# It still looks like Pizza Hut... sorta **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923 "2003-07-21T14:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/21 "2003-07-22T00:51:06Z")
Lets see… The library across from where I grew up became a bank its now an insurance agent… One of the convenience stores in my neighborhood is a title loan place, the other is a distilled water outlet. Winchell’s Doughnuts became Pizza Hut! (Do I win a prize for finding one that turned **into** a Pizza Hut?) The other Winchell’s is a title loan place… ---
**Author:** ![juji\_mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@juji\_mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/juji_mojo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/22 "2003-07-22T01:24:41Z")
Hmmm in my town they tore down a sucessful Pizza Hut and replaced it with an unsucessful Taco Bell, which then became an Arby’s. Or it might have been the other way around, I hear this by proxy. It makes no sense but then my brother who worked at the Hut for an unnaturally long time\* said the owner was an idiot and an @$$hole… I once saw a place that had a number of incarnations, never lasted, but two I remember in sequence was a dog groomers which then became a take-out spaghetti place. (Akk, cough, removes fur from plate…)Eventually the place was torn down… \*As in my brother kept his highschool job for 5 years. Of course for six months of that he lived with me in Vancouver, and worked at a different Pizza Hut. ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/23 "2003-07-22T02:25:15Z")
In Houston, many old Pizza Huts now houses local taqueria chains. Taquiera Arandis comes to mind, but there are others. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/24 "2003-07-22T03:08:39Z")
Here in Roswell, GA. our local Pizza Hut is now a car rental place. On a side note, in my home town has a business that is a liquor store and an auto tag/drivers license business. (In Oklahoma, Auto Tag agencies are privately owned.) That always seemed like a funny mix. Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/25 "2003-07-22T05:44:17Z")
We had a bank that got turned into a bar, then a store, then a restaurant, then a bank again, then a restaurant again, the a BBQ place, it’s empty now. Through all the changes, it still looked like a bank. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/26 "2003-07-22T06:50:49Z")
One of the old Taco Bells around here reopened as a hamburger place called “Spanky’s”. I guess they had hand spanked hamburgers, because on the roof, they painted “Hand Spanked” in giant neon letters. I still laugh everytime I do past there. ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/27 "2003-07-22T07:24:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krisfer the Cat \* > \*\*Lets see… > > Winchell’s Doughnuts became Pizza Hut! (Do I win a prize for finding one that turned **into** a Pizza Hut?) > > \*\* Funny. Same thing happened in my town. There were actually 2 Pizza Huts though. One that was a Winchells. The other was Pizza Hut until it closed and became a Mexican restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![thatDDperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@thatDDperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatDDperson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/28 "2003-07-22T14:40:42Z")
My favorite ex-Pizza Hut is in Austin. It’s a Chinese restaurant, and in referred to as “the Chinese Pizza Hut”. Has been for 12 years, that I know of. A former Pizza Inn has become a ‘massage parlor’ wink, wink, nudge nudge… ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/29 "2003-07-22T15:11:13Z")
hmmm… OK, there’s an out of business Pizza Hut in my town. It’s just been purchased by the owner of one of the most successful restaurants in town. If the trend is correct, it’ll be a Mexican place soon. PleaseOHPleaseOhPlease! ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/30 "2003-07-22T15:13:40Z")
The Catholic Church some friends of mine were married in is now a bar! That’s just plain wierd… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/31 "2003-07-22T15:43:40Z")
There are two other deserted restaurants on the boulevard that have been empty over a year. Fazoli’s fizzled about 2 years ago. Lately, I’ve seen some tidying being done to the property, and the boarded windows are unboarded, but there’s no sign to indicate what’s going to be there. It started life as a steakhouse, then became a “Po’Folks” - Fazoli’s lasted the longest. Across the street is the former Applebee’s which closed late last June, and for months, the sign out front read “ReOpening July 3!” They’d started reroofing, but quit when there was only felt over the plywood. Most of the felt has blown away, so you know there’s water damage now in the roof. There’s a for sale sign out front. Oh yeah, and just up the street from these 2 is a former Boston Market that’s now a chicken wing joint. It’s across the street from the old movie theater that became Service Merchandise, and is now Office Max. Ah, the changing face of suburbia! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/32 "2003-07-22T16:37:15Z")
DC & Baltimore had the [Little Tavern](http://www.btco.net/ghosts/Buildings/tavetower/littaverns.html) chain, nearly all of which are now either gone or [converted to other uses](http://www.agilitynut.com/eateries7.html). The ones that kept the steep-pitched roof are easily recognizable. It seems the only classic Little Tavern still in operation is in [Ocean City, MD](http://www.oceancity.md/portal/Details.cfm?RestID=276). ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/33 "2003-07-22T17:00:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krisfer the Cat \* > \*\*The Catholic Church some friends of mine were married in is now a bar! > > That’s just plain wierd… \*\* Is that the one on 3rd or 4th west in Salt Lake City? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/34 "2003-07-22T18:17:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > **There was another Pizza Hut on SR 17, next to Long John Silver’s. It’s now a Mexican restaurant. Now that I think about it, it also had a lousy parking lot and poor access from the northbound lanes. Hmmm, mayhaps that’s the secret of Pizza Hut demise?** We too have a Pizza Hut with lousy northbound access and a bad parking lot, but it’s on the main drag of our little town and there’s no other sit-down pizza place for miles, so it stays in business. And what’s with the Brick Oven? When we lived in Virginia Beach one opened near us - they remodeled an entire storefront to put it in, must have cost some $$ - and it only lasted about a year. Really average food, and they were chronically understaffed. Fortunately a real Italian guy bought the place and the food there now is wonderful - pizza with real buffalo milk cheese! I miss it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923/35 "2003-07-22T18:41:56Z")
Some of these posts bring to mind: One of our Pizza Hut’s is now a law office! :eek: A Catholic Church in Salt Lake City?? That’s like a Baptist church in Springfield, MO! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-still-looks-like-pizza-hut-sorta/189923.md?page=1)