{"id":370509,"date":"2026-08-13T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370509\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:00:08","slug":"a-pizza-hut-north-of-tampa-is-bringing-back-the-80s-with-a-full-retro-makeover-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370509\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pizza Hut north of Tampa is bringing back the \u201980s with a full retro makeover &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOMOSASSA SPRINGS, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 A slice of the past is getting served up in one Florida town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Homosassa Springs, located an hour north of Tampa, a Pizza Hut location has brought back 1980s nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restaurant gave its dining room a retro makeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once inside, diners will find the iconic checkerboard table cloths, stained-glass lights and some traditional menu classics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Sparks, CEO of Daland Corporation, spoke out about the importance of family time and how his restaurant can help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor me, we don\u2019t seem to have a lot of family time, group time together where we\u2019re not staring at screens, and it seems like when people come in, this nostalgia, if you will, takes them back to a time we didn\u2019t do that,\u201d he said  CEO Tim Sparks. \u201d And it\u2019s interesting, you look around right now, nobody\u2019s looking at their phone. A lot of people mention the smell, right? I mean, they come in and this kind of like, \u2018Wow, it smells like what I remembered.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concept has worked for this Pizza Hut location, as many visitors have waited over an hour to dine in.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOMOSASSA SPRINGS, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 A slice of the past is getting served up in one Florida town.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-370509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}