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Pizza Hut is a well-known American restaurant chain as well as an international franchise that was founded in the year 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan & Frank Carney.

The company is also known for its Italian-American cuisine menu, which includes pizza as well as pasta, and side dishes & desserts.

Pizza Hut has 18,431 restaurants across the world as of December 31, 2018, which make it the world’s largest pizza chain in terms of locations.

It is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., that is one of the world’s largest restaurant firms.

History 

Pizza Hut was founded in June 1958 by two students of Wichita State University, brothers Dan & Frank Carney, as a single location in Wichita, Kansas.

After six months they further opened a second outlet as well as within a year they achieved six Pizza Hut restaurants. The brothers started franchising in the year 1959.

The iconic Pizza Hut building style was designed in the year 1963 by Chicago architect George Lindstrom & was implemented in the year 1969.

PepsiCo got Pizza Hut in November 1977. After 20 years, Pizza Hut (withTaco Bell & Kentucky Fried Chicken) was spun off by PepsiCo on May 30, 1997, as well as all 3 restaurant chains, emerged as a part of Tricon Global Restrauants, Inc., that was a new company named. Pizza Hut assumed the name of Yum! Brands in the year 2002.

Before closing in 2015, the oldest constantly operating Pizza Hut was in Manhattan, Kansas, inside a shopping as well as tavern district named as Aggieville near to Kansas State University.

Pizza Hut’s international presence includes Mexico and Canada in North America, in India (not in the Pizza Hut division, but in the Yum! India division), Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, China (now part of Yum! spinoff Yum China), Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Myanmar, and Macau in Asia. Pizza Hut was one of the first American franchises to open in Iraq. In Europe they are in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Spain, Turkey; in Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, in South and Central America; in Ethiopia, South Africa and Tanzania in Africa; and in Australia, New Zealand in Oceania.

Pizza Hut announced a rebrand that started on November 19, 2014, with an effort to shoot up sales, that was dropped in the previous 2 years. The menu was further expanded to announce various items including crust flavours and 11 new speciality pizzas. Work uniforms for employees were also changed.

In the year 2017, Pizza Hut was listed by an UK-based company Richtopia at number 24 in the list of 200 Most Influential Brands in the World.

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