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The first Pizza Hut store in New Zealand was established in New Lynn 1974 by businessman Garry Melville-Smith, who bought the franchise rights for the country. [73] [74] By 1990, 36 stores had been established across New Zealand. The franchise originated as a dine-in restaurant targeting families and also served alcohol, pasta, salad bars and ...
Tropical Hut: Fast food: 1962 [15] Mercury Group of Companies: The Aristocrat Restaurant: Casual Dining: 1936: Shakey's Pizza: Casual dining: 1975 First pizza chain in the United States. It began in the country under the ownership of San Miguel Corporation. Popeyes: Fast food: 2019 Multinational chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants ...
Restaurant Brands was formed to acquire shares in KFC and Pizza Hut from PepsiCo. It acquired KFC in 1989 and Pizza Hut in 1995. The company originally purchased 122 stores, 91 KFC stores, 46 Pizza Hut stores and 2 Joint KFC and Pizza Hut stores. In 1997, it listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange with an offer price of NZ$2.20.
Yum! Brands also opened Taco Bell and Pizza Hut restaurants in newer Target stores. Yum! Brands opened its 40,000th store in Calangute, Goa, India in October 2013. [33] In 2013, its KFC subsidiary opened a fast casual version, KFC eleven, test location in Louisville on Bardstown Road. The sole KFC Eleven was closed in April 2015. [34]
A Pizza Hut franchise at the SM City BF in Parañaque, Philippines in 2014. The United States is a leader in franchising, a position it has held since the 1930s when it used the approach for fast-food restaurants, food inns and, slightly later, motels at the time of the Great Depression.
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.
Shakey's Pizza is a pizza restaurant chain based in the United States and the Philippines. [1] Founded in 1954, it was the first franchise pizza chain in the United States. [2] [3] In 1968, the chain had 342 locations. [4] The chain had about 500 stores globally, and 58 in the United States, as of July 2019.
Jorge León "Nene" Araneta is a prominent Filipino businessman. He chairs the Araneta Group of Companies which is engaged in property development, lodging and hospitality (Araneta City, Novotel Manila Araneta City, Ibis Styles Araneta City), food and dining (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Dairy Queen Philippine franchise holder), entertainment and leisure (Araneta Coliseum, New Frontier Theater ...