PizzaHut1Jamestown (CSi) Pizza Hut in Jamestown unexpectedly closed its doors Tuesday after years of serving pizza and other foods to the community.

Foremer restaurant Manager Charlie Wright says “All the sudden, not even a week ago, I got a call saying that they were going to be closing (the restaurant) down.”

Wright says  Pizza Hut corporate officials said the reason for the closure was maintenace costs that were too much for the company to bear.

Wright says in the last two years the business was earning a profit, which hadn’t happened the 10 years prior.

Wright had never received more compliments from the community about the pizza, deliveries and customer service than in the last year.

The closure has put 15 people out of work.

The company says  that equipment from the Jamestown location was being moved to the Pizza Hut in Devils Lake.

Wright adds that  none of the employees plan to move to Devils Lake to pursue further employment with the company.

Wright is looking at opening a restaurant similar to a food wagon he owns that sells philly cheesesteaks, gyros and other foods, possibly in the same building as Pizza Hut was formerly located, on 10th Street Southeast, when it becomes available for lease. He hopes to open a restaurant where the food is made in front of the customers.

Property Resources Group in Fargo says the lease of the building to Pizza Hut expires at the end of this month.

At this time it has no official plans for leasing the building to another business.