Benton County is out of Pizza Huts.
The restaurant in Vinton closed the day after Labor Day. It and 14 others in Iowa were shuttered as one of Pizza Hut’s largest franchisees filed for bankruptcy and announced it would close one-quarter of its properties. The Cedar Valley Daily Times reports this Pizza Hut, which opened in 1975, was among the most profitable in the chain.
The other locations meeting the same fate, according to KMCH Radio, were in Boone, Dyersville, Eldridge, Grundy Center, Independence, Iowa Falls, Le Claire, Manchester, Maquoketa, Newton, Oelwein, Tipton, Urbandale, and one of two in Dubuque.
Downtown Vinton has a Pizza Ranch, as does Manchester, so they’re not totally out of sit-down slice options. The bigger hit is in Grundy Center, which has two Casey’s but no longer has a spot for hungry fans of area sports teams on their way home. The Belle Plaine Pizza Hut has been gone for a few years, and the one in Toledo for longer.