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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Could someone elaborate which empire this used to be, for the non-US users? ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think this was Pizza Hut?

edit: yup

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assumed this is a Pizza Hut based on the roof but they still exist so I'm not sure it fits?

I like the version of this meme that's a picture of a building with an outline of a former Sears logo on the front

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They still exist, but the Pizza Hut chain and it's remain restaraunts are shadows of what they used to be. Pizza Hut was awesome in the 80's. Now the old one near my house is a church.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Our Lady of Unlimited Salad Bar

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same for Olive Garden. Enshittification and placating shareholders came for them both.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...it's mind-boggling from today's perspective just how good the olive garden was in the eighties: we reserved a table for my graduation and it was a properly respectable dinner...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's hard for me to explain to people the unique tier that Olive Garden (and separately Pizza Hut) existed in.

There were many nicer Italian places than Olive Garden. It wasn't pretentious at all, but it was nice and ubiquitous. Maybe a little better than PF Changs today? (Not that I'm very familiar with PF Changs). No one would laugh at you for taking a date there.

Pizza Hut was more casual by far, largely because you'd have kids playing arcade games and whatnot. Pizza Hut was more family oriented, but still more classy than most things we have today.

Maybe Texas Roadhouse is closer to accurate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...in its prime, olive garden was very similar to red lobster: upscale suburban is perhaps a good description...

...these days they're both well past their prime and i'm not sure a similar national chain comes to mind; it seems like only regional chains are playing in that space...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now the old one near my house is a church.

This guy is really into pizza.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The closest one to my house is a liquor store now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Idk which is more depressing, your church or the other person replying and their liquor store

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

An extinct civilisation called Heetzah Putt, rumoured to be near the lost city of Atlantis.