LOCATION: Murfreesboro Road, Franklin, TN USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Attempted to “class up” Pizza Hut structure with bumped-out atrium entrance…but forgot they are still a title loan place. PHOTO: Van Wilson
Original Restaurant: Pizza Hut
BUSINESS: Subway/Tank Aquariums LOCATION: Pacific Highway, Belmont, NSW, Australia USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Because two bad conversions are better than one! Plus that fresh-baked-bread mixed with fish food smell is so hard to resist. PHOTO: Stew Raper
BUSINESS: Church’s Fried Chicken LOCATION: Merrill Road, Jacksonville, Florida USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Giant yellow signs so distracting you may have momentarily forgotten about pizza. PHOTO: Tommy Higgins
BUSINESS: American School of Jewelry LOCATION: Sunrise, Florida USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Truly a diamond in the rough! PHOTO: Chris & Allison Atkinson
BUSINESS: Enterprise LOCATION: Auburn, AL USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: When they pick you up, see if they can bring a pizza. PHOTO: David Thornton
BUSINESS: Huntington Learning Center LOCATION: Union Road at Orchard Park Road, Orchard Park, New York USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: If you want to get high school kids to pay to study for the SAT, you could
BUSINESS: Orlando’s Mexican Grill LOCATION: Clear Lake, Houston, Texas USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Relied on the trusty “put shutters up and pretend the windows weren’t trapezoids” method. NOTES: Also converted from El Lago Burrito Company PHOTO: Douglas Cudd
BUSINESS: First on Queensway LOCATION: Queensway, Prince George, British Columbia USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: It’s truly amazing how versatile the standard Pizza Hut store is. PHOTO: Douglas Koyama
BUSINESS: China Buffet LOCATION: Cabot Street, Beverly, Massachussets USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Once again, not even trying to fool anybody. Sigh. PHOTO: Don Small
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BUSINESS: Des Moines Police Traffic Unit LOCATION: Forest Ave, Des Moines, Iowa USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Oh my god! They turned a Pizza Hut into a Cop Shop! What, there were no abandoned Dunkin’ Donuts stores
BUSINESS: Pineda Tacos #2 LOCATION: Lake Street at Highland, Minneapolis, Minnesota USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Managed to tear off Pizza Hut lettering only to find it left marks. Then they threw some white paint up top,
BUSINESS: Oasis Pool & Spa LOCATION: Canton Road, Marietta, Georgia USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: If they can smooth out the hump in that rooftop, imagine how nice your in-ground calzone-shaped pool will look! PHOTO: David Hornbuckle
BUSINESS: The Hobby Store LOCATION: George Busbee Parkway, Kennesaw, Georgia USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: The Pizza Hut lunch buffet is like a hobby to some, so this is a fairly natural transition. PHOTO: David Hornbuckle
BUSINESS: Exterior Connections LOCATION: Main Street, Woodstock, Georgia USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: “I don’t know that I’d trust a business that does exteriors when they managed to make a Pizza Hut even uglier.” —David Hornbuckle PHOTO: David Hornbuckle
BUSINESS: Scarborough Funeral Centre LOCATION: Eglinton Avenue East, Scarborough, Ontario USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut…and before that, a Ponderosa!!! CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: I guess the direct chain from fast food to funeral home is sort of uh, poignant. (Pizza Hut,
BUSINESS: Capt’n Joes Galley LOCATION: Andrews Road, Murphy, North Carolina USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: The nautical blue paint job is nice, but the, uh, Capt’n’s ideas about apostrophes are truly baffling. PHOTO: Ernest Paik
BUSINESS: Chinese Hut LOCATION: Kennedy and Ellesmere, Toronto, Ontario USED TO BE A: Pizza Hut, duh! CREATIVE INTERPRETATION: Excellent re-use of the word “hut”. PHOTO: Liz Clayton