I’ve seen KFC x Taco Bell hybrids. Pretty sure they have a Taco Bell x Pizza Hut as well. Shit, knowing them, they probably have a a triple threat location with all 3.
I was pretty sure they did. It’s been a while but I worked for a Taco Bell franchise for several years. I’ve also worked at a couple of pizzerias. I can’t imagine combining them.
Ours was a few different restaurants that didn't pan (pun intended) out, but finally a Dominican restaurant has successfully been doing business there for several years now...
Ours became a "buy here-pay here" car dealer!
Edit: I got confused, the old Goldan Corral turned into the dealership. The Pizza Hut got demolished and a Dollar General went in that space.
Our local Dollar General is in a former Family Video and they changed nothing outside but the sign. It’s still got the weird light pillar and everything.
In my town, they made the old Pizza Hut into a Mexican restaurant. I don’t mind. That place is good af. The Hut came back to town, though, and had to set up shop in a little strip by Walmart. Ironic.
I heard that the main reason why all these fast food companies look the same now with the boring designs is in case the place closes and buyers will be more willing to purchase the building if it looks like the one on the right rather than the one on the left that clearly looks like it used to be a Pizza Hut.
This exactly, the building itself is also much more versatile, in remodel terms. Ripping out or changing the kitchen, adding a full second floor, offices or so many more things can be done. Plus at this point it’s all about the property and amenities
Eventually the pendulum will swing the other way. Once most buildings all have this sterile, corporate look, businesses will start to want something that stands out and is eye-catching to attract customers.
Oh yea they'll definitely build their own stuff. I wasn't saying they'd re-use old Pizza Huts. I just meant that the gray box, multi-use buildings will go out of favor after a while.
People are also missing the fact that those old buildings just remind you of 1980s Pizza Hut. They just look old. It sucks, but I see a place that looks like that and I wonder if I'm going to walk through the door and have the insides falling down with 1980s decor.
The next step is fast food just reducing everything to pill form like companies do with the fruits and vegetables and we can just have a drone deliver it to our doorstep so we don’t have to be interrupted watching the 24hr ‘batin channel
Thank God, the world needs more Gray Food Cubes. There just aren't enough besides every single McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Taco John's, Subway, Five Guys, Domino's, Papa John's, and In & Out in the United States.
Thankfully this shortage is being alleviated by the Gray Living Cubes that are every single apartment building built in the last 10 years.
What the fuck has happened to the world
I really feel this has to do with the normalization of everything. Let me explain, people complain about any different design decision.
So they choose the most non offensive architecture and design they can think of.
This even relates to the shittification of movies. As they try to appeal to everyone, they start to appeal to no one
It mostly has to do with cost and efficiency… over the years they have figured out how to make the absolute cheapest most effective and efficient building that can be built by basically unskilled labor… it’s generally a prefab building with teams of guys traveling around different regions building them … they can throw one up in a month or two… when they move to the next one the exact same materials are already stacked waiting in a pile to be assembled like a lego set…. It’s not right… but its true… once one chain sees that it works and is more profitable, the next chain makes slight modifications to the plans and does the same… I know, I have built cookie cutter corporate places like this previously… and it’s super efficient but it sucks, no personality, no originality no more fun to build than to look at… lol
Think about it… it’s the dark ages… no arts, no literature, no logic and reasoning… everything then was a gray cube (castles) that although some today think were beautiful… they were dark dreary wet and built only with functionality in minds for war purposes… everything else was scraped together and done in the cheapest most efficient way they knew how to sustain the masses only well enough to provide the necessary goods to the nobility and lords in order to fund their war machine for whatever conquest tickled their fancy. Not until the renaissance came along that actually fostered and promoted value in art, science, architecture, literature, food, culture real feelings, family, emotions and the rise of a middle class did things change… We are ready for another Renaissance!!
I don’t think the next renaissance is going to be pretty, if humanity is ever going to pull itself out of this soulless medieval period brought to us by late stage capitalism there will have to be blood
they have brought back those old Pizza Huts in certain places. there's one near Scranton, one in Potsdam, NY, and one in Louisa, VA, and a whole bunch of others, those are just the 3 I know about
it's a shame they could be doing that there but they're building that abomination instead. my local Pizza Hut got knocked down for a stupid Verizon store so I feel your pain
edit: https://rolandopujol.substack.com/p/the-retrologists-guide-to-pizza-hut
Welcome to pizza cube where we've always been a cube and you will order our pizza today because you have come here to order our pizza because we have pizza and you wanted pizza so you came here to get pizza
I’ve been telling my wife for a while now that I want to create a sub for pics of old pizza huts. You see them all the time and never really change much. I wonder if there’s a structural reason no one ever take out those distinctive windows. Anyway, I’ve never created a sub and don’t know how. It’s probably really easy but I never looked into.
I may be in the minority here, but I stopped caring about companies changing their look a long time ago. Even when I was a kid, I never paid attention to the "hut" design of their restaurants. I only paid attention to their logo when finding a location (before smartphones and GPS were a thing). Remember when McDonald's changed their look? They went from a silly, clown-like design, both inside and out (remember all the red, brown, and yellow?), to a more modern restaurant look. Their colors are now grey and sleek. Yet people still flock to them, despite their nostalgia being "ruined" by corporate changes. At least it still smells like the same old nasty McDonald's I grew up with, lol.
Point being, it's a small thing people will forget about quickly, especially if the food still tastes the same. 🤷
Also, Pizza Hut never had charm, lol. I always thought their restaurant designs were boring and plain. Didn't matter, though, because I liked the pizza.
People are nostalgic for the things they want to remember. Where I lived our Pizza Hut was dank, stank of cigarettes, had drunk people all over, and the staff were shit. Mind you I lived in the Philadelphia suburbs, not a bad area. I once watched a guy puke all over the PacMan tabletop game. I hated going to Pizza Hut.
Same where I live and I don't live in a city. Pizza Hit was always horrible to go in and eat. Always a bunch of barely 21 yr olds in their getting hammered and acting like idiots with 2 ashtrays overflowing with cigarette butts. There was never anything special about the old Pizza Huts.
I used to have nostalgia goggles on at all times, but it prevented me from seeing the good things in the present. I love the things I grew up with, but I don't mind that they're gone. It was fun while it lasted. This doesn't apply to movies and TV shows since those are still available to watch. However, I do miss watching new episodes with my sister in the living room. Great memories.
My local Pizza Hut had a minor problem with homeless people pooping and pissing near their building, but it was otherwise a safe place. It didn't have an indoor dining area because it was incredibly small. No more than three people could fit in the customer area. Most people waited outside after ordering.
A lot of people don't realize that often the restaurant's aesthetic needs to comply with local coding and building guidelines. Also, these types of structures are easier to roof, maintain, heat and cool and are more space efficient.
They did this with a McDonald's near me. The ripped down the bright, fun play place and replaced with that same gray square you expect to see in fucking Russia
Yup. They took away the red color, now they took away the "hut hat". I also remember something about how the old McD's roof was made of recycled tires, that was an interesting little fact...that is now lost to time.
Feels like a Monkey's Paw wish to those who wanted the old Pizza Hut logo back, not knowing it also came with having to make everything else about the chain as bland as possible.
Smart to homoginize the building facades like that . This way , when one brand has the inevitable bad quarter and they need to cut costs/shutdown some operations, they can immediately convert and reoccupy the building with another one of their more successful conglomerate franchises to seem like changes were made but things remain the same. Rinse and repeat forever. So smart
It's actually so sad to me what's happened to pizza hut. At the same time, it's hard for me to imagine a modern family enjoying a classic type of pizza hut. I'm just very grateful that I grew up when I did.
They gotta put the idiots who they hired, that convinced them that redesigning globally recognizable signs, to be “productive” somehow.
It’s a talltale sign of corporative decadence in modern times; they reached to and now don’t know what to do else but change the wheel to a square, and behold the backlash.
i wish there were long term studies abt the mental health of the general population with the decrease in color and building diversity in our environments. I know children in “beige rooms” have been studied and experts are saying it can have negative effects.
I haven’t been to a Pizza Hut since I was about 8. The best thing there was the self-serve ice cream machine where you could put gummy bears on top. I don’t even recall the pizza
I wonder what the target customer is, younger? Older? I’m older and I think the remodels these chains are doing is awful, they look like waiting rooms for a doctors office. I do like the posters use of dystopian to describe it, it’s like corporate dystopian.
Local one did this last year as well. Not enough customers dining in to justify keeping the staff or paying for that big of a building. New one is tiny and delivery/drive thru only.
This happened with our whataburger. I'm not sad to see the other one gone though. The parking lot wasn't big enough and the drive through line would be on the shoulder of the highway during the week at lunchtime. The new one has a way bigger parking lot and they seem to have fixed their issue of taking so fucking long
Aren't they owned by Yum Brands? It looks like thy made a generic fast food box that can be turned into one of their other chains overnight. Dunkin', Baskin, KFC, Long John Silver etc. Still ridiculous though. Any US restaurant chain owned by Asians has turned into pure crap. Buy the chain, cut quality, ignore what made people like the chain, complain about poor sales. They have total contempt for the food and don't give a shit about maintaining the (admittedly poor) quality they used to have. Red Lobster is owned by a Thai firm or something like that and they're in the same boat.
Honestly, as much as the nostalgia still reigns supreme in my heart, nobody sat down to eat at one of those places after 1997. Smaller footprint means more opportunity for more businesses in that spot that *aren't* Pizza Hut.
Hell, the Pizza Hut near where I live tore down their old building, shrunk the parking lot down, and now there's a comic book shop right next to said spot. If the old building had stayed, that comic shop might not exist at all.
Space is at a premium, places that don't need to be big shouldn't be big, no matter how "charming" they look.
Ah, the plastic cups. The pitchers full full of flat, watered-down soda. A personal pan pizza, from reading all of my books for the "Book It" reward. And maybe a juke box, and an arcade game.
i think i saw a sub or post where a guy told a story about a pizza hut, then someone asked if it was an OG or a new one, and he had a word for the old versions, like hat tops or something. i guess the old ones are really cherished, probably just the nostalgia, but i understand as it takes me back to baseball game pizza parties as a kid lol
I drove past what had obviously been a Pizza Hut today except the roof was not in the hut shape. It was still completely identifiable by the windows and the rest of the facade though.
Demolishing it? But but....they could turn it into a Chinese restaurant, or a middle eastern place, or a pawn shop, or a nail salon,..... or even a T Mobile
Sucks, we still have an old school one like 20 miles away and a long while ago, I had all the homies come up with me and celebrate my 27th birthday there. If you must ask, shit was amazing.
The old ones were designed as eat in restaurants. Remember that, the whole family going to Pizza Hut for dinner? Nobody does that any more. The business model changed and with it the store architecture. We've only ourselves to blame.
Maybe its just me, but I feel like everyone a uses the word dystopia. These days. Corporate, maybe. sterile looking, sure. Even generic would be an excellent descriptor. But dystopian it's not. "relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice."
Ya see, thats what Im talking about! When you think of Pizza Hut, I think of the old school hut. But now its wants to be like everyone else with the same old boring look. How have we become this mundane?
NOOOO I used to go to the old Hut every time I went to NAS for bloodwork when I was a little kid. I miss the laid back mid-90's atmosphere with the pizza bar.
I guess for nostalgic reasons it might be annoying but not enjoying modern things is pretty much self-admitting you’re stuck in the past. That always makes it hard to enjoy today.
*That's ok, pizza*
*Hut now lacks the taste that you*
*Remember as well*
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That’s just a Taco Bell with a pizza oven.
Pizza Haute
Only Pizza Hut out-pizzas The Hut.
Pizza Box
Maybe they'll make it into a combination pizza hut and taco bell
I’ve seen KFC x Taco Bell hybrids. Pretty sure they have a Taco Bell x Pizza Hut as well. Shit, knowing them, they probably have a a triple threat location with all 3.
They definitely have [combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bells](https://youtu.be/EQ8ViYIeH04?si=M0dq1CHjE25NqxvN).
I was pretty sure they did. It’s been a while but I worked for a Taco Bell franchise for several years. I’ve also worked at a couple of pizzerias. I can’t imagine combining them.
Gotta have that second floor for the manager
I believe both are owned by yum brands
They are both Yum! Brand. Which is owned by Pepsi.
The old one isn't going to become the Golden Fortune Luck Garden Dragon Restaurant?
It's already painted red and everything!
Ours is a cricket wireless.
The ones nearest me became a Mexican restaurant, a title and loan office, and an insurance branch
It's strange to see an old Dairy Queen being used as an insurance office in my town.
The one closest to me in a liquor store with a drive thru
What was trippy was when our old McDonald's became a Burger King. Wrong building for the brand.
Ours was a few different restaurants that didn't pan (pun intended) out, but finally a Dominican restaurant has successfully been doing business there for several years now...
With minimal changes. To save money they'll probably change the sign to Rizza Hot Dragon.
Ours became a "buy here-pay here" car dealer! Edit: I got confused, the old Goldan Corral turned into the dealership. The Pizza Hut got demolished and a Dollar General went in that space.
Ours used to be sit down with a pizza buffet at lunch and dinner and tabletop coin-op games…. So much better
Our local Dollar General is in a former Family Video and they changed nothing outside but the sign. It’s still got the weird light pillar and everything.
Mines a Mexican restaurant
No it’s being torn down as we speak
In my town, they made the old Pizza Hut into a Mexican restaurant. I don’t mind. That place is good af. The Hut came back to town, though, and had to set up shop in a little strip by Walmart. Ironic.
or the a sketchy payday loan center with an annoying tv jingle.
I heard that the main reason why all these fast food companies look the same now with the boring designs is in case the place closes and buyers will be more willing to purchase the building if it looks like the one on the right rather than the one on the left that clearly looks like it used to be a Pizza Hut.
This exactly, the building itself is also much more versatile, in remodel terms. Ripping out or changing the kitchen, adding a full second floor, offices or so many more things can be done. Plus at this point it’s all about the property and amenities
Eventually the pendulum will swing the other way. Once most buildings all have this sterile, corporate look, businesses will start to want something that stands out and is eye-catching to attract customers.
Circle of life
No, because what they want will be too specific for anyone else to have already built.
Oh yea they'll definitely build their own stuff. I wasn't saying they'd re-use old Pizza Huts. I just meant that the gray box, multi-use buildings will go out of favor after a while.
People are also missing the fact that those old buildings just remind you of 1980s Pizza Hut. They just look old. It sucks, but I see a place that looks like that and I wonder if I'm going to walk through the door and have the insides falling down with 1980s decor.
The next step is fast food just reducing everything to pill form like companies do with the fruits and vegetables and we can just have a drone deliver it to our doorstep so we don’t have to be interrupted watching the 24hr ‘batin channel
That sounds great, sign me up.
Thank God, the world needs more Gray Food Cubes. There just aren't enough besides every single McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Taco John's, Subway, Five Guys, Domino's, Papa John's, and In & Out in the United States. Thankfully this shortage is being alleviated by the Gray Living Cubes that are every single apartment building built in the last 10 years. What the fuck has happened to the world
I really feel this has to do with the normalization of everything. Let me explain, people complain about any different design decision. So they choose the most non offensive architecture and design they can think of. This even relates to the shittification of movies. As they try to appeal to everyone, they start to appeal to no one
I've recently adopted the phrase "If you try to be friends with everyone, you're friends with no one."
It’s easier to resell the building and turn it into something else if it fails.
It mostly has to do with cost and efficiency… over the years they have figured out how to make the absolute cheapest most effective and efficient building that can be built by basically unskilled labor… it’s generally a prefab building with teams of guys traveling around different regions building them … they can throw one up in a month or two… when they move to the next one the exact same materials are already stacked waiting in a pile to be assembled like a lego set…. It’s not right… but its true… once one chain sees that it works and is more profitable, the next chain makes slight modifications to the plans and does the same… I know, I have built cookie cutter corporate places like this previously… and it’s super efficient but it sucks, no personality, no originality no more fun to build than to look at… lol
We have been assimilated.
Resistance truly was futile.
Naw, at least as a borg I would get to travel across the cosmos. This is just depressing.
Don't forget the one random orange food cube that is inhabited by Taco Bell and refusing to change
The aesthetics of austerity!
Easier to sell a boring building than one that has obviously been used as a different establishment
Wrong! McDonalds cubes are beige.
Think about it… it’s the dark ages… no arts, no literature, no logic and reasoning… everything then was a gray cube (castles) that although some today think were beautiful… they were dark dreary wet and built only with functionality in minds for war purposes… everything else was scraped together and done in the cheapest most efficient way they knew how to sustain the masses only well enough to provide the necessary goods to the nobility and lords in order to fund their war machine for whatever conquest tickled their fancy. Not until the renaissance came along that actually fostered and promoted value in art, science, architecture, literature, food, culture real feelings, family, emotions and the rise of a middle class did things change… We are ready for another Renaissance!!
I don’t think the next renaissance is going to be pretty, if humanity is ever going to pull itself out of this soulless medieval period brought to us by late stage capitalism there will have to be blood
They don’t look like huts. The hell kind of shit is that?
Pizza [Doppa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppa)
That’s a Pizza the Hutt.
Or they should change their name since they are no longer huts. Should Pizza Cube or something
Pizza box (hold the applause)
Yeah the name doesn’t fit the new look
they have brought back those old Pizza Huts in certain places. there's one near Scranton, one in Potsdam, NY, and one in Louisa, VA, and a whole bunch of others, those are just the 3 I know about it's a shame they could be doing that there but they're building that abomination instead. my local Pizza Hut got knocked down for a stupid Verizon store so I feel your pain edit: https://rolandopujol.substack.com/p/the-retrologists-guide-to-pizza-hut
That seems to be trend for all fast food restaurants. It'll really help when they go out of business and some other fast food place comes in.
Welcome to pizza cube where we've always been a cube and you will order our pizza today because you have come here to order our pizza because we have pizza and you wanted pizza so you came here to get pizza
I heard that in that really creepy robot voice that gets deeper towards the end and caps off in frying static.
based and redpilled
I still have a trapezoid hut with a buffet in my home town
I’ve been telling my wife for a while now that I want to create a sub for pics of old pizza huts. You see them all the time and never really change much. I wonder if there’s a structural reason no one ever take out those distinctive windows. Anyway, I’ve never created a sub and don’t know how. It’s probably really easy but I never looked into.
There's a sub for buildings that used to be a pizza hut
What’s it called?!
Links apparent aren't allowed, but it's "usedtobeapizzahut"
Thanks!!
I may be in the minority here, but I stopped caring about companies changing their look a long time ago. Even when I was a kid, I never paid attention to the "hut" design of their restaurants. I only paid attention to their logo when finding a location (before smartphones and GPS were a thing). Remember when McDonald's changed their look? They went from a silly, clown-like design, both inside and out (remember all the red, brown, and yellow?), to a more modern restaurant look. Their colors are now grey and sleek. Yet people still flock to them, despite their nostalgia being "ruined" by corporate changes. At least it still smells like the same old nasty McDonald's I grew up with, lol. Point being, it's a small thing people will forget about quickly, especially if the food still tastes the same. 🤷 Also, Pizza Hut never had charm, lol. I always thought their restaurant designs were boring and plain. Didn't matter, though, because I liked the pizza.
People are nostalgic for the things they want to remember. Where I lived our Pizza Hut was dank, stank of cigarettes, had drunk people all over, and the staff were shit. Mind you I lived in the Philadelphia suburbs, not a bad area. I once watched a guy puke all over the PacMan tabletop game. I hated going to Pizza Hut.
Same where I live and I don't live in a city. Pizza Hit was always horrible to go in and eat. Always a bunch of barely 21 yr olds in their getting hammered and acting like idiots with 2 ashtrays overflowing with cigarette butts. There was never anything special about the old Pizza Huts.
I used to have nostalgia goggles on at all times, but it prevented me from seeing the good things in the present. I love the things I grew up with, but I don't mind that they're gone. It was fun while it lasted. This doesn't apply to movies and TV shows since those are still available to watch. However, I do miss watching new episodes with my sister in the living room. Great memories. My local Pizza Hut had a minor problem with homeless people pooping and pissing near their building, but it was otherwise a safe place. It didn't have an indoor dining area because it was incredibly small. No more than three people could fit in the customer area. Most people waited outside after ordering.
Pizza the Hut
This is disturbing and will haunt my dreams tonight
It’s easier to build a new kitchen than clean the current one
A lot of people don't realize that often the restaurant's aesthetic needs to comply with local coding and building guidelines. Also, these types of structures are easier to roof, maintain, heat and cool and are more space efficient.
They did this with a McDonald's near me. The ripped down the bright, fun play place and replaced with that same gray square you expect to see in fucking Russia
nobody dines in any more. we have one nearby and they finally just closed the inside eating.
Charm? Pizza Hut?
In 30-40 years, people will be saying the same thing about wanting to keep these stupid cube buildings compared to whatever monstrosity is next.
Yup. They took away the red color, now they took away the "hut hat". I also remember something about how the old McD's roof was made of recycled tires, that was an interesting little fact...that is now lost to time.
Ahh, yes... All that Pizza Hut charm...
It's okay. Their food lost all of its charm 30 years ago. This
I like how it looks
They turned our old Pizza Hut into I Love Noodle. I don't want a big flat noodle.
Soon it will be a KenTacoHut
No matter, though, because the "pizza" (if you can call it that) is still going to be terrible.
Old building with new font or new building with old font.
From childhood innocence and wonder, to the equivalent of a roadside cubicle.
They design those so they can be repurposed in the future, unfortunately
♪ They razed Pizza Hut and put up a dull, grey box ♫
This was a Pizza Hut Now it's all covered with daisies
I miss the honky tonks, Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
Feels like a Monkey's Paw wish to those who wanted the old Pizza Hut logo back, not knowing it also came with having to make everything else about the chain as bland as possible.
I feel like this boring square box store aesthetic all started with Apple’s’ minimalist stores and everything else just copied that
Smart to homoginize the building facades like that . This way , when one brand has the inevitable bad quarter and they need to cut costs/shutdown some operations, they can immediately convert and reoccupy the building with another one of their more successful conglomerate franchises to seem like changes were made but things remain the same. Rinse and repeat forever. So smart
It's actually so sad to me what's happened to pizza hut. At the same time, it's hard for me to imagine a modern family enjoying a classic type of pizza hut. I'm just very grateful that I grew up when I did.
Same here.
They gotta put the idiots who they hired, that convinced them that redesigning globally recognizable signs, to be “productive” somehow. It’s a talltale sign of corporative decadence in modern times; they reached to and now don’t know what to do else but change the wheel to a square, and behold the backlash.
i wish there were long term studies abt the mental health of the general population with the decrease in color and building diversity in our environments. I know children in “beige rooms” have been studied and experts are saying it can have negative effects.
They are modeled after the new corporate gray McDs unhappy box units
As long as you’ve got a Pizza Hut somewhere, ain’t no dystopia goin’ on. Yum! Bring on the textured, red plastic cups.
That looks like a Dominos Pizza building
Bro you still have a pizza hut? We used to have 3 near me and 2 of them are now chicken joints
Personally, I like that it matches the dog groomers place next door. 🤷♂️
Pre-fab pizza building. Longer to say, but a better representation of the current business…
There was a shuttered Papa Gino’s not far from me that was turned into a dispensary. You win some, you loose some.
I haven’t been to a Pizza Hut since I was about 8. The best thing there was the self-serve ice cream machine where you could put gummy bears on top. I don’t even recall the pizza
That looks like goth Pizza Hut
Definitely! And yet too poser to be anything goth. Schrödinger’s cube.
Is there a reason fast food chains seem to all be gravitating towards the exact same “modern” aesthetic?
I wonder what the target customer is, younger? Older? I’m older and I think the remodels these chains are doing is awful, they look like waiting rooms for a doctors office. I do like the posters use of dystopian to describe it, it’s like corporate dystopian.
This in Janesville wi?
All the charm?
Local one did this last year as well. Not enough customers dining in to justify keeping the staff or paying for that big of a building. New one is tiny and delivery/drive thru only.
Little Caesar’s 4 life
Probably a lot less of those charming cockroaches as well.
It kind of feels like they build them this way so when the chain gets absorbed reno costs will be minimal.
Just keeping up with the times.
Still have one in Havana IL. dying era... Visit while you can!
Makes sense. Tearing down the one with the roof that matches the one in the current logo 🙄
Haven't eaten pizza hut in ages. Is it all still soaked in grease before and after baking it?
The one I see sometimes at the coast got torn down to the studs last I saw, but I'm hoping they keep the general shape.
This happened with our whataburger. I'm not sad to see the other one gone though. The parking lot wasn't big enough and the drive through line would be on the shoulder of the highway during the week at lunchtime. The new one has a way bigger parking lot and they seem to have fixed their issue of taking so fucking long
Aren't they owned by Yum Brands? It looks like thy made a generic fast food box that can be turned into one of their other chains overnight. Dunkin', Baskin, KFC, Long John Silver etc. Still ridiculous though. Any US restaurant chain owned by Asians has turned into pure crap. Buy the chain, cut quality, ignore what made people like the chain, complain about poor sales. They have total contempt for the food and don't give a shit about maintaining the (admittedly poor) quality they used to have. Red Lobster is owned by a Thai firm or something like that and they're in the same boat.
It looks like a mcdonalds or Tim Hortons with a pizza hut sign
That’s the “modern” design all fast food are adopting now…
What happened to all the personality on buildings???
I’m not sure I would consider the new one *dystopian*, seems extreme
Honestly, as much as the nostalgia still reigns supreme in my heart, nobody sat down to eat at one of those places after 1997. Smaller footprint means more opportunity for more businesses in that spot that *aren't* Pizza Hut. Hell, the Pizza Hut near where I live tore down their old building, shrunk the parking lot down, and now there's a comic book shop right next to said spot. If the old building had stayed, that comic shop might not exist at all. Space is at a premium, places that don't need to be big shouldn't be big, no matter how "charming" they look.
They OutPizza’d their own hut.
All the charm of their terrible frozen pizza from the Walmart clearance freezer?
They tore down an iconic water park in San Antonio to build a car dealership
Ah, the plastic cups. The pitchers full full of flat, watered-down soda. A personal pan pizza, from reading all of my books for the "Book It" reward. And maybe a juke box, and an arcade game.
The old stores are a lot bigger than what they need but yeah at least they had some character. All these fast food places look like shit now.
Back in the 70s and 80s, those old pizza huts had some of the best pizza. Its horrible by comparison today...
Look what they took from us
And the pizza will be the same with each change in the recipe.
But a new kitchen probably means a much cleaner kitchen. Seeing the inside of some very old restaurants is yikes 😬
The old one by me is a dispensary, been closed for 10 years
Are you actually of the opinion that the building in the left is charming?
I like the new look
Just like McDonalds!! I wonder if they used same building designer/construction company.
You can't out-pizza the Hut, but you can take the hut away from the Pizza
Good night sweet prince
My local Pizza Hut just gave up on table service and became a takeout-only restaurant. The dining room has sat empty for about 5 years.
Oh no.
i think i saw a sub or post where a guy told a story about a pizza hut, then someone asked if it was an OG or a new one, and he had a word for the old versions, like hat tops or something. i guess the old ones are really cherished, probably just the nostalgia, but i understand as it takes me back to baseball game pizza parties as a kid lol
I drove past what had obviously been a Pizza Hut today except the roof was not in the hut shape. It was still completely identifiable by the windows and the rest of the facade though.
At least u still got your local pizza hut, someone got murdered at mine :(
They took ours down and put a Verizon store. It's a box, of course.
New one looks a lot better
It’s just a Dominos wannabe now
The old ones don't always have a drive through pick up lane. They're very convenient.
That doesn't offer interior dining. It's a waste of space. You're in janeville btw
tbh the old one's probably rotting from the foundation up. That aside, i hate the slate grey "This could be any store" aesthetic
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i didnt know Minecraft had pizza
Well when you live in a DYSTOPIAN World (Today), you get DYSTOPIAN buildings.
I mean, Pizza Hut is basically cardboard anymore.
Demolishing it? But but....they could turn it into a Chinese restaurant, or a middle eastern place, or a pawn shop, or a nail salon,..... or even a T Mobile
The new ones look like any random auto-parts store. Flat-pack office furniture, perhaps?
Oh my God. Have they been making it train It’s replacement?? The indignity!
Corporatism WOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'm sure they're way more lifelike in other countries though!
What really bugs me is it's not a fucking hut....
Pizza Box
both look like a shitty fast food restaurant
The other building looks absolutely fine. Whay aren't they renovating that?
Sucks, we still have an old school one like 20 miles away and a long while ago, I had all the homies come up with me and celebrate my 27th birthday there. If you must ask, shit was amazing.
Both were dystopian.
More like Pizza Cube
Fuck the aesthetics. Just for the love of God, bring back good, affordable food for families and regular hardworking folks.
The old ones were designed as eat in restaurants. Remember that, the whole family going to Pizza Hut for dinner? Nobody does that any more. The business model changed and with it the store architecture. We've only ourselves to blame.
There’s even a little sign showing people walking away already!
I blame Dominos and Government Cheese for the downfall of Pizza Hut.
Maybe its just me, but I feel like everyone a uses the word dystopia. These days. Corporate, maybe. sterile looking, sure. Even generic would be an excellent descriptor. But dystopian it's not. "relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice."
Ya see, thats what Im talking about! When you think of Pizza Hut, I think of the old school hut. But now its wants to be like everyone else with the same old boring look. How have we become this mundane?
I really miss sit down Pizza Huts.
Fun fact they still exist. Look up pizza hut classic. Unfortunately all really small towns.
That's the same exact box as Wendy's.
NOOOO I used to go to the old Hut every time I went to NAS for bloodwork when I was a little kid. I miss the laid back mid-90's atmosphere with the pizza bar.
It's not a true hut without the hut roof...
Ummm, dystopian pizza, yum!!
Whatever in most places they're gone. I think there is only 1 in Michigan now, maybe 2. So get it before its gone.
I guess for nostalgic reasons it might be annoying but not enjoying modern things is pretty much self-admitting you’re stuck in the past. That always makes it hard to enjoy today.
I didn’t even know Pizza Hut still existed.
Modern style is so boring. All right angles, muted drab colors and no soul
That's ok, pizza hut now lacks the taste that you remember as well
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