This is from October 10th, 1980. It would have been the 9th Pizza Time Theatre.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times-antioch-spp-before/192688674/ This and another article, https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times-first-showbiz-pizz/140914478/ are the first ones, same day.
Gotta send links for this,
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-pizza-showbiz-antio/192690264/ is the first for hire listing, from November 25th 1979, still under the PTT name
Someone really needs to write the article on this store going into the PTT era
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-the-showbiz-pizza-p/163148728/ This for hire listing from February 12th, 1980 is the first use of the name Showbiz Pizza Place, meaning the store probably only got redesigned over the span of a month or 2 from Feb 1980 to Mar 2nd 1980.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-florida-times-union-jacksonville-spp/192690602/ This article from Feb 15th 1980 is Jacksonville’s first mention. Sadly no mention prior to the SPP rebrand have been found but implies both stores were remodeled at a similar date.
I’m Going to slowly edit this reply with a rough timeline of Antioch for further use.
June 27th, 1979 - Bob Brock signs a deal with Nolan Bushnell and Pizza Time to produce 285 stores in 16 states (One is probably in Missouri) https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/36450769/
October 10th, 1979 - The Antioch Pizza Time Theatre is officially announced for February 1980 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times-antioch-spp-before/192688674/
November to December 1979 - For Hire listings under PTT are made by Pizza Showbiz https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-pizza-showbiz-antio/192690264/
February 1980 - The Showbiz rebrand is decided and begins to be used https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-the-showbiz-pizza-p/163148728/
February 24th, 1980 - Showbiz is first advertised https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/60161601/
Honestly the amount of info you keep posting on the forums would be so much more valuable to just edit the pages with. Kinda disappointing to see so much uncovered yet none of it actually documented where its supposed to go
I’ll start editing some right now
