The famous U.S. chain of restaurants and universal franchise Pizza Hut is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Yum! Brands, which is the world’s largest restaurant company. Pizza Hut locations offer various kinds of pizza and a number of side dishes, like pasta, salad, breadsticks, etc.

The company’s headquarters are situated in Plano, Texas.

Pizza Hut Structure

Pizza Hut restaurants are divided into several types by their format: family style dine-in original locations, carry-out and delivery locations, and different kinds of hybrid locations.

Some Pizza Hut restaurants have lunch buffets. One can also meet some other concepts with different options and menus, like “Red Roofs”. There are also fast food locations “The Hut” and “Pizza Hut Express”.

Landmarks in the History of Pizza Hut

The history of Pizza Hut began in 1958, when two brothers, Frank and Dan Carney, opened the first pizzeria in Wichita, Kansas, where both of them lived. They borrowed six hundred dollars from the mother and started business in a rented building with a partner.

The following more than fifty years of the company’s development were full of important events.

• 1958 – The first Pizza Hut location is launched in Wichita, Kansas.
• 1959 – Additional restaurants are opened including the 1st franchise location in Topeka, Kansas.
• Early 1960s – The Pizza Hut chain grows on due to aggressive marketing politics.
• 1962 – Frank and Dan Carney buy out their partner’s interest.
• 1966 – The Pizza Hut franchise chain includes 145 units.
• 1968 – The 1st Pizza Hut location starts working in Canada.
• 1968 – IPHFHA, the international association of Pizza Hut franchise holders, is founded.
• 1970 – The Pizza Hut chain opens locations in Germany and Australia. The same year the 500th restaurant is launched in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1971 - Pizza Hut becomes the largest pizza chain in the world, according to the number of units and sales.
• 1972 - Pizza Hut enters the New York Stock Exchange and offers its shares to the public.
• 1972 – The company acquires Taco Kid, Flaming Steer, and Next Door.
• 1973 - Pizza Hut opens its restaurants in Great Britain and Japan.
• 1973 – The 2,000th Pizza Hut location is started in Independence, Missouri.
• 1977 – PepsiCo buys up the company. Pizza Hut becomes a division of the global conglomerate and the new head-office is built in Wichita.
• 1980 - Pizza Hut founds “Pan Pizza”.
• 1983 - Pizza Hut opens “Personal Pan Pizza”.
• 1984 – Steven Reinemund is appointed chief executive officer and president of the company.
• 1986 – The 5,000 franchise restaurant is opened in Dallas, Texas.
• 1988 – The chain introduces “Hand-Tossed Traditional Pizza”.
• 1990 – The 1st Pizza Hut location accepts clients in Moscow.
• 1991 - Pizza Hut has restaurants in eighty countries of the world.
• 1992 - Pizza Hut funds the national program “Book It!”, involving over seventeen million American students.
• 1994 – The company suffers the first decline in profits in fifteen years.
• 1999 - Pizza Hut owns more than 400 restaurants.
• 2004 – 500 Pizza Hut locations work in the United Kingdom.
• 2004 - Pizza Hut offers The Big New Yorker.
• 2005 – The 4forAll is launched.
• 2006 – Yum! Brands Company becomes the 100% owner of Pizza Hut after Whitbread sells its share.
• 2008 - Pizza Hut introduces pasta on the menu.


Pizza Hut Today

Today, the Pizza Hut chain includes over 6,000 restaurants on the territory of the USA and over 5,100 Pizza Hut locations in almost one hundred other countries. There are more than 30,000 regular employees in the restaurant chain.

Pizza Hut owns a huge website providing useful information and services for clients and partners of the company.