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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] The Carney brothers have been featured in the History Channel series The Food That Built America. [6]
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.
Dan and Frank Carney opened a pizza parlor in Wichita, Kansas, which would later become Pizza Hut. At first, the brothers focused on a thin crust pizza which included cheese, pepperoni or sausage. The pizza parlor franchised into Pizza Hut in 1959 and added a thicker crust pan pizza. [5] [6] Other pizza companies also later included pan pizza.
The company's history began in 1977, when PepsiCo entered the restaurant business by acquiring Pizza Hut from co-founders Dan and Frank Carney. A year later, PepsiCo purchased Taco Bell from founder Glen Bell. [4] In July 1986, R. J. Reynolds sold KFC to PepsiCo [4] to pay off debt from its recent purchase of Nabisco.
Celebrated Australian documentary filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker of Urtext Films are preparing to serve up their “Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts” dish at ...
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Frank Carney (1938−2020), American entrepreneur, founder of Pizza Hut, see Dan and Frank Carney Francis Patrick Carney (1846−1902), American politician Topics referred to by the same term
Dan (1931–) and Frank Carney (1938–2020), businessmen, ... Pizza Hut executive and franchisee, Republican fundraiser, and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands [177]