I have mused before about how few food choices we had when I was a kid. My fist pizza I was 16, my first "Mexican" I was 18. The first Thai restaurant in all of Atlanta opened in 1977 (it's near us). There were some French restaurants around town, maybe 4, circa 1970. I think there were pizza places, I just never had been. My Dad did not like "foreign food", at all.
I can remember a little when the first McDonalds opened up in Augusta, GA in 1961. You could get a burger for a 1961 penny for a few days. They just had burgers, fries, shakes, and Cokes. No "fancy" burgers. We had a What-A-Burger in Augusta which I really liked. Eating at the Varsity here was a treat, and Chick-Fil-A was a HUGE treat. Mostly we ate at home of course, a few times Dad would bring home a bucket. There were some all you could eat fried catfish places we would go on occasion, I really liked catfish, or really fried anything.
The old cafeteria in the town we lived in here is still in operation, still crowded. I took the wife.