Although we had never visited this specific location before, the entire experience evoked many memories. From the original logo on the side of the building to almost every detail inside of the restaurant, the Ken’s Pizza in Chandler felt like a restaurant frozen in time. (The only thing missing were the two or three arcade games I remember ours having.) The walls, tables, and even the drinking glasses looked just like they did back in the 80s. The pizza on the buffet looked (and tasted) just like Ken’s Pizza, and while that might sound like a funny thing to say, we’re talking about pizza I haven’t tasted in three decades. That’s a lot of time for any number of variables to change including recipes and sauce spices. Several years ago, The taste of Pizza Hut’s pizzas changed dramatically when they upgraded their original ovens to newer, faster models, so sometimes even a small change can affect the product. Mazzio’s serves a “Ken’s-style Pizza” that looks like an old Ken’s Pizza more than it tastes like one. The pizza we had over the weekend tasted exactly how I remember Ken’s pizza tasting… and you can bet I piled a bunch of spaghetti on top of my thin crust pizza before digging in! 
My grandma always kept a bowl of Brach’s mixed hard candies in a dish on top of her console television. There were butterscotch and peppermint and fiery-hot candies along with little barrel-shaped ones that tasted like root beer. Around the time she passed away I went searching for those candies and bought a bag of them. They aren’t the best candy in the world and to be honest they aren’t my favorite, but at that time I was missing them, and her, and while that bag lasted they were delicious. Sometimes when you’re facing an empty nest and not aging particularly gracefully, the pizza from your youth — even Ken’s buffet pizza — really hits the spot. 
Back when I was driving my old Mustang down Route 66 through Yukon on my way to Ken’s Pizza in an attempt to beat the lunch rush, our waitress — who was thirty years old — wasn’t even born. She seemed shocked that anyone would go out of their way to visit the Ken’s Pizza in Chandler. I, on the other hand, was shocked to learn the price of the buffet had risen from $2.99 to $9.99. I don’t know when or if we’ll revisit Ken’s Pizza. The pizza is more nostalgic than good — and hey, sometimes nostalgia’s an itch that needs to be scratched, but those scratches often last for a long time. Everything during our visit was good as it could be and as good as it ever was. Sometimes you don’t need to revisit a place that reminds you of the past. Sometimes, just knowing it’s still there is enough. (Some of the information I found about Ken came from here and here.) 
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