Why Pizza Hut Helensvale has shut doors
Fans of a longstanding northern Gold Coast pizza restaurant have been puzzled by its sudden closure. But there’s hope for hungry punters yet.
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PIZZA lovers on the northern Gold Coast have been left puzzled after a longstanding restaurant quietly shut its doors.
The Pizza Hut on Sir John Overall Drive in Helensvale, which has had a slice of the local takeaway market for many years, stopped taking orders last week.
The restaurant also disappeared from the chain’s list of outlets online, while it is listed on Google as “permanently closed”.
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However a spokesperson for Pizza Hut has offered a crumb of comfort for hungry diners, saying the restaurant is merely closed for renovations.
“The store is undergoing an internal/equipment upgrade and will be reopened to serve the Helensvale community even hotter tastier pizza quicker by the end of October,” the spokesperson said.
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The news will come as a relief to fast food lovers unhappy by news that the nearby Red Rooster – which has also been a longtime fixture of the area – is to make way for a major residential development.
Horizontal Investment, the owners of Helensvale Plaza shopping centre, in May filed a development application for a 12-storey unit block on the Red Rooster site.
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