PTT Training Center & Test Kitchen

The PTT Training Center & Test Kitchen was a set of programs starting in December of 1981 at the San Jose, CA (2445 Fontaine Rd) location, which ended sometime in 1984.

The Training Center would be the first place employees could have proper official training, as no training videos, documents, or programs were present at Pizza Time Theatre stores outside of store guidelines and what a store manager would be told when attending the PTT Management Training Program.

The Test Kitchen would be the first food product research lab used by the company. It would be used for new products, evaluating old products, standardizing distribution for stores, and later bringing in franchisee input for regionalization of selected products.

Both programs would work closely with each other due to their relating fields, allowing further assistance and demonstration.

Layout
The programs would take place entirely within the third floor employee section located on the north-west corner of the Tully store. On page 26 of the store's blueprints, the layout of the offices is shown.

When entering the upper floor from the stairway (the elevator was used for freight hauling exclusively), the main office will be entered. This is presumed to be the stated study and audio visual lab of the training center. All adjacent rooms are the individual classrooms for training, with the farthest north-west room being the test kitchen. The training conference room would be located back on the second floor, labeled #53 on page 30 of the blueprints.

Decoration
Adorning the upper floor was a large amount of custom, hand painted Pizza Time Theatre signage, sent from a Wardrobe Department of presumably the Pizza Time Theatre Milpitas, CA Cyberamic Manufacturing Center. It is unclear if this signage was sent during the store's opening, or if this later added to the training area. This includes:


 * Madame Oink, Jasper, & Pasqually eating at a table
 * Dolli Dimples putting on makeup
 * An Angry Chuck (Likely part of a bigger piece)
 * The King next to some sketches
 * Robots building Cyberamic Chuck E.'s
 * The Warblettes pushing a button on a machine (Likely part of a bigger piece)
 * Mr. Munch opening a cabinet full of birds
 * Chuck E. posing with various animated mice, including Mickey Mouse

Training Material
Only two training tapes are known to have been made for training, though likely more were made.


 * Pizza Time Theatre Cashiering
 * Pizza Time Theatre "Pizza Cook"

Any other training material, such as documents and other supplementary material for the classrooms, have not surfaced at all.

Test Kitchen Studies
TODO: More research into food changes, programs, and other products needs to be done to get a better timeline of the Test Kitchen's impact. Currently, no exact results of Test Kitchen studies, nor what was tested, have surfaced. All new Pizza Time Theatre food products starting in 1982, alongside recipe changes to existing products, were results from the Test Kitchen however.

Closing
The programs would cease sometime during the company merger with Showbiz Pizza Place in 1984, where the Arlington, TX (2216 S Fielder Rd) store would become the new main store for training. The third floor would be used exclusively as storage space from then on.