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Pizza Hut was founded in June 1958 by two Wichita State University students, brothers Dan and Frank Carney, as a single location in Wichita Kansas.
Six months later they opened a second outlet and within a year they had
six Pizza Hut restaurants. The brothers began franchising in 1959. The
iconic Pizza Hut building style was designed in 1963 by Chicago
architect George Lindstrom and was implemented in 1969. PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in November 1977.
Before closing in 2015, the oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut was in Manhattan, Kansas, in a shopping and tavern district known as Aggieville near Kansas State University.
The first Pizza Hut restaurant east of the Mississippi River was opened
in Athens, Ohio, in 1966 by Lawrence Berberick and Gary Meyers.
Pizza Hut's international presence includes Canada and Mexico in
North America, and India (not in the Pizza Hut division, but in the Yum!
India division), Pakistan, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the
Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei
Darussalam, China (now part of Yum! spinoff Yum China),
Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Myanmar, and Macau in Asia. Pizza Hut
was one of the first American franchises to open in Iraq.
In Europe they are in United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany,
Spain, Turkey; in Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, in South and Central America; in Ethiopia, South Africa and Tanzania in Africa; and in Australia, New Zealand in Oceania.
The company announced a rebrand that began on November 19, 2014,
in an effort to increase sales, which had dropped in the previous two
years. The menu was expanded to introduce various items such as crust
flavors and 11 new specialty pizzas. Work uniforms for employees were
also refreshed.
In 2017, Pizza Hut was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number
24 in the list of 200 Most Influential Brands in the World.
On June 25 and 27, 2019, it was reported that Pizza Hut is
bringing back their logo with the "Red Roof", that was used from 1967
until 1999. On August 7, 2019, Pizza Hut announced its intention to close
about 500 of its 7,496 dine-in restaurants in the US, by the middle of
2021.
Concept
Pizza Hut is split into several different restaurant formats: the
original family-style dine-in locations; storefront delivery and
carry-out locations; and hybrid locations that have carry-out, delivery,
and dine-in options. Some full-sized Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-eat" pizza, salad, desserts, and bread sticks, and a pasta bar. Pizza Hut has other business concepts independent of the store type.
An upscale concept was unveiled in 2004, called Pizza Hut Italian
Bistro. At 50 U.S. locations, the Bistro is similar to a traditional
Pizza Hut, except that the menu features new, Italian-themed dishes such
as penne pasta, chicken pomodoro, and toasted sandwiches. Instead of black, white, and red, Bistro locations feature a burgundy and tan motif.
Pizza Hut Bistros still serve the chain's traditional pizzas and sides.
In some cases, Pizza Hut has replaced a "Red Roof" location with the
new concept. "Pizza Hut Express" and "The Hut" locations are fast food restaurants. They offer a limited menu with many products not seen at a
traditional Pizza Hut. These stores are often paired in a colocation with Wingstreet, in USA and Canada, or other sibling brands such as KFC or Taco Bell, and found on college campuses, food courts, theme parks, bowling alleys, and within stores such as Target.
Vintage "Red Roof" locations, designed by architect Richard D.
Burke, can be found in the United States and Canada; several exist in
the UK, Australia, and Mexico. In his book Orange Roofs, Golden Arches,
Phillip Langdon wrote that the Pizza Hut "Red Roof" architecture "is
something of a strange object – considered outside the realm of
significant architecture, yet swiftly reflecting shifts in popular taste
and unquestionably making an impact on daily life. These buildings
rarely show up in architectural journals, yet they have become some of
the most numerous and conspicuous in the United States today."
Curbed.com reports, "Despite Pizza Hut's decision to
discontinue the form when they made the shift toward delivery, there
were still 6,304 traditional units standing as of 2004, each with the
shingled roofs and trapezoidal
windows signifying equal parts suburban comfort and strip-mall anomie."
This building style was common in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The
name "Red Roof" is somewhat anachronistic now, since many locations have
brown roofs. Dozens of "Red Roofs" have closed or been relocated or
rebuilt.
Many "Red Roof" branches have beer if not a full bar, music from a jukebox,
and sometimes an arcade. In the mid-1980s, the company moved into other
successful formats, including delivery or carryout and the fast food
"Express" model.
Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise which was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. The company is known for its Italian - American cuisine menu, including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts. Pizza Hut has 18,431 restaurants worldwide as of December 31, 2018, making it the world's largest pizza chain in terms of locations. It is a subsidiary of Yum Brands, Inc. one of the world's largest restaurant companies. PizzaHut
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Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise which was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. The company is known for its Italian - American cuisine menu, including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts. Pizza Hut has 18,431 restaurants worldwide as of December 31, 2018, making it the world's largest pizza chain in terms of locations. It is a subsidiary of Yum Brands, Inc. one of the world's largest restaurant companies. PizzaHut
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