What About Pizza Hut Are You The Most Nostalgic For?
That it was a treat, mainly. Something special. My immediate family was poor; we did not go to restaurants pretty much ever. Pizza Hut was something that was affordable and pretty good for a small town. It was one of the rare times I had food I actually enjoyed rather than just tolerated. When I knew I was going to get to go to Pizza Hut, I looked forward to it all week.
Their restaurants also used to be vastly better; they had salad bars, higher-quality food and better service.
And I personally always liked that they were very dimly-lit compared to other places. Made them feel kind of mysterious inside.
What I liked about Pizza Hut was during traveling (with mother doing pr work for traveling shows during summer in the 1980s).
Calling into Pizza Hut and picking up a pie to take back to the motel was an occasional treat, actually maybe cheaper than restaurants but a break from routine and a chance to abandon restaurant etiquette.
And for some reason….. room temperature leftover pizza is maybe my all time favorite breakfast.
Other than that I never much cared for Pizza Hut… Weirdly I liked Little Caesar’s.
That’s a nice memory.
I miss when restaurants used to feel like specific places, rather than all being indistinguishable grey boxes. We’ve decided everything must look horribly ugly and we’re stickin’ to it.
A girl I went to highschool with got a job waitressing at a Pizza Hut. We (her school friends) would go there and she would serve us pitchers of beer. We were all under age, nobody got hurt.
Not sure when that happened, but back in the 80s and early 90s (in the US at least) that sort of thing was a lot more tolerated.