After changing ownership multiple times during the past two years, Pizza Kitchens, 120 Hayward Ave., will reopen as an Indian restaurant.

Surej Singh is the third owner of Pizza Kitchens in the last two years. After being open for only two weeks, the business closed earlier this week to change its format. Singh said he hopes to reopen Monday.

“In the first two weeks after I bought the business, we lost a lot of money, so I thought I am going to have to do something in order to keep open,” Singh said.

Singh said he was losing several thousand dollars because of the fact there was no significant lunch crowd, and very few people came for dinner.

Instead of selling the restaurant, he has decided to convert the building into an Indian restaurant, similar to the successful one he sold in Urbandale last year.

“I don’t know why, but it just did not go very well as a pizza place. Maybe because there are so many other pizza places in Campustown,” Singh said.

Ames has nearly 20 pizza places.

The longest standing owner of Pizza Kitchens, Terry Lowman, sold the building and the business in 2002 to Campus Plaza LC.

“We were always profitable because we owned the building and the restaurant. It would have been very hard had we not owned the building, though,” Lowman said.

Lowman commented that in the past there were more customers because more people had to walk through Campustown.

“Now it is hard to find a student coming to Iowa State that does not have a car. They can go wherever they want now,” Lowman said.