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Calvin Howard Wilkins Jr. [1] was born in Wichita, Kansas on February 19, 1938. [2] He graduated from Yale University in 1960 and began a business career. [3] [4] [5]In 1966, Wilkins bought the Pizza Hut franchise in Kentucky, and in less than two years he added 16 restaurants.
Brands of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and others. He and his wife were major donors to President Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign, donating more than $1 million. MUY! Brands and its subsidiaries were among the first companies to receive coronavirus relief aid by the Trump administration. [1]
The Pizza Hut in Aggieville, Kansas, was the first to have delivery, an innovation. By 1977, Pizza Hut had grown to 4,000 outlets and the brothers decided to sell the business to PepsiCo for over $300 million USD. Frank remained the president and a board member of Pizza Hut until 1980. [1] [3]
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.
During the campaign, Yum raises money through all of its restaurants for WFP, and promotes the initiative to staff to volunteer. Since it began in 2007, the campaign has raised $640 million for the WFP and other hunger relief organizations, [2] which the campaign says translates into around 2.4 billion meals, in 43 countries. [5]
In the early 1990s, Pizza Hut sought to attract children and pre-teenagers to build its dine-in business. [1] Through comedy writer Walter Williams and San Francisco advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Pizza Hut created The Pizza Head Show, a series of television commercials [1] to convey the message that Pizza Hut meant "weird fun". [2]
Little Caesar Enterprises Inc. (doing business as Little Caesars) is an American multinational chain of pizza restaurants that was founded in 1959. Little Caesars is the fourth largest pizza chain by total sales in the United States behind Pizza Hut, Domino's and Papa John's. [3]
John Hampton "Papa John" Schnatter (born November 22 or 23, 1961) [1] [3] is an American entrepreneur who founded the Papa John's pizza restaurant chain in 1984. [4] Schnatter started the business in the back of his father's tavern after selling his car and using the proceeds to purchase used restaurant equipment.