Pizza Hut is embracing the nostalgia

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justincredible

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May 27, 2026 2:40 PM

80s-90s Pizza Hut was peak. I will for sure be visiting the Zanesville location when new (old) design is ready. Eleven total locations in Ohio will be rebranded.


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queencitybuckeye

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May 27, 2026 3:05 PM

Will they sell high school kids beer without ID like they did in my HS years?


Ironman92

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May 27, 2026 5:10 PM

We used to get dropped off at the movie theater/bowling alley complex just outside of town the years before we could drive and after movie or bowling we’d all walk to Pizza Hut and enjoy it all. I would always do their cheesy garlic bread and put away an order of that appetizer…drink about a pitcher of Mt Dew….then we’d all walk about 1.5 miles home.


Times are a touch different now compared to 1988….but that Pizza Hut is still hanging on

majorspark

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May 27, 2026 6:52 PM
queencitybuckeye wrote:

Will they sell high school kids beer without ID like they did in my HS years?


Only if there is a cigarette vending machine at the front entrance.

geeblock

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May 27, 2026 7:20 PM

They would have to return to the old pizza recipe or all the nostalgia in the world would not get me tjere

justincredible

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May 27, 2026 9:17 PM
geeblock wrote:

They would have to return to the old pizza recipe or all the nostalgia in the world would not get me tjere

I haven't had it in a while so I have no idea what it tastes like these days. It was so good back in the day.

Ironman92

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May 27, 2026 9:23 PM
justincredible wrote:

I haven't had it in a while so I have no idea what it tastes like these days. It was so good back in the day.

It’s B- pizza more often than jot

TedSheckler

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May 28, 2026 7:13 AM

Can I use my old "Book It" coupons from elementary school for a free personal pizza?

geeblock

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May 28, 2026 8:57 AM
justincredible wrote:

I haven't had it in a while so I have no idea what it tastes like these days. It was so good back in the day.

they get it here for the kids at school for pizza parties and its inedible.  Nowhere near the way it was in the 80's-90's.  Definitely private equity turned it into the cheapest pizza they can make while still calling it pizza.

justincredible

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May 28, 2026 9:33 AM
geeblock wrote:

they get it here for the kids at school for pizza parties and its inedible.  Nowhere near the way it was in the 80's-90's.  Definitely private equity turned it into the cheapest pizza they can make while still calling it pizza.

Those mother effers.

jmog

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May 28, 2026 10:51 AM
geeblock wrote:

They would have to return to the old pizza recipe or all the nostalgia in the world would not get me tjere

Agreed, 80s/90s Pizza Hut was dang good. Current is BARELY better than the cardboard Little Caesars sells.

justincredible

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May 28, 2026 10:54 AM

Honestly think 80s/90s Hut was maybe the best pizza ever. Probably just nostalgia glasses making me say that, but it was fucking great back then. The crust was killer.