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This is the best summary I could come up with:
As a sit-down restaurant with servers and real plates and silverware, it made us feel grown-up; as an affordable, comfortable space where you could play Ms. Pac-Man, it was also perfect for a bunch of teenagers.
Decades later, I still can’t pass a hat-shaped building with a shingled roof and trapezoid windows (even if it’s currently a martial arts academy or a funeral home) without thinking about the lighting crew’s typical thin-crust, pork-topped pizza.
The draw to this location was the lunch buffet—itself a throwback to the past, and a relative rarity even among the Pizza Hut Classic locations—which drew families, police officers, and athletics coaches from Prairie View A&M.
I went to the location in Bastrop, thirty miles outside Austin, and spoke with Heather King, the restaurant manager, about the process of transforming a store that had been geared toward takeout and delivery into a sort of community hub.
She’s waiting on some pieces from the corporate office—she’s frustrated that she still has to serve drinks in plastic bottles, and she thinks the games will be a real draw—but she told me the locals are starting to recognize that Pizza Hut is coming back.
While she awaits more decorations, she’s got a football jersey from Bastrop High School on the wall, and the front of the store features a wooden “little free library”—with a red, two-tiered roof, naturally—to promote the Book It!
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