Pizza Chain's Closing Leaves Lafayette Puzzled. Which City Is Next On List?

LAMORINDA, CA — Instead of gooey cheese slices, would-be diners and passersby have been left staring at empty booths and stacked tabletops inside the Round Table Pizza on Mount Diablo Boulevard.

Reports have been multiplying online about the stripped down interior — booths and tabletops gone — inside the 3637 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Pizza Hut.

The company hasn't announced whether the closing is only temporary. But the online ordering for the location is inactive and Google Maps lists the site as permanently closed.

Observers described the gutted interior as “decimated,” underscoring how suddenly the longtime pizza joint’s presence vanished from the downtown strip.

The abrupt closing is leaving locals wondering if the stress of shifting market conditions sealed its fate.

While a spokesman has not yet responded, the closure clearly reflects broader challenges for the Round Table Pizza chain in the Bay Area, following the January 2026 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by parent company FAT Brands — a move that has cast uncertainty over multiple locations. A bankruptcy hearing is scheduled on March 17.

Founded in 1959 by Bill Larson in Menlo Park, Round Table Pizza started with the intention of being a warm place “to share a little pizza with someone you love.”

The love will have to move to other pizzerias in Lafayette or Pizza Huts in Moraga, Walnut Creek, Concord, and Pleasant Hill — at least as long as they stay open amid the bankruptcy.

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