Pizza Hut buffet!

When we were out and about the other day, we noticed that the local Show Low Pizza Hut has a lunchtime buffet, so, a couple days later, we went to check it out...

The building doesn't look like an old Pizza Hut...

But the lunch buffet is back!

When we went inside (shortly after 11am), there were no pizzas on the buffet, so we asked at the front. They said that they wait until people order the buffet to stock it, and asked us what kind of pizza we wanted. Carl asked for Italian sausage, so they said they would make one for us to get from the buffet.

I guess they had some others that were being prepared for the buffet, because the first one was half ham/pineapple and half ham/jalapeno.

But the Italian sausage one came soon after!

The Pizza Hut also had a jukebox that could access the internet for the music to play - no turning records inside! This one can be controlled from an AMI Play app on a smartphone. I don't think anyone was playing music on it while we were there, but every few minutes a song would start up -- maybe folks who work there were using it (there weren't many customers there).

While we were there, Carl reminisced about the Book It! program (https://www.bookitprogram.com/) that his kids participated in when they were young. As they were homeschooling, Sue set reading goals for each child, and when they met their goal in a month, they earned a free personal pan pizza with one topping. Of course, Carl and Sue went too and enjoyed the buffet as their kids enjoyed their personal pan pizza. At that time, the buffet included a salad bar too (we got a side salad with our meal). Previously, they had a dessert pizza on the buffet (apple and glaze and sugar), but we had bread sticks -- one type with herbs, the other type had cinnamon and sugar. Both buffets (then and now) had pizza and pasta with sauce.

As this blog is a few days behind "real time" -- we went to Pizza Hut on Carl's birthday, so used the buffet to celebrate his birthday too!