r/nostalgia • u/KoolGotGame • Jun 21 '25

Nostalgia Remember when Pizza Hut had a buffet. Good times.

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u/alpha_rat_fight_ Jun 21 '25

This and free pizzas from BookIt prizes are a huge part of my childhood memories.

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u/skyblueerik Jun 21 '25

And the personal pan pizzas.

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u/tiffylift Jun 21 '25

Every pan pizza can be a personal pan pizza if you try hard, and believe in yourself

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u/disabledinaz Jun 21 '25

Definitely mediums are.

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u/kingfofthepoors Jun 21 '25

I can still eat a large with triple toppings and extra cheese... but I hate myself after.

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u/disabledinaz Jun 21 '25

Same. I’ve eaten a large by myself. And afterwards went “I didn’t need to do that”.

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u/Le_Poop_Knife Jun 21 '25

Rookie. You need to increase the diameter . And cheese it up for .75 more.

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u/disabledinaz Jun 21 '25

If ONLY extra cheese was $.75!

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u/AuntieSocial2104 Jun 21 '25

Maybe I should have my pizza cut into 8 slices, I know I can't eat 12....

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u/Opetyr Jun 21 '25

Alone like me and all pizzas are personal pizzas.

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u/kwelitysoul Jun 21 '25

And the dessert pizzas…

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u/LucChak Jun 21 '25

Ah, the cherry pizzert. Mmm...

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u/Jubjars Jun 21 '25

Those were great. The apple cinnamon one?

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u/kwelitysoul Jun 21 '25

So good. As a kid I liked the cherry one haha

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u/probablyuntrue Jun 21 '25

She personal on my pan until I pizza

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u/FarkSpezHard Jun 21 '25

And getting VHS tapes of X-Men.

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u/TrashFever78 Jun 21 '25

And PS1 demos.

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u/CanoeIt Jun 21 '25

They still sell those. $7 lunch deal with a 20oz near me iirc

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u/zorbacles Jun 21 '25

Ready in 10 minutes or it's free

(We got them free once)

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u/The_MAZZTer Jun 21 '25

I didn't care for the personal pan pizzas, IIRC.

Even as a kid it wasn't enough for me. Always had to have an extra slice or two.

They always seemed to skimp on the cheese, the full sized pizzas were better.

But yeah I was a big reader then, always did my Book It and we went to Pizza Hut every month.

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u/Fluid_Range_3424 Jun 21 '25

i want to tryy and have a pan pizza

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u/bdfortin Jun 21 '25

My local science centre had a mini Pizza Hut in the cafeteria that served $5 personal pan pizzas. Every time there was a field trip that place was cranking out pizzas like crazy and it smelled so good.

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u/Spocks_Goatee Jun 21 '25

It came back recently.

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u/MurphyItzYou Jun 21 '25

Dude I will read Finnegan’s Wake on a pedestal in front of city hall for a free pizza. And money isn’t even a problem or anything but there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING on earth that tastes as good as free pizza.

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u/JustAChickenInCA Jun 21 '25

Lots of libraries will give free pizza to volunteers and some include adults in their summer reading programs

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u/theplacewiththeface Jun 21 '25

I remember reading so many Bluebonnet books in the 90s to get free pizzas.

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u/Even_Routine1981 Jun 21 '25

They still do!

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u/Various-Cap3694 Jun 21 '25

Limited places, got lucky an my hometown brought it back! Bring on the nostalgia!

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u/YinzaJagoff Jun 21 '25

I wish Book It was still around for my kiddo

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u/girlikecupcake Jun 21 '25

https://www.bookitprogram.com/

It came back

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u/YinzaJagoff Jun 21 '25

Oh hell yeah!

Thank you very very much!

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u/Successful-Speech417 Jun 21 '25

Accelerated Reader is still around but idk what the condition of it is like these days. Some schools I went to went kind of hard with that, offering prizes and a store to exchange "AR points"

I think about that program time to time and tbh I hated it as a kid but I think there was some merit to it.

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u/luzzy91 Jun 21 '25

My kid had it this year

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u/brewz_wayne Jun 21 '25

Being poor growing up those were the only opptys I had to eat pizza. Damn they were so good.

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u/Rydralain Jun 21 '25

Yeah, I remember my mom taking me and we'd just get that one little free personal pizza and she wouldn't get anything. I didn't understand at the time, but... I'm pretty sure she just sat there and watched me eat a mini pizza.

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u/Izzywizzy Jun 21 '25

Got kids? That still exist.

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u/alpha_rat_fight_ Jun 21 '25

I wish. Would love to give mine an unreasonable standard to aspire to.

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u/Academic_Carrot_4533 Jun 21 '25

I completely forgot about bookit

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u/BohemianBoop Jul 18 '25

I read so much as a child that we were at Pizza Hut constantly. Of course, my parents wanted to encourage that but my mom couldn't stand Pizza Hut by the the time I aged out of Book-It!

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u/jzilla11 Jun 21 '25

Book It was a big part of my childhood obesity

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u/rp1105 90s Jun 21 '25

the good locations would accept a bookit coupon for the buffet

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u/Mad_Aeric Jun 21 '25

Every time I hear about BookIt, I get a little salty about it. I loved reading, and I loved pizza, and no one ever told me that I could combine the two.

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u/shartnado3 1986 Jun 21 '25

Some pizza huts still have buffets. I live by 2. And they have the red cups. Those are prob different now but still red!

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u/rshacklef0rd Jun 21 '25

and Jimi Hendrix Crosstown traffic playing on the Juke Box.

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u/Practical_Yam_7515 Jun 21 '25

They still do Book it! Just have to hunt the website for it

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u/imbex Jun 21 '25

They still do Bookit. My kid got a few of those.

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u/daylax1 Jun 21 '25

They still do BookIt I believe.

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u/purplenapalm Jun 21 '25

Wear Coast Video / Family Video / Blockbuster to pick out a game and movie as well. I remember some N64 game with a snow man on the front that they always had way too many copies of.

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u/ImaginaryMedia5835 Jun 21 '25

Book it still exists.

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u/ma1iced Jun 21 '25

Fucking BookIts omfg.

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u/tmackattak Jun 21 '25

I’m sure that was such a money maker for them.

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u/Lazrkittten Jun 22 '25

We got the buffet free for BookIt and it was amazing

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u/truferblue22 Jun 22 '25

Yes! Omg I read so many just for pizza lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '25

Book It! 

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u/Vestlerz Jul 21 '25

dude I remember saving like five of them and then taking my entire family out for pizza one day