{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-04T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2023-06-26T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T03:11:15","slug":"pizza-hut-broad-river-rd-jan-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Hut, 1929 Broad River Road: January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pizza Hut on Broad River Road found itself in a less than ideal location after the implosion of Service Merchandise and the downscaling of Dutch Square. Still they hung on until they had a chance to move to the new Wal-Mart location on Bush River Road, which they have now done.<\/p>\n

I can only remember eating there a few times over the years. It's interesting to me how during the time I've been buying my own meals, Pizza Hut has gone from being a \"nice\" place to eat to a sub-par fast-food experience. They have always had a problem over the years with the customer being able to figure out whether to pay the server or pay at the register, but they used to have a fairly good food and reasonable service.<\/p>\n

It seemed to me that the food started going down-hill in the 90s, and the service, including the kitchen staff followed quickly. For me the final straw was when a lot of locations started serving \"fountain\" ice tea instead of fresh brewed. I recall being at a location in Lauringburg NC, and sending my tea back as I could taste that there was \"something wrong with it\". The waiter commented \"yeah, a lot of people say that since we switched.\" I was kind of flabbergasted that the store had an obvious problem which people were giving them feedback on, but about which they apparently did not care. The most recent time I stopped at a Pizza Hut was in Walterboro when I could find nothing else reasonable looking off of I-95 that was still open. The tables hadn't been wiped, I sat for 20 minutes without a drink or my order being taken, the ice tea was fountain, and the cook hadn't been taught how to cook the garlic bread orders (apparently there is an opening half-way through the oven where you are supposed to insert a garlic bread tray, but he ran it all the way through).<\/p>\n

So, that's a bit of venting about Pizza Hut in general. It's not fair to put it on the Broad River one, but I don't think I'll be visiting the new location.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 23 May 2011<\/b> -- Here's a picture of this Pizza Hut<\/i>'s new location in the Wal-Mart<\/i> plaza on Bush River Road:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 15 September 2012<\/b> -- The old Broad River Road building is now a title loan operation:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 26 June 2023<\/b>: Updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n

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