Pizza Hut.........bringing back the REAL DEAL restaurants!!!!

[1srelluc]

Low end restaurants are dying out. Basically we have a world of fast food and high end dining. Middle class is shrining and getting more and more broke. At least this Pizza Hut has a hook, the nostalgia. Maybe it will work.

I met my wife at the local PH.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I gave up on Pizza Hut a long time ago. Last few times I went there, they had no salads, nothing that wasn't just more dough. Even their deserts were dough. And the pizza was like cardboard.

Why are you eating desert? Isn't that a bit dry?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We used to go to the Pizza Hut in town but quit going there after they eliminated the salad bar, back during the pandemic. They've brought back the salad bar but it no longer has the hot pasta with red or white sauce, and the desert.

What do they serve, rocks and sand?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

According to various sources there are still numerous dine in Pizza Huts around.

I know of 7 different ones in Southern California.

The ones that appear to be defunct are the ones that were combined with Taco Bell. Both chains are part of the same corporation.

This Is Where To Find The Remaining Pizza Hut Buffet Locations - Daily Meal

Did you know that Pizza Hut stores used to have buffets? Some of them are still around today, but you'll only find them through online word of mouth.

www.thedailymeal.com

That list is not accurate. I know of two that are not on that list, personally.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I met my wife at the local PH.

Took my wife on our first date to Pizza Hut.

 

[martybegan]

I'll pass on the Burger King no matter how retro they get.

I have a nostalgic soft spot for the Burger King original Chicken Sandwich, it all its pressed chicken too much mayo glory.

 

[JGalt]

What do they serve, rocks and sand?

Ok, -10 for spelling. I meant "dessert."

 

[Gary Seven]

Most def!
We went regularly throughout the 70's and early 80's. In the 90's PH's quality and allure seemed to drop considerably, almost abysmally.

I have literally been to Pizza Hut only TWICE in the last 25 years. Once around 2003 near Delhi, NY (upstate). It was 12°F and I was out exploring one January night many miles from home while contemplating going to a college up there for a culinary degree. I was just trying to get to know the area and see what it was like. That Pizza Hut was sort of ok but still quite "m'eh".

The last time I went to a Pizza Hut was in Natrona, P.A. about 5 years ago. That time was so unimpressive, it's likely I'll never set foot in a Pizza Hut again unless I'm really hungry.

I miss those old semi-translucent red plastic cups (if you're as old as me you know the ones ). And the pizza used to be REAL pizza...like pizza parlor pizza, made from scratch, not some pre-frozen crap passed through an automated oven. And Pizza Hut's salad bars were really excellent way back when, too. And they had alternatives like subs and hoagies spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, etc. And also way back when, they had arcade games....sometimes the upright ones and sometimes the consoles you could sit at.

Thems was the days....

 

[Moonglow]

I sure hope that I get one around where I live!!!!
I sure miss these places!!!

I think the last surviving actual PH restaurant was in Lewisville, Texas.
That was back in the 90s though. But I was shocked there was one still "alive" around here, as all the most popular ones were shut down in the late 80s.

Did your family ever go to the Pizza Hut restaurants back when??

No, we went to Mazzio's.

 

[katsteve2012]

That list is not accurate. I know of two that are not on that list, personally.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of it, which is why I included the other article that stated the company doesn't keep an official registry of their dine in locations.

I came across that list while trying to find one for a relative who was traveling across country last year from the Midwest and that was the only source that I could find.

 

[katsteve2012]

Yeah, but are they the full service, original style Pizza Huts?
Or do they just have some tables and chairs and thats it?

Looks like the only one anywhere near me is 40 miles away, in Grapevine, Tx.
I will have to look this one up.

Now, there WAS a Pizza Inn, full service restaurant/buffet that was freeking awesome in Lewisville, Texas.
I went there as often as I could. But they shut it down for some reason. Sad. They had better pizza than any of the other places.

I've been to several here in Caifornia that are on the list, which are the old format, but as the other article that I attached stated, for some reason the company doesn't keep an up to date listing of their full service locations, which is odd because they were popular back in the day.

 

[JustAGuy1]

That was our rallying point after our Football games

Low end restaurants are dying out. Basically we have a world of fast food and high end dining. Middle class is shrining and getting more and more broke. At least this Pizza Hut has a hook, the nostalgia. Maybe it will work.

That was our rajllying point after our Football games.
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[LibertyWeeps]

I've been to several here in Caifornia that are on the list, which are the old format, but as the other article that I attached stated, for some reason the company doesn't keep an up to date listing of their full service locations, which is odd because they were popular back in the day.

I will have to email corporate and tell them they need to get off their asses and start promoting their full service restaurants.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

No, we went to Mazzio's.

Never went to one, but I remember seeing a couple of them around Dallas back when.

 

[Moonglow]

Never went to one, but I remember seeing a couple of them around Dallas back when.

I lived in OKC then, and it used to be a Ken's pizza, but Mazzio's bought it out. Then you had Godfather's Pizza, which is where I worked as a teen.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

My favorite Italian place is Fazoli's.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Concerned American]

I sure hope that I get one around where I live!!!!
I sure miss these places!!!

I think the last surviving actual PH restaurant was in Lewisville, Texas.
That was back in the 90s though. But I was shocked there was one still "alive" around here, as all the most popular ones were shut down in the late 80s.

Did your family ever go to the Pizza Hut restaurants back when??

I saw a poll in the last couple days rating the best pizza places. Pizza Hut topped the list followed by Papa John's, Little Caesars and a couple others I don't recall. Dominos came in 6th if IIRC. I disagree with the findings, but they are what they are. My favorites are not on the list---Round Table (the last honest pizza) and one that came about from Round Table in CA called Mountain Mike's. I like both equally--but MM's is a bit lower priced. I have been spoiled because if I can't get RT, I am not really interested.

 

[Concerned American]

I never said "actual".

Maybe it was auto correct, but the word is in the third line of your post. Just sayin'

 

[Concerned American]

I gave up on Pizza Hut a long time ago. Last few times I went there, they had no salads, nothing that wasn't just more dough. Even their deserts were dough. And the pizza was like cardboard.

I haven't had PH since the early 90s. I ordered one on a basketball promotion that they were running. Free BB with every pizza. LOL, free my butt. My $15 medium pizza came to nearly $30 which was exorbitant for the time.

 

[Concerned American]

Never went to one, but I remember seeing a couple of them around Dallas back when.

Wow, I thought Pizza Huts were everywhere in the US. I need to get out more. LOL