The chains now sport nearly identical looks. One critic has called this trend “faux five-star restaurants” intended to make customers forget they are eating greasy fries and burgers. Many are shaped like boxes, decorated with fake wooden paneling, imitation stone or brick exteriors, and flat roofs. Most fast-food restaurants are built to maximize efficiency, not catch motorists’ attention. Goodbye bright colors and unusual shapes. Shifts in the restaurant industry, advertising and technology have made fast-food exteriors bland and spiritless, critics say. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty Imagesīut the fast-food architecture of today has lost its quirky charm and distinctive features. Business has remained strong at the location, Holmes said, declining to comment on the reason for the closure.Pizza Hut's red-roof restaurants have come down, replaced by sleek new designs. When the Hammond Avenue Pizza Hut opened, Charlie Moor of the Milwaukee Brewers was on hand to sign autographs. The Tower Avenue Pizza Hut closed following a fire in August 2003 and never reopened. The building, valued at $60,000, sported the “den-like atmosphere projected by other Pizza Huts throughout the United States,” according to an article in the Feb. Pizza Hut first came to Superior in 1973, opening a store at Tower Avenue and North 29th Street. The delivery will be offered through the Pizza Hut on Grand Avenue, Holmes said, and likely cover the Billings Park area as far out as North 26th Street.įor more information, patrons can call the Superior store number at 71. Plans are in the works to provide pizza delivery in some areas of Superior until a new store opens. In the meantime, the pizzeria’s eight employees have been offered positions at Duluth Pizza Hut locations. is closing, Holmes said, the pizza chain plans to build a new restaurant in Superior within the next year. “We will be back,” he said, just not in the same location.Īlthough the store at 623 Hammond Ave. The Pizza Hut restaurant on Hammond Avenue closed for good Monday.Īccording to manager Brandon Holmes, this doesn’t signal the end of Pizza Hut in Superior.
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