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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.
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]
Leading early pizza chains were Shakey's Pizza, founded in 1954 in Sacramento, California; Pizza Hut, founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas; and Little Caesars, founded in 1959 in Garden City, Michigan.
In 1994 (a full year before Amazon.com was even created) Pizza Huts' "PizzaNet" accepted an order for a large pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms and extra cheese and the Internet age was born - kind of.
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Pizza Factory was founded more than 30 years ago in Oakhurst, Calif., and it now has more than 100 locations, primarily in suburban communities along the West Coast.. In 2022, it opened its first ...
NPC was the largest franchisee of both Pizza Hut and Wendy's, and owned more than 1,200 Pizza Hut locations and 385 Wendy's locations until March 2021. [2] O. Gene Bicknell opened his first franchised Pizza Hut restaurant in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1962. In 1984, Bicknell and NPC went public, finishing the decade with 320 locations.
Remember when Pizza Hut was a pleasant, sit-down experience? Jump back to the days of red cups and salad bars with these 12 vintage Pizza Hut photos.