Hell when I was dining at Pizza Hut they didn’t yet have wings or breadsticks. Pizza was much better back then, just like everything else, including a Big Mac
Saw this video and brought lots of memories. Pizza has always been my favorite and it also rub on to my kids that when I saw your video it makes a perfect halfway point to meet up with my oldest that lives in Dallas to meet up and relive that childhood memory of mine groaning up in the 80’s. Definitely a great video
Growing up Pizza Hut was a great family restaurant experience. They used to have a great pasta dish on their menu called Cavitinni, a variety of pastas shapes with peppers, onions, sausage and pepperoni in a thick tomato sauce
I would love it if other resteraunt chains did these throwback stores especially mcdonalds with the classic red roof and playplace i hope that happens someday
We were lucky enough to still have a dine-in Pizza Hut near us growing up in the 2010s and I remember the red cups, sticky floors, arcade games, and the paper towel holders at the tables. Pan pizza used to be and still is my favorite pizza. Unfortunately, it closed and now is a Boston Market, with the roof shape still there (I can't remember whether the windows were changed). It's a shame it didn't stay open so it couldn't have become a classic store. Getting pizza in a cardboard box isn't the same as when it was brought to the table in the pan right out of the oven.
We have an open Pizza Hut dining room here. Ate there less than a month ago 🙂 just for the experience. There was only one other occupied table that came in after we did. The real issue I see with the Hut is that it gets pricey real quick. We bought a dinner box (small one), New Yorker, and a 2-liter and it was over $45 after tax somehow.
If you’re ever back in Maryland there’s a unique Pizza Hut restaurant on rolling road in Baltimore county . It has a very unique structure with windows because it’s on the corner of a shopping center and the restaurants design is old school. Not sure how much longer it will last because yelp reviews are bad but I’m glad that it’s still here when I pass it everyday
I love the look of it.. reminds me of the one that used to be off of Hulen and Grandbury in Fort Worth.. we still have one in the Northside but they stopped letting people inside to eat since 2019 so it's usually always empty now..
Finally a chain that honours and celebrates its history! I hope they bring out some of these to Canada too. I have a dine-in Pizza Hut 5 minutes from me in Vancouver that still has the "hut" roof, but its grey instead of red ..I dont think they do the dine-in anymore....Not enough interest, or staff? But like, the building is SO HIDDEN lmao...Its in a bad spot, hardly anyone knows its there I think. I hope they'll start the dine in again, its so small that it would be easy to handle the 2 tables at once 😆 Really awesome pizza....I still think Pizza Hut does pan pizza better than anywhere else. Cool video, I love the photos!
Yeah that's how most the chain has gone. They've really downsized to just take out counters with a couple of tables or none at all, so it's refreshing to see these retro locations popping up and I really hope the trend catches on!
YESS!! There's one in Ohio that I plan on going to someday! My childhood Pizza Hut was torn down. There's a few Target locations that sell personal pan Pizza Hut pizzas and I had one last year and it actually made me cry happy tears cause it tasted so much like what I remembered from my childhood.
We used to go to Pizza Hut all the time when they had the Priazza which had two layers of crust. They were so good. Maybe they’ll bring them back someday.
That always had the kids happy getting their free pizza and handing over their little certificate for reading, I'd make them whatever they wanted, not just one topping lol
I live in the Waco area. When I was in high school, my best friend and I went to the Pizza Hut across the street from the school at lunch every day with $5 in each our pockets. That got us the lunch buffet every day, and we were happy with that.
I grew up near Glenwood Springs Colorado and they had the buffet. One price for all the pizza, salad, bread sticks and desert you could eat. It was the best. I wish they would bring them back. I rarely go to pizza hut but the last time I went they wanted to charge me for the packets of parmesan cheese. It's obvious they are in trouble and probably won't be around much longer.
The thing that's missing at this Pizza Hut Classic is the Early American mate's chairs. The mate's chair is distinctive for it's "guitar body" shaped seat, ornate spindle back, and elegant and curved scolloped back rail, with the "hand hold" for doing the gentlemanly thing for your sweetheart. Pizza Hut is where I first saw that style of dining chair, and sat'n one for the first time as a six year old child in 1969. As I climbed up into the chair, gripping the seat by the edges, I noticed the in-curves, which give the chair's seat the guitar body shape. Previously, I had never seen a chair with a guitar body shaped seat. I myself have a red checkered table cloth on my dining table at home, and four genuine mate's chairs around the table. I also have a custom made bass guitar with an actual mate's chair seat for it's body. It has the holes where the spindle back used to be, and the concave carvings for the sit bones. While everyone else looks at the mate's chair as an ordinary dining chair, I myself look at it as an ICONIC dining chair. To me the mate's chair is like a "Christine" car, Stephen King's '57 Plymouth Fury. I look at the mate's chair's guitar shaped seat the same way one would look at Christine's tail fins.
Yep, remember these. They were actually a pizzeria instead of a reheateria. Pizzas would come out on a metal platter and it always had the proper char on top. They had a full salad bar and draft beer. For softball kids, this was where your dad went after games. If daddy got buzzed enough you could beg 10 bucks worth of quarters to play video games. Making it home? Well, that was always interesting.
Love your content, this is as close as we're going to get to a time machine. (other than visiting it ourself) Pizza Hut pan is my favorite over all the other chains.
I miss the Pizza Hut of this era, my parents would take me and my friend on a Friday after school once a month. The main draw was that they had a MK2 arcade machine that we dumped endless amounts of quarters into. I remember there being a jukebox in those as well. I miss the 90’s man….
My childhood pizza hut was amazing. They had a jukebox, moonwalker arcade, and afterburner arcade. I remember getting my book reading sticker club personal pan pizzas and even turning in the free one from the TMNT NES game. The pizza and sauce back then was the best. Now it's more hit or miss with more misses and super greasey. Maybe they'll open one of these near me. I'd love to give it a try and atmosphere changes things. Maybe just maybe the food would be better?
@SetsStreetsEats love your channel. You led me to BBWL, the three stage CEC in Charlotte near me, and now there is a classic pizza hut in Albemarle, NC. You da man! Gonna go eat there very soon.
A Classic management / Education story. Pay kids to read, they read the biggest font possible and the shortest books. They quit reading when the pepperoni goes away EVEN when they loved to read big books in the beginning. Stop F'ing up reading. see Alfie Khon.
I went to this location Sunday and it was absolutely terrible. They had the red cups and refused to serve my drink in them because they didn’t want to wash them, so I got plastic. The waitress wouldn’t speak, she just walked over and awkwardly stared. The restaurant was filthy dirty and the table cloths were faded to yellow. I left without eating, drove back to Dallas and ordered a stuffed crust. So sad. This video got me excited
That looked pretty awesome. I will say, that personal pan still didn’t look 100% correct, as I remember the tall sides and it being crispy on the outside of the crust all the way around, maybe my memory doesn’t serve correctly, but served in the cast iron pan made all the difference!
My channel was always this before and then I started sprinkling the Chuck E Cheese visits in along with other stuff like this so it's always going to be a mix.
I want to go, but they are trying to shove too many tables into that dining room. You can't even get through to your table. I do like your "Showbiz Pizza" t shirt.
Pizza Hut sucks now. It honestly used to be the best pizza ever! Anybody remember the "Book It" program in grade school? Every month I'd get that personal pan pizza. Good times. Fun fact Pizza Hut used to be the #1 buyer of kale in America. Just for the garnish on their salad bars. Then we started eating that crap!😂😂😂😂
You are lucky to find those. Remember the Classic Pizza Hut. Cheers buddy...
My local dine in Pizza hut closed and moved this summer. They were so cool!
In the summer of 1984, Pizza Hut had a BBQ pizza that was so awesome...ahhh...the good old days!
There is a Pizza Hut classic about 45 minutes away from I live. I'm planning on going there tomorrow. It even has a Pac Man arcade cabinet!
I love old fast food restaurants! Really cool that you have decided to check these out!
Thank you, I'm so glad you're enjoying them!
Eating a personal pan in an original Pizza Hut is on a different epic level
Back in high school, my buddy worked at a Pizza Hut. We would all hang out there and get free breadsticks. Tried my first ever buffalo wing there too.
Hell when I was dining at Pizza Hut they didn’t yet have wings or breadsticks. Pizza was much better back then, just like everything else, including a Big Mac
Remember. Pac-Man. Juke. Box
can’t believe these still exist, that’s cool
Considering the fact that I’m 16 and have never heard of a book it till this video, safe to say they aren’t around anymore. Love your videos!
Saw this video and brought lots of memories. Pizza has always been my favorite and it also rub on to my kids that when I saw your video it makes a perfect halfway point to meet up with my oldest that lives in Dallas to meet up and relive that childhood memory of mine groaning up in the 80’s. Definitely a great video
I’ve eaten Pizza Hut take out before,it just doesn’t hit the same anymore as the old classic feeling
Where in Texas. Still good. Still open
Nice, There is one in Woodfin, NC near where I live in Weverville NC 🥰
Miss their lunch buffet.
Growing up Pizza Hut was a great family restaurant experience. They used to have a great pasta dish on their menu called Cavitinni, a variety of pastas shapes with peppers, onions, sausage and pepperoni in a thick tomato sauce
I would love it if other resteraunt chains did these throwback stores especially mcdonalds with the classic red roof and playplace i hope that happens someday
We were lucky enough to still have a dine-in Pizza Hut near us growing up in the 2010s and I remember the red cups, sticky floors, arcade games, and the paper towel holders at the tables. Pan pizza used to be and still is my favorite pizza. Unfortunately, it closed and now is a Boston Market, with the roof shape still there (I can't remember whether the windows were changed). It's a shame it didn't stay open so it couldn't have become a classic store. Getting pizza in a cardboard box isn't the same as when it was brought to the table in the pan right out of the oven.
It looks a lot like i remember it looked in the 70s
I live in Fairfield when I seen this pop up on my recommended I was like whatttt?!!
I remember bringing my report card for a personal pan and my local Pizza Hut has the classic all you can eat salad bar❤
We have an open Pizza Hut dining room here. Ate there less than a month ago 🙂 just for the experience. There was only one other occupied table that came in after we did.
The real issue I see with the Hut is that it gets pricey real quick. We bought a dinner box (small one), New Yorker, and a 2-liter and it was over $45 after tax somehow.
I am happy that you do not shun the small town locations. I work here in Fairfield and live in one of the smaller towns in the area.
Man I got to get to this place. Glad this video came across my feed. Subscribed!
I miss these old Pizza Hut , oh the smells and memories .
If you’re ever back in Maryland there’s a unique Pizza Hut restaurant on rolling road in Baltimore county . It has a very unique structure with windows because it’s on the corner of a shopping center and the restaurants design is old school. Not sure how much longer it will last because yelp reviews are bad but I’m glad that it’s still here when I pass it everyday
The location looks really nostalgic my local Pizza Hut recently closed
I love the look of it.. reminds me of the one that used to be off of Hulen and Grandbury in Fort Worth.. we still have one in the Northside but they stopped letting people inside to eat since 2019 so it's usually always empty now..
Nice vid! There's a new "old" remodel about an hour outside of Houston. According to an article it's due to get a Pac-Man machine as well.
From at least 1976 to 1984 approx. each table had a red candle and the lighting was darker to add ambience.
Finally a chain that honours and celebrates its history! I hope they bring out some of these to Canada too. I have a dine-in Pizza Hut 5 minutes from me in Vancouver that still has the "hut" roof, but its grey instead of red
..I dont think they do the dine-in anymore....Not enough interest, or staff? But like, the building is SO HIDDEN lmao...Its in a bad spot, hardly anyone knows its there I think.
I hope they'll start the dine in again, its so small that it would be easy to handle the 2 tables at once 😆 Really awesome pizza....I still think Pizza Hut does pan pizza better than anywhere else. Cool video, I love the photos!
Yeah that's how most the chain has gone. They've really downsized to just take out counters with a couple of tables or none at all, so it's refreshing to see these retro locations popping up and I really hope the trend catches on!
YESS!! There's one in Ohio that I plan on going to someday! My childhood Pizza Hut was torn down. There's a few Target locations that sell personal pan Pizza Hut pizzas and I had one last year and it actually made me cry happy tears cause it tasted so much like what I remembered from my childhood.
Wow!
Still good
We used to go to Pizza Hut all the time when they had the Priazza which had two layers of crust. They were so good. Maybe they’ll bring them back someday.
My dad used to ALWAYS hit his head on the glass lamp shades every time he got up. He constantly forgot about it. 😮
That always had the kids happy getting their free pizza and handing over their little certificate for reading, I'd make them whatever they wanted, not just one topping lol
Hi crish this video is soo cool the Classic pizza hut cool. Hi crish have a great summer.
Salad bar and all?
I live in the Waco area. When I was in high school, my best friend and I went to the Pizza Hut across the street from the school at lunch every day with $5 in each our pockets. That got us the lunch buffet every day, and we were happy with that.
I grew up near Glenwood Springs Colorado and they had the buffet. One price for all the pizza, salad, bread sticks and desert you could eat. It was the best. I wish they would bring them back. I rarely go to pizza hut but the last time I went they wanted to charge me for the packets of parmesan cheese. It's obvious they are in trouble and probably won't be around much longer.
Funny enough I live really close to one here in NC
My daughter got the free pizza for reading ! I didn't even know it was a thing til she brought it home 😅
I like the new intro
i didn’t know they had these classic stores, they look awesome
This classic pizza hut set up was the second best spot to enjoy good pizza after the classic phase 1-3 chuck e cheese too..💯
The thing that's missing at this Pizza Hut Classic is the Early American mate's chairs. The mate's chair is distinctive for it's "guitar body" shaped seat, ornate spindle back, and elegant and curved scolloped back rail, with the "hand hold" for doing the gentlemanly thing for your sweetheart. Pizza Hut is where I first saw that style of dining chair, and sat'n one for the first time as a six year old child in 1969. As I climbed up into the chair, gripping the seat by the edges, I noticed the in-curves, which give the chair's seat the guitar body shape. Previously, I had never seen a chair with a guitar body shaped seat.
I myself have a red checkered table cloth on my dining table at home, and four genuine mate's chairs around the table. I also have a custom made bass guitar with an actual mate's chair seat for it's body. It has the holes where the spindle back used to be, and the concave carvings for the sit bones. While everyone else looks at the mate's chair as an ordinary dining chair, I myself look at it as an ICONIC dining chair. To me the mate's chair is like a "Christine" car, Stephen King's '57 Plymouth Fury. I look at the mate's chair's guitar shaped seat the same way one would look at Christine's tail fins.
Yep, remember these. They were actually a pizzeria instead of a reheateria. Pizzas would come out on a metal platter and it always had the proper char on top. They had a full salad bar and draft beer. For softball kids, this was where your dad went after games. If daddy got buzzed enough you could beg 10 bucks worth of quarters to play video games. Making it home? Well, that was always interesting.
I wish there was a dine in pizza hut near me. Cool video!
My Pizza Hut that had around this same interior closed and then turned into a diner. They kept the same building shape though.
Love your content, this is as close as we're going to get to a time machine. (other than visiting it ourself) Pizza Hut pan is my favorite over all the other chains.
So true, thanks for the support!
I remember when i had a pizza hut near me idk what it use to look like but now its it clossed down and changed.
I miss the Pizza Hut of this era, my parents would take me and my friend on a Friday after school once a month. The main draw was that they had a MK2 arcade machine that we dumped endless amounts of quarters into. I remember there being a jukebox in those as well. I miss the 90’s man….
please go to Northridge California chuck e cheese they have both a 2 stage and dance floor and i love your vids too Chris
I miss the buffets
Nice. I grew up with the original pizza hut personal pan pizzas as well. Wow i miss that.
We had an OG Pizza Hut just a few years ago. Built a new one and shut the old one down.
I remember when they brought out the big cast iron pans with your pizza in it.
i can smell the garlic already.
I really wish one of these would come within 2 hours of Los Angeles. I would be there. This is a core childhood memory.
Now I have to have pizza hut
There's an original Pizza Hut, totally untouched and eat in style located in Salem OH right on State St across from Stadium GM car dealership.
Yum now I want one 😅
That looks like cool pizza hut
Noble Romans personal pizzas were popular. Think they were mostly Midwest though iirc ❤
Pizza Pete kinda looks like Little Ceasar in different clothes. It’s like some bazaar “concept Unification” process.
Lol very true
“Remove mask,Lionclothe and spear,install the Pizza Pete,mask,and outfit”
🍕🍕 I worked at one in the 80's , those rayon uniforms were terrible 😅😂🤣
I was worried about not seeing any of the nasty red plastic cups. You came though at 3:43. I remember those the most. lol
Damn this takes me back to book its in the early 90s, we had mortal kombat, at mine.
I use to cheat on book it to get my personal pan pizza. Lol. Nostalgia
Didn’t they also offer pitchers of soda? You could refill on the fly yourself
I miss Pizza-Inn
That was my favorite.
I miss Pitt grill as well.
Remember the Bigfoot?
My childhood pizza hut was amazing. They had a jukebox, moonwalker arcade, and afterburner arcade. I remember getting my book reading sticker club personal pan pizzas and even turning in the free one from the TMNT NES game. The pizza and sauce back then was the best. Now it's more hit or miss with more misses and super greasey. Maybe they'll open one of these near me. I'd love to give it a try and atmosphere changes things. Maybe just maybe the food would be better?
Those are awesome memories, the afterburner arcade game was one of my all-time favorites!
@SetsStreetsEats love your channel. You led me to BBWL, the three stage CEC in Charlotte near me, and now there is a classic pizza hut in Albemarle, NC. You da man! Gonna go eat there very soon.
@@justinludwig3995 That's awesome! It's always cool to help people that have the same interests 🙂
If you are looking for more places with animatronics I would recommend Great Wolf Lodge. They have 2 different stage types.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check them out!
Still open
A Classic management / Education story. Pay kids to read, they read the biggest font possible and the shortest books. They quit reading when the pepperoni goes away EVEN when they loved to read big books in the beginning.
Stop F'ing up reading. see Alfie Khon.
Do a pizza inn comparison!!👍👍👍
Can you go to the Chuck E. Cheese headquarters
They are no longer allowing public tours unfortunately 😞
Hopefully there are dozens more of classic pizza hut locations around the world like this as they better not do like CEC 2.0 at update them..smh
Does it taste the same as it did in the 80's? Does Pizza Hut Classic taste different from the regular Pizza Hut?
I went to this location Sunday and it was absolutely terrible. They had the red cups and refused to serve my drink in them because they didn’t want to wash them, so I got plastic. The waitress wouldn’t speak, she just walked over and awkwardly stared. The restaurant was filthy dirty and the table cloths were faded to yellow. I left without eating, drove back to Dallas and ordered a stuffed crust. So sad. This video got me excited
That looked pretty awesome. I will say, that personal pan still didn’t look 100% correct, as I remember the tall sides and it being crispy on the outside of the crust all the way around, maybe my memory doesn’t serve correctly, but served in the cast iron pan made all the difference!
Agreed!
hey remember America 🙂
So will the channel be more is this since Chuck E. Cheese is going to the new layout and no more animatronics?
My channel was always this before and then I started sprinkling the Chuck E Cheese visits in along with other stuff like this so it's always going to be a mix.
Can't understand why they would not have a Miss Pac Man or Astroids at this location....'classic' and all
the reason its called pizza hut is because the sign they had only could hold 8 letters when first opening
How come you did not eat pizza at Chuck-E-Cheese?
I eat Chucky Cheese pizza all the time, this video isn't even Chuck E. Cheese, what in the world are you talking about?
Uhhh We Still Have One Located In Georgetown Ohio...
Did you get your personal pizza free?
No, I did not, if only I had read just a few more books lol
I want to go, but they are trying to shove too many tables into that dining room. You can't even get through to your table. I do like your "Showbiz Pizza" t shirt.
All I know is the pizza hu5 takeout is garbage
Pizza Hut sucks now. It honestly used to be the best pizza ever! Anybody remember the "Book It" program in grade school? Every month I'd get that personal pan pizza. Good times. Fun fact Pizza Hut used to be the #1 buyer of kale in America. Just for the garnish on their salad bars. Then we started eating that crap!😂😂😂😂
I LOVED THAT PAN THEY WOULD BRING TO THE TABLE THANK THE LAWYERS FOR NOT HAVIGN THOSE ANYMORE!
Acarde. Games.