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This is a list of pizza restaurant franchises. Franchising is the practice of the right to use a firm's successful business model and brand for a prescribed period of time. Pizza franchises
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.
GPS Hospitality is a privately held company that is primarily a franchisee for quick service restaurants , including Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Burger King and Pizza Hut. [1] GPS Hospitality was founded by Thomas A. Garrett in 2012 and has over 10,000 employees. [2]
In 2021 the Group acquired 937 Pizza Hut franchises during the bankruptcy of NPC International. [3] The Group began buying Wendy's franchises in 2021. As of 2024 it operated approximately 5% of Wendy's in the United States with a total of around 300 stores. It is also the master franchisee for Wendy's in New Zealand and Australia. [4]
Yum! was created in 1997 as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. from PepsiCo's fast food division as the parent corporation of the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant companies. [13] [14] The decision was announced in January and the spin off was effected on October 6. [15]
This is a list of pizza chains of the United States. This list is limited to pizza chain restaurants that are based, headquartered or originated in the United States . The distinction between national chains and primarily regional chains is only indicative of geographic footprint and not necessarily of the overall size of the chain.
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.
AmRest Holdings SE is a European multinational casual dining, fast-food restaurant and coffee shop operator headquartered in the Spanish capital, Madrid.The company runs more than 2300 locations, mostly franchises of KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks, and also Burger King until 2022, but also operates its own brands of restaurants.