Selah Pizza Hut Closes After 25 Years, Employees Lose Jobs

A longtime Pizza Hut on S 1st Street in Selah, Washington, closed its doors permanently after roughly 25 years, with employees and community posts confirming February 23, 2026 as the store’s final day, local aggregators reported. The announcement picked up by regional outlets marked the end of what one local headline called a fixture on S 1st Street for twenty-five years.

Coverage of the closure ran alongside national-level reporting that Pizza Hut headquarters announced plans to shut down 250 restaurants described as underperforming. Local copy emphasized that not all Pizza Hut locations are closing and noted that there are currently 100 Washington State locations listed on the Pizza Hut website. The reports did not include a corporate press release specific to the Selah site or an explicit corporate confirmation that the Selah location was on the list of 250.

Local nostalgia threaded through the reporting. A Mega 99.3 News Talk KIT article bylined By Reesha included a personal anecdote recalling buying a Personal Pan Pizza® on a lunch break and credited gallery photography to Rik Mikals. The same outlet’s pages showed site template text including 12K Posts 13K Followers and referenced NewsBreak as a cross-posting platform. Residents in nearby Enumclaw were also noted as chatting online about potential closures, and the Selah item appeared amid related local Pulse and restaurant recommendation links.

The stores’ final-day confirmation was attributed to employees and community social posts captured by local news aggregators; the aggregated excerpts did not contain direct quotes from named employees, a manager, a franchisee, or a Pizza Hut corporate spokesperson. The reporting did not specify whether the Selah location was corporate-owned or franchised, nor did it provide a street number for the S 1st Street address, staffing numbers, or details on employee status following the closure.

Because the available coverage summarized social posts and employee confirmations without named statements, key questions remain: whether Selah’s closure was ordered by Pizza Hut headquarters as part of the 250-site action or resulted from a local franchisee decision, and whether employees were laid off, offered transfers, or given other assistance. Those specifics were not present in the local excerpts that reported the Feb. 23, 2026 final day.

The Selah Pizza Hut’s permanent closing leaves an established location on S 1st Street vacant and a community anecdote archived in local media; further confirmation from Pizza Hut corporate, the store’s franchise owner if applicable, or posted notices at the site will be necessary to determine the corporate link to the broader 250-restaurant shutdown and the employment outcome for staff who worked the final shift.