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  2. Pizza Hut - Wikipedia

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    Pizza Hut, LLC [3] is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by brothers Dan and Frank Carney.The chain, headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates 19,866 restaurants worldwide as of 2023.

  3. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The Ezo mainly relied upon hunting and fishing and obtained rice and iron through trade with the Japanese. When establishing the Development Commission (開拓使 Kaitakushi), the Meiji Government introduced a new name. After exploration, Takeshiro Matsuura chose the name, and in 1869, the northern Japanese island became known as Hokkaido. Hyōgo

  4. List of fast food restaurant chains - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable current and former fast food restaurant chains, as distinct from fast casual restaurants (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouses (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlors (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains).

  5. Yum! Brands - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, Yum! announced plans to open 10 Pizza Hut restaurants in Ethiopia, after signing a franchise with the country's Belayab Foods and Franchise PLC. [ 40 ] In January 2020, Yum! announced they were acquiring Irvine, California-based The Habit Burger Grill , for $375 million; the transaction was completed on March 18, 2020.

  6. Place names in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese transcription Example placenames Sources Term Meaning Romaji Kanji Meaning of kanji Japanese name Ainu origin Original meaning pet: river betsu: 別: separate Memanbetsu: meman pet: Cool river [3] [4] Monbetsu: mo pet: Quiet river [5] ota: sand uta: 歌: song Utanobori: ota nupuri: Sandy mountain [6] [7] Utashinai: ota us nay: River ...

  7. List of towns in Japan - Wikipedia

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    A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city , and village . Geographically, a town is contained within a district. The same word (町; machi or chō) is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a ...

  8. Japanese addressing system - Wikipedia

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    The apartment number may also be appended, resulting in 4-5-10-103. A sign displaying the town address Kamimeguro 2 chōme; block (gaiku) 21, building (bangō) 9 identifies the residential address. The upper plaque is the district name plate (町名板, chōmei ban) and the lower, the residential number plate (住居番号板, jūkyo bangō ban).

  9. History of pizza - Wikipedia

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    In the second half of the 19th century the number of pizzerias increased to 120. ... Pizza Hut, founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas; and Little Caesars, founded in ...