00:00In the hills of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, a familiar red roof catches the eye.
00:05Inside, the vinyl booths, Tiffany-style lamps, and yes, the salad bar you may remember from decades ago.
00:13I mean, it's amazing the comments we have about, they have the red cups.
00:18Yes, we do.
00:19Tim Sparks got his start working at a pizza hut that looked like this.
00:23He's now president of Dayland Corporation, which owns this franchise and more than 80 others around the country.
00:28They've redecorated many restaurants to rewind the clock.
00:32It looks exactly like the one that I remember from when I was a kid.
00:36Yeah, that's what we were after.
00:38Some pizza hut classics are now top-performing locations.
00:42Customers show up for a piece of their childhood.
00:44It just brings back memories.
00:46To share with their own kids.
00:47When you finally find something that tastes how you genuinely remember it tasting, you can't let it go.
00:55People come from two and three hours away, and I'm not making that up.
00:58More restaurants are serving up nostalgia.
01:00Franchises like Burger King and KFC return to old-school logos and packaging in recent years.
01:06At Pizza Hut, they even brought back Pac-Man.
01:09But for Sparks, this is much more than a game.
01:13It's a mission to rebuild places where families can connect.
01:17If we can get them in here, as a family, they do tend to put their phones down and actually
01:22have conversations and speak with each other.
01:24I'm not going to tell you I know how to fix the world, but I do think that family is
01:28a good place to start.
01:30He hopes to renovate more of his restaurants as long as he can find enough of those lamps.
01:34They're hard to get.
01:35Yeah, they're almost impossible to get.
01:38A familiar taste.
01:39Well, cheers.
01:40Cheers, bro.
01:41Bringing people together.
01:42Just like I remember it.
01:44Again, Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.
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