suburban is perhaps a good description…
…these days they’re both well past their prime and i’m not sure a similar national chain comes to mind; it seems like only regional chains are playing in that space…
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.
Our Lady of Unlimited Salad Bar
The closest one to my house is a liquor store now.
I think this was Pizza Hut?
An extinct civilisation called Heetzah Putt, rumoured to be near the lost city of Atlantis.
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…
The maintenance on those buildings at this point would be major. Probably not worth the investment.
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.
My favorite poem
Pizza Butt, more like PIZZA HUT!
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.
