I used to love to go to Pizza Hut as a kid. I don't think it was actually fancy, but it felt fancy to a kid. They had cool lights over the tables I remember. I don't think where I was they had alcohol. It was more of a place for people like I was, the family with the school age kids to go out but couldn't afford expensive restaurants. We never had pizza delivered. First pizza I remembered delivered I was 15, I was at the house by myself for the weekend, couldn't drive and I had some money so I ordered a pizza.
I don't know what happened to that though. I guess everyone got tired of their kids or it was taboo to expect them to be able to sit at a restaurant for an hour and not be disruptive or something. Or I guess everything had to be a trendy pub. No idea.
Markets change, especially as the entire world got less community/social oriented.
Look at what Doordash and similar did to restaurants and fast food in general. Now most of them are adapting towards a no human contact, almost half delivery customer base and that's likely to continue until the people that eat in are so few that its not worth the floor space to cater to them.
It just happened to pizza specifically earlier because delivery for them became normalized decades earlier.
Blows my mind that Pizza Hut only started delivering in 1990.
I've seen the stock photos of the dine-in experience from the 80s. We used to be a proper country.
I used to love to go to Pizza Hut as a kid. I don't think it was actually fancy, but it felt fancy to a kid. They had cool lights over the tables I remember. I don't think where I was they had alcohol. It was more of a place for people like I was, the family with the school age kids to go out but couldn't afford expensive restaurants. We never had pizza delivered. First pizza I remembered delivered I was 15, I was at the house by myself for the weekend, couldn't drive and I had some money so I ordered a pizza.
I don't know what happened to that though. I guess everyone got tired of their kids or it was taboo to expect them to be able to sit at a restaurant for an hour and not be disruptive or something. Or I guess everything had to be a trendy pub. No idea.
Markets change, especially as the entire world got less community/social oriented.
Look at what Doordash and similar did to restaurants and fast food in general. Now most of them are adapting towards a no human contact, almost half delivery customer base and that's likely to continue until the people that eat in are so few that its not worth the floor space to cater to them.
It just happened to pizza specifically earlier because delivery for them became normalized decades earlier.