Everything That Went Wrong With Sbarro

For decades, Sbarro was the beating heart of the mall food court — a brand so tied to suburban adolescence that it’s basically shorthand for “killing time before the movie starts.” But while it once reigned supreme as the undisputed king of the food court jungle, Sbarro eventually became a punchline: mocked for its quality, gutted by bankruptcies, and immortalized as the butt of an Office joke.