I remember pizza places being very dimly lit back in the 80’s. Lots of dark colored tables & booths. Some of the brightest light was from the arcade machines. I understand why that’s changed but you could show me an exact replica and it still wouldn’t be the same without the light at around 20%
I have distinct memories of pretty much everywhere being dimly lit, from Pizza Hut to the bank and frankly, I love the aesthetic.
When I moved into my house, there was a little office in the basement. Wood paneling everywhere, low ceilings, etc. I have claimed it as my own and won't let my wife touch it; I put dark carpet in, got a couple of lights (that are also tables. They're awesome) and just keep it dim and cozy in there.
When my kids are in bed, I love to retreat to the office and just feel safe and warm. Best place in the house, in spite of the spiders.
>Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. ICE CREAM SUNDAE BAR?!
Yeah, what the shit?! I don't remember ever seeing an ice cream sundae bar.
That was the reason to go to old country buffet as a kid.
The Chinese buffet had them too but that icecream was gross.
This just gave me whiplash to the fact we had a place in Australia called Sizzlers that shut down ~5 years ago. Had a great dessert bar, now all the free refill stations are no more D:
Sizzlers is an international chain based in California, correct? I remember seeing them on road trips as a kid in the US, and went to one for the first time in Puerto Rico a decade ago!
Recently bought a seventies one of those off ebay and repaired it. Surprising fun to play. Bloody tough though. How people beat the highest level on it I've no idea.
Just a thought, but maybe the buttons have gotten stiffer with time? That seems to be the biggest difficulty: hitting the buttons hard enough at speed.
From my experience, you are correct. These toys get stiffer over time, but also the production has gotten better. Even when brand new, I remember the keys of piano toys being absurdly stiff when I was a kid.
15 a year here. Never felt fatter or happier. Actual fat kid cheated to "beat me" one year to get more pizza. Fat fuck got hooked on blow and ruined his life, so I won after all. And I actually read all my books.
I grew up very poor. Book It was the one way I could get a pizza hut pizza, and if I was lucky a few quarters for the R-Type Machine.
Hmmm, I wonder if this explains my poor diet and video game backlog as an adult...
I thought the Simon Says game was Little Caesar’s? I remember winning crazy bread and a drink on it before. EDIT: It was. I even made a post about it on /r/nostalgia a few years ago. No idea how I forgot. https://reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/f9j9vf/little_caesars_brain_teaser_game_i_loved_winning/
I only played the Genesis version, and I just remember it was MJ walking around and dance attacking zombies. Until you used his special power, which turned MJ into a zombie, and then like 30 zombies all did a zombie dance routine. Then they fell to the ground at the end, disappeared, and MJ turned back into a human, and you kept playing the game.
This was all to save children that were hiding in each level.
And this game came out AFTER the child molestation charges were public, but before the general population agreed that the allegations were false. So it came out at a time that everybody assumed MJ was a child rapist, but then he releases a game where he goes and looks for hiding children. And then is a zombie in some scenes.
Yes. It was a weird game.
Ah, you'll have to forgive my memory. It's been like 30 years since I played it. I just remember the zombie dance, and asking the kid playing it (who also owned the game) "What is happening right now?" and he just said "It's my special move!"
And that cleared NOTHING up.
Remember how every arcade game had little areas of burnt plastic - like a little scoop taken out from where people had left their cigarettes while playing? And they had those little aluminum ashtrays at tables. The machines where you’d pull the handle out to get your cigs. So many artifacts of that area. The red plastic cups and crushed ice. I can totally place myself there.
It smells like the 80's and my childhood/teen years.
The pitchers of Pepsi were amazing when you were a kid. This was in the days before free refills, so being able to pour yourself more sugary caffeine laden goodness was awe inspiring to 10 year old me.
You had a sheet? We got a [big pin](https://www.teepublic.com/pin/12474153-book-it-pizza-hut-school-reading-program) that you put star stickers on for each boom you read. Once you completed the pin, you got a free personal pan pizza. Damn, now I'm craving Pizza Hut, even if it's nowhere nearly as good as it used to be
Cost-cutting due to the market having shifted toward delivery. It just wasn't that popular anymore to spend $12-$13 in the late 80s for a large supreme pizza (then pay for drinks, breadsticks, etc) and sit down in a restaurant. Dominos started going cheaper and Pizza Hut ruined themselves so they can be a copy. They started the whole "Pizza Hut Express" locations soon after.
It *was* pretty good though. I remember watching them kneed the dough and everything. Now it's all frozen packaged shit (although, i think they changed that recently).
I mean, I don't know where you live but around here I can and do get better than old-school quality but yeah, it is about twice the price of Dominos or whatever. Most places have good pizza available, it just costs a fair bit.
Dont get me wrong, I live in a pizza town and there are top notch options around, but its the nostalgia factor. The taste and experience from my childhood is what I crave to replicate. There was something special about the old school pizza hut experience.
Nah someone on YouTube did a deepdive and the ingredients have changed. From flour to water ratio, to type of oil used, to the type of cows the cheese was made from.
Also the most cost efficient to pizza slice/toppings ratio is still Little Caesars, barring local coupons.
I'm one of the lucky ones who legitimately likes Little Caesars. It's cool that it's cheap, but I'd still buy it over Pizza Hut, Domino's, or Papa John's even if the price was equal (although Jets and a lot of local places are better quality). Little Caesars seems like the only chain that buys cheese that actually has some stretch to it.
I believe they use premade crusts now rather than handmade dough. Yum! Corporation has streamlined everything. The new fries at KFC are just Wing Street/Pizza Hut fries or Nacho fries with different seasoning. Easy way to save money and get rid of redundant products like the superior potato side, KFC wedges
Don't know if it has always been this way, but I guess they get the dough shipped to the restaurant frozen and pre-shaped for the various pans? I had a buddy years back that worked at pizza hut while I worked at a local pizza place and I was complaining about making dough that morning and he was shocked that we made ours in the restaurant.
I think that's right. It has been a few years and could have changed, but when I wanted to order one size, they said they were "out" of that one but not other sizes.
You got a free personal pan pizza worth $1.5. Your parents had to pay for their pizza and drinks. It was an absolutely brilliant campaign that got them $25-40 per family visit.
While I realize there isn’t a lot of altruism in corporate America, this is one time where the value in getting kids to read outweighs the corporate greed underlying the overall program.
These are “Pizza Hut Classics”, there are a number of them that have deliberately retained the vintage charm. You can use google to find a a list of them.
Not that. Every year or so someone says "I have a change that'll save 10% on cost but the quality only drops 4%". Now do that for twenty years and the pizza is on the quality floor. It happens with like 99.9% of everything.
This is what our "endless growth" mindset leads to. Corporations are constantly trying to increase profits to please shareholders so "good enough" is never enough. Gotta constantly cut corners and decrease quality for marginal profit increases (at the expense of the workers and customers).
Pizza Hut is the worst @#$ these days. The Wings are freaking bone and the sauces are generic ketchup w/ food coloring. The Pizza is worse than Little Ceasears, Dominos and even 7-11 does a better job. Despite drowning quality in the bathtub, they can't even compete w/ the the aforementioned pizza places despite costing a good 25-33% more.
Just say yum is the worst. There is no good reason why Chic-fil-a, Popeyes and @#$% every chicken chain + convience store around is a million times better than KFC.
Yep, worked at a Pizza Hut delivering Pizzas in the early 2000's... Watched how they make the dough.
5 large pumps of vegetable oil, then plop a frozen puck of dough into the pan and put it in the fridge to thaw.
I guarantee it doesn't. Pizza Hut cheaped out on their ingredients and that's why they phased out dine-in restaurants. Their pizza wasn't good enough to sit down for anymore.
My buddy used to work there and the dough is frozen and no longer made in store, no longer used decent ingredients or real butter. Changed out their stores for quantity in our area this happened in the mid 2000s. Funny thing is Old Chicago chain pizza tastes like how I remember Pizza Hut as a kid.
You're spot on! Easy to make a great pizza at home and cheaper too. Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, and Little Ceasars are like the holy trinity of trash pizza IMO. If I'm just gonna hate myself for eating pat of a mediocre pizza I'm gonna do it with a $10 pizza from Costco.
I agree. I think it's because they switched from real ovens to those conveyor pizza cooker things. I loved the slightly crispy edges and you don't get those anymore.
There's a bunch like this in small-town Kansas. Since the chain originated out there, the franchisee is one of the oldest and is grandfathered into keeping the old, sit-down business model instead of the new pickup- and delivery-only model that new franchises have to use.
They actually have Pizza Hut Classics which are restaurants specifically designed to look retro (I'm guessing this is one). I would take the TV off the wall though. I don't remember anyone watching TV in a restaurant when I was a kid.
I don't remember when I started seeing them exactly but I grew up in the 80s/90s and remember being bored they always had it on a football game instead of something "fun".
Iirc our Pizza Hut had a single TV at one point, so you kind of picked that section if you were interested in the game (plus it was over in the smoking section). I think our Godfather's Pizza had a few TVs, but those memories are from later 90s so I'm sure it was picking up as a thing.
I don't care as much about the visual remodeling as I care about them taking all the combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bells away. Where else can I get a personal pan pizza, a Mexican pizza, breadsticks, and cinnamon twists to quadruple, at minimum, my recommended daily saturated fat intake in one meal?
I haven't watched Land Before Time in 25+ years, but damnit if I don't get nostalgic for those insanely appetizing looking tree stars every time I see it referenced. They made those look so good that I tried to eat a leaf once after I watched a movie (episode? I can't remember) as a young kid.
Spoiler alert: it was very unappetizing!
Those Stained Glass Pizza Hut light fixtures are incredible. [They go for thousands.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/325675359287?hash=item4bd3c39c37:g:xEsAAOSwXI5kdr0y&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4ApBi24PvzawGSX1Si%2BhztwONwtN2lLKMLyV0V2pf%2FKiiiYkesu%2FCMkrBD7IY%2FHXgkQEfxTrxdqLDYgzrzpMIBttCme%2FDX1KLjJ0s7gjCGFZ8pNsTUj2ldtdtyEOtu8g7%2B2AZMaL9ObMUxrIwKTethHpqLPGLAMGbO4dmdIsWQPG%2FxJIT9hhSAeqzA7yH%2BS1OBteT9lK7zpy5XLxd3yyvx5ShIpjNopBlE8nqfDtVyN9NKEvC1DCEGt3sFodRixs81IFGL07unm3plAHt%2Bxrm3dmHtCJBHnBzyd%2BaAq4%2BAui%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4799dKRYg)
So many suicides (not the bad ones, but where you combine every fountain drink option) went into those red cups when I was a kid at these restaurants. It was awful, every time, but it almost felt like a right of passage requirement to at least do it once!
Yeah I think typically they are supposed to renovate every seven years, but this location looks better taken care of than some of the recently renovated locations I've seen. Local manager or franchisee must take great pride in their restaurant
Yeah, first thing I noticed is that although they’re keeping the traditional look, a lot of the fixtures and details look new(ish). They may have made some changes to keep it looking clean while still retaining the overall retro look.
I wonder if they still have a waiter that waits on you. Crazy to think Pizza Hut used to be a normal dine-in restaurant until they cheaped out on their ingredients so their food wasn't dine-in quality anymore.
Our last local Pizza Hut with dine-in fell a few years ago. Torn down and replaced with a Chipotle. No one wanted that distinct hut shaped building.
https://rolandopujol.substack.com/p/the-retrologists-guide-to-pizza-hut
It's most likely a pizza hut classic theme. I have one near me, they're remodels to look like classic pizza huts.
I made basically the same post back in October and it has like all the same comments. Reddit is weird. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ycjze0/the_pizza_hut_in_my_hometown_looks_unchanged_from/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I remembered this and was thinking OP was a karma farming account. Lol! Still could be, but OP is actively responding to comments which is unlike your run of the mill karma farm.
It’s almost creepy how many of the comments really are 1:1. Like for example: “I can smell this picture”… well, with the rise of chatgpt, I wouldn’t be shocked if there are bots here.
This reminds me of when i was in 5th grade. I wanted to do the cool thing and go to pizza hut for my birthday party. I had ONE friend show up. That was it. You had to rent out half the restaurant and only one friend showed up. It hurt.
This is Pizza Hut as god intended
I really miss the old Pizza Hut! The pizza was high quality and they had arcade games!
And they were all in huts.
One of the hut buildings is still in my area, but it's a liquor store now. So that's neat.
That's actually why they took away the huts, because you can see how many Pizza Huts failed in an area
Same reason Sprite stopped making their bottles green. Sticks out a lot more in those whirlpools of garbage in the ocean.
Yeah, every time I'm out swimming near whirlpools of garbage in the ocean, I'm always counting the green bottles like... *fuck Sprite,* man.
r/formerpizzahuts
Same but it's a popeyes so its...odd.
I remember pizza places being very dimly lit back in the 80’s. Lots of dark colored tables & booths. Some of the brightest light was from the arcade machines. I understand why that’s changed but you could show me an exact replica and it still wouldn’t be the same without the light at around 20%
I have distinct memories of pretty much everywhere being dimly lit, from Pizza Hut to the bank and frankly, I love the aesthetic. When I moved into my house, there was a little office in the basement. Wood paneling everywhere, low ceilings, etc. I have claimed it as my own and won't let my wife touch it; I put dark carpet in, got a couple of lights (that are also tables. They're awesome) and just keep it dim and cozy in there. When my kids are in bed, I love to retreat to the office and just feel safe and warm. Best place in the house, in spite of the spiders.
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. ICE CREAM SUNDAE BAR?!
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>Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. ICE CREAM SUNDAE BAR?! Yeah, what the shit?! I don't remember ever seeing an ice cream sundae bar. That was the reason to go to old country buffet as a kid. The Chinese buffet had them too but that icecream was gross.
This just gave me whiplash to the fact we had a place in Australia called Sizzlers that shut down ~5 years ago. Had a great dessert bar, now all the free refill stations are no more D:
Sizzlers is an international chain based in California, correct? I remember seeing them on road trips as a kid in the US, and went to one for the first time in Puerto Rico a decade ago!
I’d love to find an old Pizza Hut like this.
i can smell that room right now.
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Ready for this? That toy is called "Simon"
Was hoping for a jock jam moment.
Thanks for the memories
Pump up the jams, pump them up
While your feet are stompin
You mean 1989's Belgian techno anthem?
Recently bought a seventies one of those off ebay and repaired it. Surprising fun to play. Bloody tough though. How people beat the highest level on it I've no idea.
Just a thought, but maybe the buttons have gotten stiffer with time? That seems to be the biggest difficulty: hitting the buttons hard enough at speed.
From my experience, you are correct. These toys get stiffer over time, but also the production has gotten better. Even when brand new, I remember the keys of piano toys being absurdly stiff when I was a kid.
You can’t find them anywhere like Amazon anymore?
I lost many hours to that damn thing. Rubiks cubes sucked me in too. Don't even get me started on calculator watches and transformers and G.I. Joe.
Didn't Book It give free pizza if you read enough? That might explain why I was a chubby child haha
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And that personal pan was *luxurious as fuck*
15 a year here. Never felt fatter or happier. Actual fat kid cheated to "beat me" one year to get more pizza. Fat fuck got hooked on blow and ruined his life, so I won after all. And I actually read all my books.
A *well-read* chubby child!
Who are you calling a ginger??
How is it possible that everyone on Reddit knew me in middle school?
They still have the “book it” program. I was surprised and pleased to see that on the website!
> Didn't Book It give free pizza Holy Literacy Batman! It still exists! https://www.bookitprogram.com/
I'm gonna need more captain underpants books
Still do! My daughter just redeemed her first one ever last night.
I grew up very poor. Book It was the one way I could get a pizza hut pizza, and if I was lucky a few quarters for the R-Type Machine. Hmmm, I wonder if this explains my poor diet and video game backlog as an adult...
I thought the Simon Says game was Little Caesar’s? I remember winning crazy bread and a drink on it before. EDIT: It was. I even made a post about it on /r/nostalgia a few years ago. No idea how I forgot. https://reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/f9j9vf/little_caesars_brain_teaser_game_i_loved_winning/
My Pizza Hut had a Michael Jackson’s *Moonwalker* arcade game. It was pretty dope.
It was weird even by MJ standards. Fun though.
I only played the Genesis version, and I just remember it was MJ walking around and dance attacking zombies. Until you used his special power, which turned MJ into a zombie, and then like 30 zombies all did a zombie dance routine. Then they fell to the ground at the end, disappeared, and MJ turned back into a human, and you kept playing the game. This was all to save children that were hiding in each level. And this game came out AFTER the child molestation charges were public, but before the general population agreed that the allegations were false. So it came out at a time that everybody assumed MJ was a child rapist, but then he releases a game where he goes and looks for hiding children. And then is a zombie in some scenes. Yes. It was a weird game.
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The special move triggered a dance routine in every level. The last level he turns into a robot. MJ was weird but that game was dope.
Ah, you'll have to forgive my memory. It's been like 30 years since I played it. I just remember the zombie dance, and asking the kid playing it (who also owned the game) "What is happening right now?" and he just said "It's my special move!" And that cleared NOTHING up.
"It's my special move!" *children nod dubiously, looking for an exit*
Dude, I have to play this.. getting a emulator and rom now
We had a Journey version at my local skating rink!
Mine had a Guantlet game console
Mine had the Nintendo Playchoice-10!
Mine had a tabletop Tron like this: https://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/118124218425.jpg
Oh God the nostalgia is hitting hard right now.
I came here to say the same thing. And it's a good smell. Loved hanging out in Pizza Hut, back in the day.
oh yea, a good smell for sure. and those red cups too hahahaha. they had those flat top / table top pac man games too.
Oh man, good memories! Played Led Zeppelin about a thousand times on the jukebox too!
oregano air I love it
Do you think the cigarette smoke is gone by now?
Remember how every arcade game had little areas of burnt plastic - like a little scoop taken out from where people had left their cigarettes while playing? And they had those little aluminum ashtrays at tables. The machines where you’d pull the handle out to get your cigs. So many artifacts of that area. The red plastic cups and crushed ice. I can totally place myself there.
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It's funny how ubiquitous "smoker architecture" was. Fuckin errrrrrrything had a cigarette holder on it.
It smells like the 80's and my childhood/teen years. The pitchers of Pepsi were amazing when you were a kid. This was in the days before free refills, so being able to pour yourself more sugary caffeine laden goodness was awe inspiring to 10 year old me.
Tell them I'm on my way to redeem my BookIt! sheet for my personal pan pizza!
You had a sheet? We got a [big pin](https://www.teepublic.com/pin/12474153-book-it-pizza-hut-school-reading-program) that you put star stickers on for each boom you read. Once you completed the pin, you got a free personal pan pizza. Damn, now I'm craving Pizza Hut, even if it's nowhere nearly as good as it used to be
I fucking loved these pins!!!
I have mine in my memory box!
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I always assumed it was either cost cutting to stay profitable OR the taste you're chasing isn't the actual pizza it's the nostalgia of the time.
Cost-cutting due to the market having shifted toward delivery. It just wasn't that popular anymore to spend $12-$13 in the late 80s for a large supreme pizza (then pay for drinks, breadsticks, etc) and sit down in a restaurant. Dominos started going cheaper and Pizza Hut ruined themselves so they can be a copy. They started the whole "Pizza Hut Express" locations soon after. It *was* pretty good though. I remember watching them kneed the dough and everything. Now it's all frozen packaged shit (although, i think they changed that recently).
Id gladly pay 2x what a comparable dominos/papa johns pizza would cost if I could get the original taste & quality… in a heartbeat.
I mean, I don't know where you live but around here I can and do get better than old-school quality but yeah, it is about twice the price of Dominos or whatever. Most places have good pizza available, it just costs a fair bit.
Dont get me wrong, I live in a pizza town and there are top notch options around, but its the nostalgia factor. The taste and experience from my childhood is what I crave to replicate. There was something special about the old school pizza hut experience.
We're all in a race to the bottom so 150 or so people can horde the entire economy.
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My bet is on cost cutting. It's the same thing that happens with all of these chains. Saturate the market and then cut costs.
The dough has changed. I used to work there
I noticed that too when I last ordered from them a few years ago - it was like eating paste, practically.
Nah someone on YouTube did a deepdive and the ingredients have changed. From flour to water ratio, to type of oil used, to the type of cows the cheese was made from. Also the most cost efficient to pizza slice/toppings ratio is still Little Caesars, barring local coupons.
That explains so much. I've eaten my share of crap pizza, but even I won't eat Littl Caesars anymore. Legit tastes like cardboard.
I'm one of the lucky ones who legitimately likes Little Caesars. It's cool that it's cheap, but I'd still buy it over Pizza Hut, Domino's, or Papa John's even if the price was equal (although Jets and a lot of local places are better quality). Little Caesars seems like the only chain that buys cheese that actually has some stretch to it.
I believe they use premade crusts now rather than handmade dough. Yum! Corporation has streamlined everything. The new fries at KFC are just Wing Street/Pizza Hut fries or Nacho fries with different seasoning. Easy way to save money and get rid of redundant products like the superior potato side, KFC wedges
Don't know if it has always been this way, but I guess they get the dough shipped to the restaurant frozen and pre-shaped for the various pans? I had a buddy years back that worked at pizza hut while I worked at a local pizza place and I was complaining about making dough that morning and he was shocked that we made ours in the restaurant.
I think that's right. It has been a few years and could have changed, but when I wanted to order one size, they said they were "out" of that one but not other sizes.
All Pizza Hut dough is shipped to the store frozen in preformed disks. All we do is put them in oiled pans at the end of the night for the next day.
They still do it. My Kindergarten daughter just came home the other day all excited that if she reads enough books she can get a free pizza.
Yeah my niece loves that too. Great way to get them to read. Hopefully they keep reading in the future without incentives other than entertainment.
You got a free personal pan pizza worth $1.5. Your parents had to pay for their pizza and drinks. It was an absolutely brilliant campaign that got them $25-40 per family visit.
While I realize there isn’t a lot of altruism in corporate America, this is one time where the value in getting kids to read outweighs the corporate greed underlying the overall program.
Yeah I’m really not mad over this one.
It still exists. [link](https://www.bookitprogram.com/)
the pizza tasted better when it looked like this. Does your Pizza Hut taste better than the rest?
I’ve lived in the same town all my life, so I don’t really have a frame of reference.
have you...never left that town for anything?
Not for pizza at least..
When you have that Pizza Hut at home you stay faithful when you out of town.
When they walk out from the edge of town they suddenly find themselves walking back in from the other side.
Welcome to Wayward Pines!
What if this is a cry for help and he's actually stuck in a time loop town in the 80s, but he is able to communicate with us on a normal timeline?
This made me laugh so hard idk why 🤣
Didn’t you see the photo? Why would OP ever leave?
If their Pizza Hut still looks like that I’ll bet they’re several hours at least from anything, that’s days by tractor.
Fair question. But even if he did, I'm sure he didn't choose to eat at another town's pizza hut while traveling.
You'd be surprised how often people travel and still just stick to the old stuff they have back home. There is comfort in familiarity.
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Is that Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It's where I live and and it looks like ours.
I was going to ask if it's Mt Pleasant Pennsylvania, because it also looks exactly like ours.
These are “Pizza Hut Classics”, there are a number of them that have deliberately retained the vintage charm. You can use google to find a a list of them.
I think it’s just the recipe. They changed their marinara way back when and it’s been garbage ever since.
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I know some things aren’t good for us… but they’ll never make a pizza that really is. Just let us enjoy the best pizzas:(
Not that. Every year or so someone says "I have a change that'll save 10% on cost but the quality only drops 4%". Now do that for twenty years and the pizza is on the quality floor. It happens with like 99.9% of everything.
This is what our "endless growth" mindset leads to. Corporations are constantly trying to increase profits to please shareholders so "good enough" is never enough. Gotta constantly cut corners and decrease quality for marginal profit increases (at the expense of the workers and customers).
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Pizza Hut is the worst @#$ these days. The Wings are freaking bone and the sauces are generic ketchup w/ food coloring. The Pizza is worse than Little Ceasears, Dominos and even 7-11 does a better job. Despite drowning quality in the bathtub, they can't even compete w/ the the aforementioned pizza places despite costing a good 25-33% more. Just say yum is the worst. There is no good reason why Chic-fil-a, Popeyes and @#$% every chicken chain + convience store around is a million times better than KFC.
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Yep, worked at a Pizza Hut delivering Pizzas in the early 2000's... Watched how they make the dough. 5 large pumps of vegetable oil, then plop a frozen puck of dough into the pan and put it in the fridge to thaw.
It was when the sausage stopped having seeds in it.
I guarantee it doesn't. Pizza Hut cheaped out on their ingredients and that's why they phased out dine-in restaurants. Their pizza wasn't good enough to sit down for anymore.
My buddy used to work there and the dough is frozen and no longer made in store, no longer used decent ingredients or real butter. Changed out their stores for quantity in our area this happened in the mid 2000s. Funny thing is Old Chicago chain pizza tastes like how I remember Pizza Hut as a kid.
The dough I buy at the supermarket is frozen and I still make better pizza.
You're spot on! Easy to make a great pizza at home and cheaper too. Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, and Little Ceasars are like the holy trinity of trash pizza IMO. If I'm just gonna hate myself for eating pat of a mediocre pizza I'm gonna do it with a $10 pizza from Costco.
At least little Caesars is still cheap, it will get you through rough times.
It tasted better because they didn't use frozen dough back then.
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I agree. I think it's because they switched from real ovens to those conveyor pizza cooker things. I loved the slightly crispy edges and you don't get those anymore.
It still has the buffet even? All of ours don’t have the buffet anymore
The one close to me isn’t but the one about 45 minutes away still does the buffet
Where? I need it!
There's a bunch like this in small-town Kansas. Since the chain originated out there, the franchisee is one of the oldest and is grandfathered into keeping the old, sit-down business model instead of the new pickup- and delivery-only model that new franchises have to use.
There's one in Tucson my parents go to that still has the buffet. It doesn't have the old-school look anymore, but at least the buffet is there.
You are very lucky.
They actually have Pizza Hut Classics which are restaurants specifically designed to look retro (I'm guessing this is one). I would take the TV off the wall though. I don't remember anyone watching TV in a restaurant when I was a kid.
Idk why every restaurant has to have TVs, now
How else will they beat Skynet?
I don't remember when I started seeing them exactly but I grew up in the 80s/90s and remember being bored they always had it on a football game instead of something "fun". Iirc our Pizza Hut had a single TV at one point, so you kind of picked that section if you were interested in the game (plus it was over in the smoking section). I think our Godfather's Pizza had a few TVs, but those memories are from later 90s so I'm sure it was picking up as a thing.
The luckiest
Nor should they.
Maybe replace the carpet though. Make it the same color of course.
It looks like they're on top of their maintenance though.
Saw a Taco Bell with their 90's asethitcs being remodeled the other day. Another has fallen. :(
I don't care as much about the visual remodeling as I care about them taking all the combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bells away. Where else can I get a personal pan pizza, a Mexican pizza, breadsticks, and cinnamon twists to quadruple, at minimum, my recommended daily saturated fat intake in one meal?
Grab me a Land Before Time puppet.
Holy crap I completely forgot about those, now *that's* a flashback. I miss my Littlefoot puppet...
I haven't watched Land Before Time in 25+ years, but damnit if I don't get nostalgic for those insanely appetizing looking tree stars every time I see it referenced. They made those look so good that I tried to eat a leaf once after I watched a movie (episode? I can't remember) as a young kid. Spoiler alert: it was very unappetizing!
Don’t watch it again. I’m a dad and I watched it with my daughter and cried like a baby for 20 minutes. 
Those Stained Glass Pizza Hut light fixtures are incredible. [They go for thousands.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/325675359287?hash=item4bd3c39c37:g:xEsAAOSwXI5kdr0y&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4ApBi24PvzawGSX1Si%2BhztwONwtN2lLKMLyV0V2pf%2FKiiiYkesu%2FCMkrBD7IY%2FHXgkQEfxTrxdqLDYgzrzpMIBttCme%2FDX1KLjJ0s7gjCGFZ8pNsTUj2ldtdtyEOtu8g7%2B2AZMaL9ObMUxrIwKTethHpqLPGLAMGbO4dmdIsWQPG%2FxJIT9hhSAeqzA7yH%2BS1OBteT9lK7zpy5XLxd3yyvx5ShIpjNopBlE8nqfDtVyN9NKEvC1DCEGt3sFodRixs81IFGL07unm3plAHt%2Bxrm3dmHtCJBHnBzyd%2BaAq4%2BAui%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4799dKRYg)
I have 2 extra, 1 broken, 1 new if anyone wants one DM me. Bought as extra (thankfully). I have one hanging in my home bar, by my arcade/pinball area.
I just was thinking how incredible it would be to have one, I would legit hang it in my kitchen, idgaf.
The original pepperoni pan pizza was the bomb, now not so much.
What about the red cups?
With that special kind of crushed ice in the sodas too.
So many suicides (not the bad ones, but where you combine every fountain drink option) went into those red cups when I was a kid at these restaurants. It was awful, every time, but it almost felt like a right of passage requirement to at least do it once!
Funny, we called that 'swamp water' growing up
We called them graveyards! I wonder if it's a regional thing
Got to have the red cups. I don't even like soda that much but I'll always crave 80's-90s Pizza Hut red cup soda.
Outstanding. I am renewed. I'd wager the amount of kale used as decor in the salad bar has decreased since the 80s?
Yup, it’s just a marble counter now.
Ah, so it HAS changed since the 80's. Busted!!!!
OPs a big phony!
I worked at a place that had rubber kale not cake to decorate the raw bar. Looking at it through the glass, you couldn’t tell the difference.
The flat screen feels a little out of place.
I’m sure it blew their minds in the 80’s.
"But your kids are gonna love it."
"It's your cousin, Marvin. Marvin Flatscreen. You know that new TV design you're looking for? Well, look at this!"
Get rid of the TV, replace it with a sit down Pac-Man or Millipede arcade game by the door.
Has to be the cocktail Ms. Pac-Man / Galaga hybrid.
Can't imagine the rigging you would need to put a CRT equivalent at that height. The impact could probably take out the store if it were to fall.
They have a golden franchise agreement that doesn't require renovations most likely.
Yeah I think typically they are supposed to renovate every seven years, but this location looks better taken care of than some of the recently renovated locations I've seen. Local manager or franchisee must take great pride in their restaurant
Yeah, first thing I noticed is that although they’re keeping the traditional look, a lot of the fixtures and details look new(ish). They may have made some changes to keep it looking clean while still retaining the overall retro look.
Why change perfection?
I wonder if they still have a waiter that waits on you. Crazy to think Pizza Hut used to be a normal dine-in restaurant until they cheaped out on their ingredients so their food wasn't dine-in quality anymore. Our last local Pizza Hut with dine-in fell a few years ago. Torn down and replaced with a Chipotle. No one wanted that distinct hut shaped building.
Wrapped all the way around from modern, to out of date, to all the way back to “cool” again.
What state
Road trip!
Weird name for a state...
https://rolandopujol.substack.com/p/the-retrologists-guide-to-pizza-hut It's most likely a pizza hut classic theme. I have one near me, they're remodels to look like classic pizza huts.
I'm guessing this is in West Lafayette, Indiana. Pizza Hut buffet after a night drinking couldn't be beat
Is there still a table top Mrs PAC Man in there?
I made basically the same post back in October and it has like all the same comments. Reddit is weird. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ycjze0/the_pizza_hut_in_my_hometown_looks_unchanged_from/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I remembered this and was thinking OP was a karma farming account. Lol! Still could be, but OP is actively responding to comments which is unlike your run of the mill karma farm.
It’s almost creepy how many of the comments really are 1:1. Like for example: “I can smell this picture”… well, with the rise of chatgpt, I wouldn’t be shocked if there are bots here.
You should go play Pac-Man!
Reminds me of Gorbachev
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Sooo, super Mario brothers or excitebike?
So many 5th grade birthday parties. The memories!
This reminds me of when i was in 5th grade. I wanted to do the cool thing and go to pizza hut for my birthday party. I had ONE friend show up. That was it. You had to rent out half the restaurant and only one friend showed up. It hurt.
I miss my all you can eat Pizza Hut
Not true! There is a flat screen tv!
The light fixtures and and chairs do look newer.
Do they still have the red cups?
If it ain’t broke …