Pizza Hut is an American multinational restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney.
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26 Facts About Pizza Hut
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The iconic Pizza Hut building style was designed in 1963 by Chicago architect George Lindstrom and was implemented in 1969.
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In 2017, Pizza Hut was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 24 in the list of 200 Most Influential Brands in the World.
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Pizza Hut is split into several different restaurant formats: the original family-style dine-in locations; storefront delivery and carry-out locations; and hybrid locations that have carry-out, delivery, and dine-in options.
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Some full-size Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-eat" pizza, salad, desserts, and breadsticks, and a pasta bar.
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Pizza Hut has other business concepts independent of the store type.
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In some cases, Pizza Hut has replaced a red roof location with the new concept.
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Pizza Hut Express locations are fast food restaurants that offer a limited menu with many products not seen at a traditional Pizza Hut.
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Pizza Hut has localized to Southeast Asia with a baked rice dish called Curry Zazzle.
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Pizza Hut developed a pizza for use as space food, which was delivered to the International Space Station in 2001.
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In March 2019, Pizza Hut announced the return of the P'Zone after a hiatus of several years.
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Pizza Hut goes inside Pizza Hut by picking up his pizza and gets back in the 1965 Mustang Jr to return home.
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Pizza Hut sponsored the film Back to the Future Part II and offered a free pair of futuristic sunglasses, known as "Solar Shades", with the purchase of Pizza Hut pizza.
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Pizza Hut engaged in product placement within the film, having a futuristic version of their logo with their trademarked red hut printed on the side of a mylar dehydrated pizza wrapper in the McFly family dinner scene, and appear on a storefront in Hill Valley in the year 2015.
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Early 2007 had Pizza Hut move into several more interactive ways of marketing to the consumer.
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In recent years, Pizza Hut has had various celebrity spokespeople, including Jessica Simpson, the Muppets, and Damon Hill and Murray Walker.
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Pizza Hut paid for their logo to appear on a Russian Proton rocket in 2000, which launched the Russian Zvezda module.
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The first Pasta Hut advertisement shows the original Pizza Hut restaurant being imploded and recreated with a "Pasta Hut" sign.
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In China, Pizza Hut used an altered business model, offering a fine-dining atmosphere with knives and forks and using an expanded menu catering to Chinese tastes.
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Pizza Hut began operating in Russia in 1991, when food supplies dwindled during the 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt, prompting Russian President Boris Yeltsin to call Pizza Hut deliveries.
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Pizza Hut suspended operations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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In July 2014, delivery drivers in the United States filed a class-action lawsuit over Pizza Hut "paying delivery drivers net wages below minimum wage due to unreimbursed automobile expenses" in violation of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
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An attempt by Pizza Hut to have the case dismissed in November 2015 failed.
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