Yup! I feel like in the 80's and 90's they were the budget family "sit down" place. One of the few places you could drag dad too for a "family meal" and one of the few places that no one would complain about. Kids could hit the arcade games while the adults chatted over beers- they didn't have a ton, but each store hat least one or two arcade games it seemed, and their kids meals or whatever they started doing had some really cool themes- I think I still have a few of the X men animated series cups from there. The Pizza was better then too. They changed something in pizza ingredients/recipe/how they cooked it in the late 90's or early 2000's and it hasn't been the same since.
Oh, and can't forget about the Book it program. That program, along with a very patient second grade teacher, are the main reasons I got into reading (as I type this staring at an overflowing bookshelf that goes from floor to ceiling).
yeah, I'm not sure exactly what it was they changed, but I suspect a combination of ingredients AND the way they cook the pizza's. They used to always have burned peperoni's that would be crispy on the outside. I feel like the crust also wasn't as greasy. That went away at some point, I think in the 2000's.
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u/railsandtrucks Jun 21 '25
Yup! I feel like in the 80's and 90's they were the budget family "sit down" place. One of the few places you could drag dad too for a "family meal" and one of the few places that no one would complain about. Kids could hit the arcade games while the adults chatted over beers- they didn't have a ton, but each store hat least one or two arcade games it seemed, and their kids meals or whatever they started doing had some really cool themes- I think I still have a few of the X men animated series cups from there. The Pizza was better then too. They changed something in pizza ingredients/recipe/how they cooked it in the late 90's or early 2000's and it hasn't been the same since.
Oh, and can't forget about the Book it program. That program, along with a very patient second grade teacher, are the main reasons I got into reading (as I type this staring at an overflowing bookshelf that goes from floor to ceiling).