It isn’t a hut, it’s a house.
And this house is open late.
Pizza House, 4790 S. Hagadorn Road in East Lansing, opened Thursday. The restaurant specializes in Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
General Manager Chris Tice said even if you call Pizza House at 4 a.m., it will still take your order.
“We usually stop seating at 3:45 a.m.” he said.
The new restaurant is the third in the chain, with other restaurants in Ann Arbor and Whitmore Lake. It has unusually late hours, opening at 10:30 a.m. and closing at 4 a.m. every day, except on major holidays.
But Tice said the owners have always wanted to bring one of the stores to East Lansing.
“It always was the plan to come up here,” he said. “One of the owners went to MSU.”
He said the restaurant has caught on really well in the other locations and hopes it will here, too.
“It is actually the busiest place in Ann Arbor, actually the location is now probably the busiest in pizza place in the state,” he said.
Ann Arbor’s branch, Tice said, has a liquor license and is bigger than East Lansing’s Pizza House. But the popularity of the restaurant is because of its food, not because you can have a beer with your pizza.
“It has got a lot to do with our menu and we deliver everything on the menu,” Tice said.
He said customers can choose between pasta, salads, desserts, burgers, wings and ribs.
Tice also said at the other locations, families and area business men and women will come in for lunch or dinner.
“We have a really good product and we don’t take any shortcuts,” he said.
Michael Modlin, a no-preference sophomore at Livonia-based Schoolcraft College, said he is a regular customer at the Ann Arbor restaurant.
He said the atmosphere and the good service and the restaurant’s business hours are reasons he frequents the house.
“It is probably some of the best food around campus,” Modlin said. “Being in college I keep late hours. It is easier than going to like a Denny’s to get good food at that time of night.”
But students in Ann Arbor aren’t the only ones who like the idea of getting food at odd hours.
Abbey Smith, an audiology speech sciences freshman, said the late hours will come in handy.
“I am always up late and you always have to fend for yourself for food,” she said.
“I think a lot of people are in the same shoes I am.”
Art freshman Ashley Bishop also said she will take advantage of the Pizza House’s convenient hours.
“Not many restaurants offer those kinds of hours,” she said.
