"We are, truly, a nation of defunct Pizza Huts" [View all]
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We are, truly, a nation of defunct Pizza Huts
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You have entered the ghost of a Pizza Hut. Savor the moment as you would a personal pan pizza.
Like a stuffed crust, the closure of hundreds of Pizza Huts after the Covid-19-related bankruptcy filing of its largest franchisee is a lot to take in.
But unlike most of the heavy-handed metaphors 2020 doles out, there’s a way to look at this one as both the death of the American dream and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit capitalism.
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There are so many old Pizza Huts that are turned into something else that there are very few towns in America that don’t seem to have an old Pizza Hut that is now a laundromat or a title loan place or something like that,” Mike Neilson, owner of the blog Used To Be A Pizza Hut, told The Daily Beast. His blog, as well as a popular subreddit, share pictures of repurposed Pizza Huts.
Sometimes tenants in old Pizza Huts try to disguise the building’s past by painting the roof a color other than red, or surgically removing the pyramid-like structure at the top of the place. They’re not fooling anyone, Neilson argued."
The bravest hearts choose not to run from ghosts, instead embracing what once was and making it a part of what will be.
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There’s one in New Jersey that just calls itself ‘Liquor Hut,’” Neilson said. “
They were just like, ‘Nope, we’re just going to stick with the Hut. This shape is Hut, everyone knows this is a Hut, we’re just going to sell liquor, and now it’s Liquor Hut.’”
"So, it’s bad, but not Blockbuster bad, if you know what we mean."
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