Buffets, birthdays and brown paper bags – three memories that made Pizza Hut so iconic in the UK.

Brits were hit by a wave of nostalgia this week when the famous chain announced it would be closing restaurants after its operating firm DC London Pie plunged into administration.

It means around 75 branches could be closed with 741 jobs at risk.

The UK’s first Pizza Hut restaurant opened in Islington in 1973 – just two years after it became the world’s most popular pizza restaurant.

Many of us will have fond memories of piling as many slices of stuffed crust pizza onto a plate or going wild with the self-service ice cream machine.

But with dwindling popularity and the rise of more upmarket brands like Franco Manca, where did it go wrong for Pizza Hut? Beginning the brand

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