Pizza Hut Report
INTRODUCTION: Type | Wholly owned subsidiary | Industry | Restaurants | Founded | Wichita, Kansas (1958) | Founder(s) | Dan and Frank Carney | Headquarters | 7100 Corporate Drive
Plano, Texas 75024, United States. | Number of locations | 11,139 (worldwide as of 2012) | Key people | David C. Novak, Chairman
Scott Berggren, President | Products | Italian-American cuisine pizza · pasta · desserts | Employees | 140,000+ | Parent | PepsiCo (1977–1997)
Yum! Brands (1997–present) |
Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including salad, pasta, wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread.
Corporately known as Pizza Hut, Inc., it is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., the world's largest restaurant company.
As of 2012, there were more than 6,000 Pizza Hut restaurants in the United States, and more than 5,139 store locations in 94 other countries and territories around the world.
HISTORY OF PIZZA:
About Pizza, Some will tell you Italy. That's wrong. What you know as pizza came into vogue around the time of Napoleon and the French revolution. Italians, known to be lovers of fine food and wines perfected and imported this terrific dish to America. From here it quickly endeared itself to mass production and re-export to the rest of the world. Bon appetite!
HISTORY OF PIZZA HUT:
Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank Carney in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. When a friend suggested opening a pizza parlor—then a rarity—they agreed that the idea could prove successful, and they borrowed $600 from their mother to start a business with partner John Bender. Renting a small building at 503 South Bluff in downtown Wichita and purchasing secondhand equipment to make pizzas, the Carneys and Bender opened the first Pizza Hut restaurant; on opening night, they gave pizza away to encourage community interest. A year later, in 1959, Pizza Hut was
Plano, Texas 75024, United States. | Number of locations | 11,139 (worldwide as of 2012) | Key people | David C. Novak, Chairman
Scott Berggren, President | Products | Italian-American cuisine pizza · pasta · desserts | Employees | 140,000+ | Parent | PepsiCo (1977–1997)
Yum! Brands (1997–present) |
Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including salad, pasta, wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread.
Corporately known as Pizza Hut, Inc., it is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., the world's largest restaurant company.
As of 2012, there were more than 6,000 Pizza Hut restaurants in the United States, and more than 5,139 store locations in 94 other countries and territories around the world.
HISTORY OF PIZZA:
About Pizza, Some will tell you Italy. That's wrong. What you know as pizza came into vogue around the time of Napoleon and the French revolution. Italians, known to be lovers of fine food and wines perfected and imported this terrific dish to America. From here it quickly endeared itself to mass production and re-export to the rest of the world. Bon appetite!
HISTORY OF PIZZA HUT:
Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank Carney in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. When a friend suggested opening a pizza parlor—then a rarity—they agreed that the idea could prove successful, and they borrowed $600 from their mother to start a business with partner John Bender. Renting a small building at 503 South Bluff in downtown Wichita and purchasing secondhand equipment to make pizzas, the Carneys and Bender opened the first Pizza Hut restaurant; on opening night, they gave pizza away to encourage community interest. A year later, in 1959, Pizza Hut was