Pizza Hut In Silverton Is One Step Closer To Opening!

JIM STEAL

Driving south on Hooper Avenue in Silverton I notice something over the weekend that made me stop and take a couple of photos. The new Pizza Hut sign! The marque has gone up in the new strip mall that already houses an AT&T store at 1882 Hooper Avenue Toms River. This can only mean one thing. Pizza Hut is ready to drop their hat... or Hut, in the ring, when it comes to the glut of gluten in the Silverton section of Toms River.

JIM STEAL

As I have previously written about here, Hooper Avenue boasts no less than 9 straight-up pizza places in a little over a one-mile stretch, from the Brick border to Ocean County College. Pizza Hut will make it 10, and that doesn't include two restaurants in that stretch that also feature pizza on their menus!

Notwithstanding, it's not all overkill. When it comes to Pizza Hut, there are some very passionate fans. Folks who remember family weekend dinners, and childhood birthday parties inside the big "Hut". Some still talk about the much-loved Pizza Hut lunch buffet that was very popular from the 1970s through the 1990s. Well, my nostalgic friend, you can forget all that!

This is Pizza Hut 2023! A small walk-in storefront in a strip mall that has little room for dining compared to the glorious Pizza Huts we've come to know. It looks to be more like its current competitors of the day, Dominos and Papa John's.

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However, there is one thing I have heard about this particular Pizza Hut, that if true, will not only differentiate itself from those corporate counterparts but from the other local places on Hooper Avenue, vying for Silivertonian's pizza "dough". That is a Drive Thru! Yes, a freaking drive-thru! Ok, I'm in!

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Jimmy StealWriter

Believe it or not, Jimmy’s first job was overnights at a Christian Radio Station. He claims he got into radio because like Rocky Balboa once said, “cause I can’t sing or dance.” Jimmy loves to write about all local happenings, especially around his town of Toms River. Favorite Pastime (other than masturbation, of course): Cheering for the Yankees, and crying for the J-E-T-S!!! Favorite Food: Hot Sauce…I collect ’em! Favorite Drink: PRUNO…look it up, if you dare! Favorite Movies: The Exorcist, Planet of The Apes (the original), To Kill a Mockingbird, Annie Hall, and of course GF 1 & GF 2…I heard that’s how the real fans refer to them. Favorite Movie Line: easy…Murry-Caddyshack-“big hitter, the Lama”…f#$*in’ riot! Best Rat Rock Bands: STP, VH, ZEP, PEARL JAM, FOOS, PEPPERS,AC/DC Favorite New Bands: Glorious Sons, Rival Sons, Dirty Honey Most Embarrassing Moment: the moment my mother reads this shit! Best Day: I know a lot of folks say this, but it’s true: the day my little girl Jynell and my boy Big D were born! Next to that, it would have to be the day I was baked on earth day in Central Park and met Keefer Sutherland…baked too, I believe.