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Pizza Hut

April 16, 2024

Pizza Hut, LLC[5] is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. The chain, headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates 19,866 restaurants worldwide as of 2023.[6]

Pizza Hut, LLC
Pizza Hut classic logo revived in the United States since 2019, alongside different logo used for the international markets since 2014
The distinctive roof shape and lettering style shown here on this Pizza Hut in Athens, Ohio, were typical of U.S. Pizza Huts.
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry
GenreCasual dining
take-out
FoundedMay 31, 1958; 65 years ago (1958-05-31)
Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Founders
  • Dan Carney
  • Frank Carney
Headquarters7100 Corporate Dr., Plano, Texas[1]
Number of locations
18,703 restaurants worldwide (2020)[2]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Aaron Powell
(President Pizza Hut International)[3]
ProductsPizza
Fries
Italian taco
Pan pizza
Pasta
Chicken wings
Breadsticks
ServicesFranchising
Revenue US$1.091 billion (2016)[4]
Number of employees
About 350,000[4]
ParentYum! Brands
Websitepizzahut.com

While studying at Wichita State University, the Carneys opened their first location, which quickly expanded to six outlets within a year. The brand began franchising in 1959, and its distinctive building style was designed by Chicago architect George Lindstrom in 1963. Pizza Hut experienced significant growth, including the acquisition by PepsiCo in 1977, followed by a spin-off into Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., later renamed Yum! Brands[2] in 2002, who are the current owners.

Pizza Hut introduced PizzaNet in 1994, an early internet ordering experiment, and continued innovation with offerings like stuffed crust pizza introduced in 1995. Pizza Hut has adapted its model to include various restaurant formats, including the family-style dine-in locations, carry-out, and hybrid locations. It has ventured into international markets, tailoring its menu to local tastes. The brand faced challenges, including the closure of numerous dine-in locations in the US and adjustments to its franchise operations. Despite these hurdles, Pizza Hut remains a significant player in the global fast food industry, known for its innovative products and marketing strategies.

History

Pizza Hut was launched on May 31, 1958,[7] by two brothers, Dan and Frank Carney, both Wichita State students, as a single location in Wichita, Kansas.[8] Six months later they opened a second outlet, and within a year they were operating six locations.[9]

One early employee was future Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells, who had worked for the company while a college student and football player at Wichita State University. Parcells was considering a franchise for a career (as well as law school), but instead chose to enter coaching, eventually becoming a head coach in the National Football League.[10]

The brothers began franchising in 1959. The iconic Pizza Hut building style was designed in 1963 by Chicago architect George Lindstrom[11] and was implemented in 1969.[9]

 
The first Pizza Hut opened on May 31, 1958, in Wichita, Kansas.

PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in November 1977.[12][13] On May 30, 1997, PepsiCo spun off Pizza Hut, along with Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken, into a new company named Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. The company assumed the name of Yum! Brands on May 22, 2002.[14][15]

The first Pizza Hut restaurant east of the Mississippi River was opened in Athens, Ohio, in 1966 by Lawrence Berberick and Gary Meyers.[16]

In August 1994, Pizza Hut and the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) announced PizzaNet, a pilot program in the Santa Cruz area that allowed consumers to use their own computer to order pizza delivery from a local Pizza Hut restaurant, with connection being made over the Internet to a central Pizza Hut server in Wichita, Kansas.[17][18] The PizzaNet application software was developed by SCO's Professional Services group.[19] PizzaNet was based on the first commercially licensed and bundled Internet operating system, SCO Global Access.[19]

On March 31, 2011, Priszm, owner of Pizza Hut in Canada, went into bankruptcy protection in Ontario and British Columbia.[20]

In 2015, the oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut, which was the restaurant located in the Aggieville District of Manhattan, closed.[16]

The company announced a rebrand that began on November 19, 2014, in an effort to increase sales, which had dropped in the previous two years. The menu was expanded to introduce various items such as crust flavors and 11 new specialty pizzas, and the company's employee uniforms were redesigned.[21] 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.[22][23]

On June 25, 2019, Pizza Hut announced it was bringing back the logo and the red roof design that was used from 1976 until 1999.[24][25]

On August 7, 2019, Pizza Hut announced its intention to close about 500 of its 7,496 dine-in restaurants in the US, by the middle of 2021.[26]

On August 18, 2020, Pizza Hut announced it would be closing up to 300 restaurants after the bankruptcy of NPC International, one of its largest franchisees.[27] In March 2021, Flynn Restaurant Group acquired NPC's 937 Pizza Hut locations.[28]

Concept

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. Some full-size Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-eat" pizza, salad, desserts, and breadsticks, and a pasta bar. Pizza Hut has other business concepts independent of the store type.[citation needed]

In 1975, Pizza Hut began testing concepts with Applegate's Landing.[29][30] with restaurants that featured had Colonial-style exteriors and eclectic interiors that included a truck with a salad bar in the bed. The chain offered much of the same pizza and pasta dishes, with some additions like hamburgers and bread pudding. Applegate's Landing went defunct in the mid-1980s except for one location in McPherson, Kansas that closed in late 1995.[31]

 
Pizza Hut Express location in San Marcos, Texas

An upscale concept was unveiled in 2004, called "Pizza Hut Italian Bistro". At 50 U.S. locations, the Bistro is similar to a traditional Pizza Hut, but with a menu that included previously unseen items, such as penne pasta, chicken pomodoro, and toasted sandwiches.[32] Instead of black, white, and red, Bistro locations feature a burgundy and tan motif.[33] In some cases, Pizza Hut has replaced a red roof location with the new concept. Pizza Hut Express locations are fast food restaurants that offer a limited menu with many products not seen at a traditional Pizza Hut. These stores are often paired in a colocation with WingStreet in the US and Canada, or other sibling brands such as KFC or Taco Bell and found on college campuses, food courts, theme parks, bowling alleys, and within stores such as Target.[citation needed]

Vintage locations featuring the red roof, designed by architect Richard D. Burke, can be found in the United States and Canada; several exist in the UK, Australia, and Mexico. In his book Orange Roofs, Golden Arches, Phillip Langdon wrote that the Pizza Hut red roof architecture "is something of a strange object – considered outside the realm of significant architecture, yet swiftly reflecting shifts in popular taste and unquestionably making an impact on daily life. These buildings rarely show up in architectural journals, yet they have become some of the most numerous and conspicuous in the United States today."[34]

In 2014, Curbed.com reported, "Despite Pizza Hut's decision to discontinue the form when they made the shift toward delivery, there were still 6,304 traditional units standing as of 2004, each with the shingled roofs and trapezoidal windows signifying equal parts suburban comfort and strip-mall anomie." This building style was common in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The name "red roof" is somewhat anachronistic now since many locations have brown roofs. Dozens of these restaurants have closed or been relocated or rebuilt.[35]

Many of the older locations with the red roof design serve beer or have a full bar, music from a jukebox, and in some cases an arcade. In the mid-1980s, the company moved into other formats, including delivery or carryout and the fast food "Express" model.[36]

Pizza Hut concepts

Products

 
Pizza Hut products in the Philippines

In North America, Pizza Hut has notably sold:

 
An ice cream ball sold by Pizza Hut restaurant at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
  • Pan pizza, baked in a pan with a crispy edge;
  • "Stuffed crust" pizza, with the outermost edge wrapped around a cylinder of mozzarella cheese;
  • "Hand-tossed", more like traditional pizzeria crusts;
  • "Thin 'N Crispy", a thin, crisp dough which was Pizza Hut's original style;
  • Dippin' Strips pizza, a pizza cut into small strips that can be dipped into a number of sauces;
  • The P'Zone, a calzone with a marinara dipping sauce that comes in plain, Supremo, Meaty, and pepperoni;
  • The Bigfoot pizza, its largest product;
  • The Priazzo, a pie like pizza stuffed with pizza ingredients.[citation needed]

The "stuffed crust" pizza was introduced on March 26, 1995. By the end of the year, it had become one of their most popular lines.[37]

 
Pizza Hut delivery motorcycles in Japan

Regional differences are seen in the products and bases.[38] The company has localized to Southeast Asia with a baked rice dish called Curry Zazzle.[39][40]

On May 9, 2008, Pizza Hut created "The Natural" pizza, which featured natural ingredients and was sold in Seattle, Denver and Dallas. This was discontinued on October 27, 2009, in the Dallas market.[41]

Pizza Hut developed a pizza to be delivered to the International Space Station in 2001.[42] It was vacuum-sealed and about 6 in (15 cm) in diameter to fit in the station's oven.[42] It was launched on a Soyuz and eaten by Yuri Usachov in orbit.[43]

In the 2010s, the chain saw a downturn in profits. In 2015, the franchise stated it would be pumping more capital into its London branches. Pizza Hut is installing cocktail bars in its London branches as part of a £60 million bid to win back "the Nando's generation".[44]

In January 2019, Pizza Hut announced it had expanded beer delivery to 300 locations across the U.S., with plans to expand to 1,000 locations by the middle of the year.[45]

In March 2019, Pizza Hut announced the return of the P'Zone after a hiatus of several years.[46]

In March 2020, Pizza Hut Hong Kong announced that it had partnered with furniture retailer IKEA on a joint venture. IKEA launched a new side table called SÄVA, which was designed to resemble a pizza saver. The table would be boxed in packaging resembling a pizza box, and the building instructions included a suggestion to order a Swedish meatball pizza from Pizza Hut, which would contain the same meatballs served in IKEA restaurants.[47][48] A 2021 menu addition, designed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the introduction of stuffed crust pizza, was "nothing but the stuffed crust," a ring of dough filled with cheese.[49]

WingStreet

 
Pizza Hut WingStreet chicken wings

WingStreet is the name used for Pizza Hut's chicken wing menu.[50]

 
A Pizza Hut restaurant in Gillette, Wyoming with WingStreet signage

In 2003, Yum! launched WingStreet in combination with existing Pizza Hut franchises.[51] The chain predicted aggressive growth, adding more than 4,000 locations by 2010.[52] In 2012, Pizza Hut opened a standalone pilot store in Denton, Texas. The store was unsuccessful and closed the following year.[53]

Restaurants with WingStreet sections on their menus sell breaded and traditional buffalo wings for take-out and delivery. Their sauces include original Buffalo (in mild, medium, and hot levels of spiciness), sweet chili, spicy garlic, honey barbecue, and garlic Parmesan, as well as cajun and lemon pepper dry rubs. They also offer sauce-free "naked" wings.[citation needed]

International

 
Countries with active Pizza Hut locations

Pizza Hut's international presence under Yum! Brands includes:

  • Canada and Mexico in North America
  • Japan, India,[54][55] Bangladesh,[56][57] Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Croatia,[58] European Union, Qatar, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Myanmar, and Macau in Asia [59]
  • Egypt

Pizza Hut's China operations are part of the Yum! spinoff Yum China. Pizza Hut was one of the first American franchises to open in Iraq.[60]

China

In China, Pizza Hut (simplified Chinese: 必胜客; traditional Chinese: 必勝客; pinyin: Bìshèng Kè) used an altered business model, offering a fine-dining atmosphere with knives and forks and using an expanded menu catering to Chinese tastes.[61] By 2008, Pizza Hut operated restaurants and delivery locations. That year, the company introduced "Pizza Hut Express", opening locations in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.[62] The 160 restaurants were in 40 Chinese cities in 2005.[63] As of 2015, Pizza Hut had 1,903 restaurants in China.[64]

Savio S. Chan (陳少宏, Pinyin: Chén Shàohóng) and Michael Zakkour, authors of China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them, stated middle-class Chinese perceive Pizza Hut as "akin to fine dining", though Pizza Hut was "China's largest and most successful foreign casual-dining chain".[65]

Australia

Pizza Hut expanded to Australia in 1970, opening its first dine-in restaurant in Belfield in April 1970.[66] In 2016, private equity firm Allegro Funds and a local management team bought the master franchise agreement for Pizza Hut in Australia from Yum! Brands.[67] In June 2023, Allegro sold Pizza Hut Australia to US franchise operator Flynn Restaurant Group.[68] As of June 2023, there are about 260 Pizza Hut stores in Australia.[68]

Pakistan

Pizza Hut Pakistan (Urdu: پیزاہٹ پاکستان) is the Pakistani franchisee of Pizza Hut. It is owned by MCR (Pvt) Ltd and is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.[69][70] The first outlet was opened in Karachi in 1993. Currently, Pizza Hut has a presence in 23 major cities.[71]

Mongolia

"Tavan Bogd Foods Pizza" LLC officially opened Pizza Hut on July 14, 2014, in Mongolia. They currently work under three concepts: Restaurant, Delivery, and Express, and provide products and services in 13 areas.[citation needed]

Ethiopia

In 2018, Pizza Hut officially opened in Ethiopia.[72]

United Kingdom

Pizza Hut first opened in the UK in 1973.[73] In 2023, UK Pizza Hut restaurants added Beyond Meat Pepperoni to its menus with pizzas that include the Big New Yorker with vegan cheese and Beyond Pepperoni.[74]

South Korea

As of August 2018, Pizza Hut has 324 franchises in South Korea since it opened its first store in 1985.[75]

Former markets

  • Russia – Pizza Hut began operating in Russia in 1991, when food supplies dwindled during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, prompting Russian President Boris Yeltsin to call Pizza Hut deliveries.[76] Pizza Hut suspended operations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[77] Later some restaurants re-opened operations under rebranded new trademark PittsaN (ПиццаН).[78]
  • Panama – In 2022, the Pizza Hut chain ceased its operations in Panamanian lands after re-reporting economic losses.[79]

Advertising

United States

Pizza Hut's first television commercial was produced in 1965 by Bob Walterscheidt for the Harry Crow agency in Wichita, and was entitled "Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut". The ad looks just like an old movie and is set in fast motion. It features a man in a business suit and tie, played by Ron Williams, who was then a production manager for Wichita's ABC affiliate KAKE-TV, as he orders take-out, leaves his house, and gets into his 1965 Mustang JR to drive to Pizza Hut, where he is chased by a variety of townspeople, portrayed by neighborhood kids, Walterscheidt and his daughter, and various employees for Harry Crow and KAKE-TV. He goes inside Pizza Hut to pick up his pizza and drives home. People eat all the pizza before the man who ordered it can get any, which makes the man very upset, so he calls Pizza Hut again. The ad first aired on November 19, 1966, during halftime of the Notre Dame vs. Michigan State "Game of the Century", and dramatically increased sales for the franchise. "Putt-Putt to the Pizza Hut" ran on TV for eight years and was nominated for a Clio Award.[80][81]

Until early 2007, Pizza Hut's main advertising slogan was "Gather 'round the good stuff".[82] From 2008 to 2009, the advertising slogan was "Now You're Eating!"[83] From 2009 to 2012, the advertising slogan was "Your Favorites. Your Pizza Hut"[82] From 2012 to 2016, the advertising slogan was "Make it great", a variation of the 1987–1995 slogan "Makin' it great!".[82] From 1995 to 1999, the slogan was "You'll love the stuff we're made of".[84] The advertising slogan is currently "No one outpizzas the hut".[85]

Pizza Hut does not have an official international mascot, but at one time, a series of commercials in the U.S. aired, titled "The Pizza Head Show". These commercials ran from 1991 to 1999 and was created by Walter Williams, creator of the Mr. Bill sketches from Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s – upon which the ad campaign was based. The ads featured a slice of pizza with a face made out of toppings called "Pizza Head". In the 1970s, Pizza Hut used the signature red roof with a jolly man named "Pizza Hut Pete". Pete was on the bags, cups, balloons, and hand puppets for the kids. In Australia during the mid to late 1990s, the advertising mascot was a delivery boy named Dougie, with boyish good looks, who upon delivering pizza to his father, would hear the catchphrase "Here's a tip: Be good to your mother". Adding to the impact of these advertisements, the role of Dougie was played by famous Australian soap opera and police drama actor Diarmid Heidenreich.[citation needed]

Pizza Hut sponsored the film Back to the Future Part II (1989) and offered a free pair of futuristic sunglasses, known as "Solar Shades", with the purchase of Pizza Hut pizza. Pizza Hut also 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.[86]

The 1990 NES game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game came with a coupon for a free pizza. The game included Pizza Hut product placement in the form of background advertisements and pizza that would refill the character's life.

In 1995, Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana Trump appeared in a commercial. The last scene of the commercial showed Ivana asking for the last slice, to which Donald replied, "Actually, you're only entitled to half", a play on the couple's recent divorce.[87]

In 1995, Ringo Starr appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial that teased to a Beatles reunion, but featured three members of The Monkees. A commercial with Rush Limbaugh dates from the same year, in which he boasts "nobody is more right than me," yet he states for the first time he will do something wrong, which was to participate in Pizza Hut's then "eating pizza crust first" campaign regarding their stuffed crust pizzas.[88][89]

In 1999, the announcer says, "The best pizzas under one roof" in the Big New Yorker pizza commercial seen on the PlayStation Pizza Hut Demo Disc 1. Also, in 1999, the game Crazy Taxi for Sega Dreamcast featured Pizza Hut as one of the locations to which players were able to drive and drop off customers. However, in the game's 2010 re-release for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, all of the product placement, including the Pizza Hut locations, were removed and replaced with generic locations.[90]

Early 2007 had Pizza Hut move into several more interactive ways of marketing to the consumer. Using mobile-phone SMS technology and their MyHut ordering site, they aired several television commercials (commencing just before the Super Bowl) containing hidden words that viewers could type into their phones to receive coupons. Other innovative efforts included their "MySpace Ted" campaign, which took advantage of the popularity of social networking, and the burgeoning user-submission marketing movement via their Vice President of Pizza contest.[91]

United Kingdom

 
Pizza Hut location in Stockport, England

In 1996, as part of Pizza Hut's global advertising strategy using celebrities, Formula One driver Damon Hill and BBC motorsport commentator Murray Walker advertised the stuffed crust pizza, which parodies Walker's extravagant style.[92]

Talk show host Jonathan Ross co-starred in an ad with American model Caprice Bourret. They advertised the new stuffed crust pizza, with Jonathan Ross saying "stuffed cwust" due to his rhotacism.[93]

Following England's defeat to Germany on penalties in the semifinals of Euro '96, Gareth Southgate, Stuart Pearce, and Chris Waddle featured in an advertisement, which shows Southgate wearing a paper bag over his head in shame as his penalty miss allowed England to lose the shootout. Waddle and Pearce, who both missed in a shootout vs West Germany at World Cup '90, are ridiculing him, emphasizing the word "miss" at every opportunity. After Southgate finishes his pizza, he takes off his paper bag, heads for the door, and bangs his head against the wall. Pearce responds with, "this time he's hit the post".[94]

Russia

 
Pizza Hut advertisement in Moscow, Russia in January 1990, just before the restaurant opened

Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a 1997 Pizza Hut commercial with his granddaughter Anastasia Virganskaya to raise money for the Perestroyka Archives.[95] The ad "obviously exploited the shock value of having a former world leader appear... [and] played on the fact that Gorbachev was far more popular outside Russia than inside it". It was filmed on a multi-million budget with a cinematic quality, including mounting cameras on the Kremlin and shutting down Red Square to get the establishing shots of the square, and dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles, to show Pizza Hut as a global brand compared to its American rivals.[96]

In recent[when?] years, Pizza Hut has had various celebrity spokespeople, including Jessica Simpson, the Muppets, Damon Hill, and Murray Walker.

In 2000, Pizza Hut paid for their logo to appear on a Russian Proton rocket, which launched the Russian Zvezda module.[97]

Pasta Hut

 
A branch of Pizza Hut rebranded as "Pasta Hut" on Charing Cross Road, London, in 2009

On April 1, 2008, Pizza Hut in America sent emails to customers advertising their pasta items. The email (and similar advertising on the company's website) stated: "Pasta so good, we changed our name to Pasta Hut!"[98] The name change was a publicity stunt held on April Fools' Day, extending through the month of April, with the company's Dallas headquarters changing its exterior logo to Pasta Hut.[99]

This name change was also used to promote the new Tuscani Pasta line and the new Pizza Hut dine-in menu. The first Pasta Hut advertisement shows the original Pizza Hut restaurant being imploded and recreated with a "Pasta Hut" sign.

A version of this stunt was re-created by Pizza Hut's UK operation later that year in October 2008, which included ten locations in London temporarily taking on new "Pasta Hut" signage. Pizza Hut UK's chief executive at the time has insisted that this was solely intended as a "PR exercise" and the chain never planned on permanently changing its name in the UK or elsewhere.[100]

Sponsorships

 
A Pizza Hut-themed Little Free Library in front of a Pizza Hut in Gillette, Wyoming

Book It!

Pizza Hut has sponsored the Book It! reading-incentive program since it started in January 1985.[109][110] Students who read books according to the goal set by the classroom teacher, in any month from October through March, are rewarded with a Pizza Hut certificate good for a free, one-topping Personal Pan Pizza; and the classroom whose students read the most books is rewarded with a pizza party. Book It! was conceived in 1984 during a dinner with Art Gunther, President of Pizza Hut, and Bud Gates, SVP of Marketing at Pizza Hut, as a way to help Gunther's son read more.[111]

The program has been criticized by some psychologists on the grounds it may lead to overjustification and reduce children's intrinsic interest in reading.[112] Book It! was also criticized by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood in 2007 who described it as "one of corporate America's most insidious school-based brand promotions." A pamphlet produced by the group argued the program promoted junk food to a captive market, made teachers into promoters for Pizza Hut, and undermined parents by making visits to the chain an integral part of bringing up their children to be literate.[113] However, a study of the program found participation in the program neither increased nor decreased reading motivation.[112] The program's 25th anniversary was in 2010. The Book It! program in Australia ceased in 2002.

Criticism

 
Pizza Hut pizzas are commonly known to contain high amounts of salt.

In the United Kingdom, Pizza Hut was criticized in October 2007 for the high salt content of its meals, some of which were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an adult. The toppings that consumers prefer, however, (ham, sausage, bacon, etc.) naturally contain high levels of salt.[114]

To meet the Food Standards Agency 2010 target for salt levels in foods, between 2008 and 2010, the company removed over 15% of salt across its menu.[115]

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.[116] An attempt by Pizza Hut to have the case dismissed in November 2015 failed.[117] In December 2016, the case, Linkovich v. Capital Pizza Huts, Inc., et al., was decided by arbitration, in which Pizza Hut paid damages.[118][failed verification]

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Further reading

  • Lutz, Ashley; Schlossberg, Mallory (June 16, 2015). "We tried Pizza Hut's hot dog stuffed crust pizza—here's what we thought". Business Insider. Retrieved June 30, 2016.

External links

 
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pizza, american, multinational, pizza, restaurant, chain, international, franchise, founded, 1958, wichita, kansas, frank, carney, chain, headquartered, plano, texas, operates, restaurants, worldwide, 2023, classic, logo, revived, united, states, since, 2019, . Pizza Hut LLC 5 is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney The chain headquartered in Plano Texas operates 19 866 restaurants worldwide as of 2023 6 Pizza Hut LLCPizza Hut classic logo revived in the United States since 2019 alongside different logo used for the international markets since 2014The distinctive roof shape and lettering style shown here on this Pizza Hut in Athens Ohio were typical of U S Pizza Huts Company typeSubsidiaryIndustryPizzeria RestaurantsGenreCasual diningtake outFoundedMay 31 1958 65 years ago 1958 05 31 Wichita Kansas U S FoundersDan CarneyFrank CarneyHeadquarters7100 Corporate Dr Plano Texas 1 Number of locations18 703 restaurants worldwide 2020 2 Area servedWorldwideKey peopleAaron Powell President Pizza Hut International 3 ProductsPizzaFriesItalian tacoPan pizzaPastaChicken wingsBreadsticksServicesFranchisingRevenueUS 1 091 billion 2016 4 Number of employeesAbout 350 000 4 ParentYum BrandsWebsitepizzahut wbr comWhile studying at Wichita State University the Carneys opened their first location which quickly expanded to six outlets within a year The brand began franchising in 1959 and its distinctive building style was designed by Chicago architect George Lindstrom in 1963 Pizza Hut experienced significant growth including the acquisition by PepsiCo in 1977 followed by a spin off into Tricon Global Restaurants Inc later renamed Yum Brands 2 in 2002 who are the current owners Pizza Hut introduced PizzaNet in 1994 an early internet ordering experiment and continued innovation with offerings like stuffed crust pizza introduced in 1995 Pizza Hut has adapted its model to include various restaurant formats including the family style dine in locations carry out and hybrid locations It has ventured into international markets tailoring its menu to local tastes The brand faced challenges including the closure of numerous dine in locations in the US and adjustments to its franchise operations Despite these hurdles Pizza Hut remains a significant player in the global fast food industry known for its innovative products and marketing strategies Contents 1 History 2 Concept 3 Products 3 1 WingStreet 4 International 4 1 China 4 2 Australia 4 3 Pakistan 4 4 Mongolia 4 5 Ethiopia 4 6 United Kingdom 4 7 South Korea 4 8 Former markets 5 Advertising 5 1 United States 5 2 United Kingdom 5 3 Russia 5 4 Pasta Hut 5 5 Sponsorships 5 6 Book It 6 Criticism 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksHistoryPizza Hut was launched on May 31 1958 7 by two brothers Dan and Frank Carney both Wichita State students as a single location in Wichita Kansas 8 Six months later they opened a second outlet and within a year they were operating six locations 9 One early employee was future Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells who had worked for the company while a college student and football player at Wichita State University Parcells was considering a franchise for a career as well as law school but instead chose to enter coaching eventually becoming a head coach in the National Football League 10 The brothers began franchising in 1959 The iconic Pizza Hut building style was designed in 1963 by Chicago architect George Lindstrom 11 and was implemented in 1969 9 nbsp The first Pizza Hut opened on May 31 1958 in Wichita Kansas PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in November 1977 12 13 On May 30 1997 PepsiCo spun off Pizza Hut along with Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken into a new company named Tricon Global Restaurants Inc The company assumed the name of Yum Brands on May 22 2002 14 15 The first Pizza Hut restaurant east of the Mississippi River was opened in Athens Ohio in 1966 by Lawrence Berberick and Gary Meyers 16 In August 1994 Pizza Hut and the Santa Cruz Operation SCO announced PizzaNet a pilot program in the Santa Cruz area that allowed consumers to use their own computer to order pizza delivery from a local Pizza Hut restaurant with connection being made over the Internet to a central Pizza Hut server in Wichita Kansas 17 18 The PizzaNet application software was developed by SCO s Professional Services group 19 PizzaNet was based on the first commercially licensed and bundled Internet operating system SCO Global Access 19 On March 31 2011 Priszm owner of Pizza Hut in Canada went into bankruptcy protection in Ontario and British Columbia 20 In 2015 the oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut which was the restaurant located in the Aggieville District of Manhattan closed 16 The company announced a rebrand that began on November 19 2014 in an effort to increase sales which had dropped in the previous two years The menu was expanded to introduce various items such as crust flavors and 11 new specialty pizzas and the company s employee uniforms were redesigned 21 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 22 23 On June 25 2019 Pizza Hut announced it was bringing back the logo and the red roof design that was used from 1976 until 1999 24 25 On August 7 2019 Pizza Hut announced its intention to close about 500 of its 7 496 dine in restaurants in the US by the middle of 2021 26 On August 18 2020 Pizza Hut announced it would be closing up to 300 restaurants after the bankruptcy of NPC International one of its largest franchisees 27 In March 2021 Flynn Restaurant Group acquired NPC s 937 Pizza Hut locations 28 ConceptPizza 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 Some full size Pizza Hut locations have a lunch buffet with all you can eat pizza salad desserts and breadsticks and a pasta bar Pizza Hut has other business concepts independent of the store type citation needed In 1975 Pizza Hut began testing concepts with Applegate s Landing 29 30 with restaurants that featured had Colonial style exteriors and eclectic interiors that included a truck with a salad bar in the bed The chain offered much of the same pizza and pasta dishes with some additions like hamburgers and bread pudding Applegate s Landing went defunct in the mid 1980s except for one location in McPherson Kansas that closed in late 1995 31 nbsp Pizza Hut Express location in San Marcos TexasAn upscale concept was unveiled in 2004 called Pizza Hut Italian Bistro At 50 U S locations the Bistro is similar to a traditional Pizza Hut but with a menu that included previously unseen items such as penne pasta chicken pomodoro and toasted sandwiches 32 Instead of black white and red Bistro locations feature a burgundy and tan motif 33 In some cases Pizza Hut has replaced a red roof location with the new concept Pizza Hut Express locations are fast food restaurants that offer a limited menu with many products not seen at a traditional Pizza Hut These stores are often paired in a colocation with WingStreet in the US and Canada or other sibling brands such as KFC or Taco Bell and found on college campuses food courts theme parks bowling alleys and within stores such as Target citation needed Vintage locations featuring the red roof designed by architect Richard D Burke can be found in the United States and Canada several exist in the UK Australia and Mexico In his book Orange Roofs Golden Arches Phillip Langdon wrote that the Pizza Hut red roof architecture is something of a strange object considered outside the realm of significant architecture yet swiftly reflecting shifts in popular taste and unquestionably making an impact on daily life These buildings rarely show up in architectural journals yet they have become some of the most numerous and conspicuous in the United States today 34 In 2014 Curbed com reported Despite Pizza Hut s decision to discontinue the form when they made the shift toward delivery there were still 6 304 traditional units standing as of 2004 each with the shingled roofs and trapezoidal windows signifying equal parts suburban comfort and strip mall anomie This building style was common in the late 1960s and early 1970s The name red roof is somewhat anachronistic now since many locations have brown roofs Dozens of these restaurants have closed or been relocated or rebuilt 35 Many of the older locations with the red roof design serve beer or have a full bar music from a jukebox and in some cases an arcade In the mid 1980s the company moved into other formats including delivery or carryout and the fast food Express model 36 Pizza Hut concepts nbsp Pizza Hut Bistro in Indianapolis Indiana United States nbsp Pizza Hut in Riyadh Saudi Arabia nbsp Pizza Hut in Santiago Chile nbsp Pizza Hut in Cebu City Philippines nbsp Pizza Hut in Jakarta Indonesia nbsp Pizza Hut in Xi an China nbsp Pizza Hut in Lahore Pakistan nbsp Pizza Hut in Yerevan Armenia nbsp Pizza Hut in Puerto Vallarta Mexico nbsp Pizza Hut in North York Ontario Canada nbsp Pizza Hut in Paris France nbsp Pizza Hut in Kingston upon Hull United KingdomProducts nbsp Pizza Hut products in the PhilippinesIn North America Pizza Hut has notably sold nbsp An ice cream ball sold by Pizza Hut restaurant at Addis Ababa Bole International AirportPan pizza baked in a pan with a crispy edge Stuffed crust pizza with the outermost edge wrapped around a cylinder of mozzarella cheese Hand tossed more like traditional pizzeria crusts Thin N Crispy a thin crisp dough which was Pizza Hut s original style Dippin Strips pizza a pizza cut into small strips that can be dipped into a number of sauces The P Zone a calzone with a marinara dipping sauce that comes in plain Supremo Meaty and pepperoni The Bigfoot pizza its largest product The Priazzo a pie like pizza stuffed with pizza ingredients citation needed The stuffed crust pizza was introduced on March 26 1995 By the end of the year it had become one of their most popular lines 37 nbsp Pizza Hut delivery motorcycles in JapanRegional differences are seen in the products and bases 38 The company has localized to Southeast Asia with a baked rice dish called Curry Zazzle 39 40 On May 9 2008 Pizza Hut created The Natural pizza which featured natural ingredients and was sold in Seattle Denver and Dallas This was discontinued on October 27 2009 in the Dallas market 41 Pizza Hut developed a pizza to be delivered to the International Space Station in 2001 42 It was vacuum sealed and about 6 in 15 cm in diameter to fit in the station s oven 42 It was launched on a Soyuz and eaten by Yuri Usachov in orbit 43 In the 2010s the chain saw a downturn in profits In 2015 the franchise stated it would be pumping more capital into its London branches Pizza Hut is installing cocktail bars in its London branches as part of a 60 million bid to win back the Nando s generation 44 In January 2019 Pizza Hut announced it had expanded beer delivery to 300 locations across the U S with plans to expand to 1 000 locations by the middle of the year 45 In March 2019 Pizza Hut announced the return of the P Zone after a hiatus of several years 46 In March 2020 Pizza Hut Hong Kong announced that it had partnered with furniture retailer IKEA on a joint venture IKEA launched a new side table called SAVA which was designed to resemble a pizza saver The table would be boxed in packaging resembling a pizza box and the building instructions included a suggestion to order a Swedish meatball pizza from Pizza Hut which would contain the same meatballs served in IKEA restaurants 47 48 A 2021 menu addition designed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the introduction of stuffed crust pizza was nothing but the stuffed crust a ring of dough filled with cheese 49 WingStreet nbsp Pizza Hut WingStreet chicken wingsWingStreet is the name used for Pizza Hut s chicken wing menu 50 nbsp A Pizza Hut restaurant in Gillette Wyoming with WingStreet signageIn 2003 Yum launched WingStreet in combination with existing Pizza Hut franchises 51 The chain predicted aggressive growth adding more than 4 000 locations by 2010 52 In 2012 Pizza Hut opened a standalone pilot store in Denton Texas The store was unsuccessful and closed the following year 53 Restaurants with WingStreet sections on their menus sell breaded and traditional buffalo wings for take out and delivery Their sauces include original Buffalo in mild medium and hot levels of spiciness sweet chili spicy garlic honey barbecue and garlic Parmesan as well as cajun and lemon pepper dry rubs They also offer sauce free naked wings citation needed International nbsp Countries with active Pizza Hut locationsPizza Hut s international presence under Yum Brands includes Canada and Mexico in North America Japan India 54 55 Bangladesh 56 57 Pakistan Sri Lanka China Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Croatia 58 European Union Qatar Philippines Vietnam Thailand Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Brunei Hong Kong Taiwan South Korea Myanmar and Macau in Asia 59 EgyptPizza Hut s China operations are part of the Yum spinoff Yum China Pizza Hut was one of the first American franchises to open in Iraq 60 China In China Pizza Hut simplified Chinese 必胜客 traditional Chinese 必勝客 pinyin Bisheng Ke used an altered business model offering a fine dining atmosphere with knives and forks and using an expanded menu catering to Chinese tastes 61 By 2008 Pizza Hut operated restaurants and delivery locations That year the company introduced Pizza Hut Express opening locations in Shanghai Shenzhen and Hangzhou 62 The 160 restaurants were in 40 Chinese cities in 2005 63 As of 2015 Pizza Hut had 1 903 restaurants in China 64 Savio S Chan 陳少宏 Pinyin Chen Shaohong and Michael Zakkour authors of China s Super Consumers What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them stated middle class Chinese perceive Pizza Hut as akin to fine dining though Pizza Hut was China s largest and most successful foreign casual dining chain 65 Australia Pizza Hut expanded to Australia in 1970 opening its first dine in restaurant in Belfield in April 1970 66 In 2016 private equity firm Allegro Funds and a local management team bought the master franchise agreement for Pizza Hut in Australia from Yum Brands 67 In June 2023 Allegro sold Pizza Hut Australia to US franchise operator Flynn Restaurant Group 68 As of June 2023 there are about 260 Pizza Hut stores in Australia 68 Pakistan Pizza Hut Pakistan Urdu پیزاہٹ پاکستان is the Pakistani franchisee of Pizza Hut It is owned by MCR Pvt Ltd and is headquartered in Karachi Pakistan 69 70 The first outlet was opened in Karachi in 1993 Currently Pizza Hut has a presence in 23 major cities 71 Mongolia Tavan Bogd Foods Pizza LLC officially opened Pizza Hut on July 14 2014 in Mongolia They currently work under three concepts Restaurant Delivery and Express and provide products and services in 13 areas citation needed Ethiopia In 2018 Pizza Hut officially opened in Ethiopia 72 United Kingdom Pizza Hut first opened in the UK in 1973 73 In 2023 UK Pizza Hut restaurants added Beyond Meat Pepperoni to its menus with pizzas that include the Big New Yorker with vegan cheese and Beyond Pepperoni 74 South Korea As of August 2018 Pizza Hut has 324 franchises in South Korea since it opened its first store in 1985 75 Former markets Russia 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 76 Pizza Hut suspended operations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 77 Later some restaurants re opened operations under rebranded new trademark PittsaN PiccaN 78 Panama In 2022 the Pizza Hut chain ceased its operations in Panamanian lands after re reporting economic losses 79 AdvertisingUnited States Pizza Hut s first television commercial was produced in 1965 by Bob Walterscheidt for the Harry Crow agency in Wichita and was entitled Putt Putt to the Pizza Hut The ad looks just like an old movie and is set in fast motion It features a man in a business suit and tie played by Ron Williams who was then a production manager for Wichita s ABC affiliate KAKE TV as he orders take out leaves his house and gets into his 1965 Mustang JR to drive to Pizza Hut where he is chased by a variety of townspeople portrayed by neighborhood kids Walterscheidt and his daughter and various employees for Harry Crow and KAKE TV He goes inside Pizza Hut to pick up his pizza and drives home People eat all the pizza before the man who ordered it can get any which makes the man very upset so he calls Pizza Hut again The ad first aired on November 19 1966 during halftime of the Notre Dame vs Michigan State Game of the Century and dramatically increased sales for the franchise Putt Putt to the Pizza Hut ran on TV for eight years and was nominated for a Clio Award 80 81 Until early 2007 Pizza Hut s main advertising slogan was Gather round the good stuff 82 From 2008 to 2009 the advertising slogan was Now You re Eating 83 From 2009 to 2012 the advertising slogan was Your Favorites Your Pizza Hut 82 From 2012 to 2016 the advertising slogan was Make it great a variation of the 1987 1995 slogan Makin it great 82 From 1995 to 1999 the slogan was You ll love the stuff we re made of 84 The advertising slogan is currently No one outpizzas the hut 85 Pizza Hut does not have an official international mascot but at one time a series of commercials in the U S aired titled The Pizza Head Show These commercials ran from 1991 to 1999 and was created by Walter Williams creator of the Mr Bill sketches from Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s upon which the ad campaign was based The ads featured a slice of pizza with a face made out of toppings called Pizza Head In the 1970s Pizza Hut used the signature red roof with a jolly man named Pizza Hut Pete Pete was on the bags cups balloons and hand puppets for the kids In Australia during the mid to late 1990s the advertising mascot was a delivery boy named Dougie with boyish good looks who upon delivering pizza to his father would hear the catchphrase Here s a tip Be good to your mother Adding to the impact of these advertisements the role of Dougie was played by famous Australian soap opera and police drama actor Diarmid Heidenreich citation needed Pizza Hut sponsored the film Back to the Future Part II 1989 and offered a free pair of futuristic sunglasses known as Solar Shades with the purchase of Pizza Hut pizza Pizza Hut also 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 86 The 1990 NES game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Arcade Game came with a coupon for a free pizza The game included Pizza Hut product placement in the form of background advertisements and pizza that would refill the character s life In 1995 Donald Trump and his ex wife Ivana Trump appeared in a commercial The last scene of the commercial showed Ivana asking for the last slice to which Donald replied Actually you re only entitled to half a play on the couple s recent divorce 87 In 1995 Ringo Starr appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial that teased to a Beatles reunion but featured three members of The Monkees A commercial with Rush Limbaugh dates from the same year in which he boasts nobody is more right than me yet he states for the first time he will do something wrong which was to participate in Pizza Hut s then eating pizza crust first campaign regarding their stuffed crust pizzas 88 89 In 1999 the announcer says The best pizzas under one roof in the Big New Yorker pizza commercial seen on the PlayStation Pizza Hut Demo Disc 1 Also in 1999 the game Crazy Taxi for Sega Dreamcast featured Pizza Hut as one of the locations to which players were able to drive and drop off customers However in the game s 2010 re release for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network all of the product placement including the Pizza Hut locations were removed and replaced with generic locations 90 Early 2007 had Pizza Hut move into several more interactive ways of marketing to the consumer Using mobile phone SMS technology and their MyHut ordering site they aired several television commercials commencing just before the Super Bowl containing hidden words that viewers could type into their phones to receive coupons Other innovative efforts included their MySpace Ted campaign which took advantage of the popularity of social networking and the burgeoning user submission marketing movement via their Vice President of Pizza contest 91 United Kingdom nbsp Pizza Hut location in Stockport EnglandIn 1996 as part of Pizza Hut s global advertising strategy using celebrities Formula One driver Damon Hill and BBC motorsport commentator Murray Walker advertised the stuffed crust pizza which parodies Walker s extravagant style 92 Talk show host Jonathan Ross co starred in an ad with American model Caprice Bourret They advertised the new stuffed crust pizza with Jonathan Ross saying stuffed cwust due to his rhotacism 93 Following England s defeat to Germany on penalties in the semifinals of Euro 96 Gareth Southgate Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle featured in an advertisement which shows Southgate wearing a paper bag over his head in shame as his penalty miss allowed England to lose the shootout Waddle and Pearce who both missed in a shootout vs West Germany at World Cup 90 are ridiculing him emphasizing the word miss at every opportunity After Southgate finishes his pizza he takes off his paper bag heads for the door and bangs his head against the wall Pearce responds with this time he s hit the post 94 Russia nbsp Pizza Hut advertisement in Moscow Russia in January 1990 just before the restaurant openedFormer Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a 1997 Pizza Hut commercial with his granddaughter Anastasia Virganskaya to raise money for the Perestroyka Archives 95 The ad obviously exploited the shock value of having a former world leader appear and played on the fact that Gorbachev was far more popular outside Russia than inside it It was filmed on a multi million budget with a cinematic quality including mounting cameras on the Kremlin and shutting down Red Square to get the establishing shots of the square and dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles to show Pizza Hut as a global brand compared to its American rivals 96 In recent when years Pizza Hut has had various celebrity spokespeople including Jessica Simpson the Muppets Damon Hill and Murray Walker In 2000 Pizza Hut paid for their logo to appear on a Russian Proton rocket which launched the Russian Zvezda module 97 Pasta Hut nbsp A branch of Pizza Hut rebranded as Pasta Hut on Charing Cross Road London in 2009On April 1 2008 Pizza Hut in America sent emails to customers advertising their pasta items The email and similar advertising on the company s website stated Pasta so good we changed our name to Pasta Hut 98 The name change was a publicity stunt held on April Fools Day extending through the month of April with the company s Dallas headquarters changing its exterior logo to Pasta Hut 99 This name change was also used to promote the new Tuscani Pasta line and the new Pizza Hut dine in menu The first Pasta Hut advertisement shows the original Pizza Hut restaurant being imploded and recreated with a Pasta Hut sign A version of this stunt was re created by Pizza Hut s UK operation later that year in October 2008 which included ten locations in London temporarily taking on new Pasta Hut signage Pizza Hut UK s chief executive at the time has insisted that this was solely intended as a PR exercise and the chain never planned on permanently changing its name in the UK or elsewhere 100 Sponsorships This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp A Pizza Hut themed Little Free Library in front of a Pizza Hut in Gillette WyomingIn the early 1990s as part of PepsiCo s sponsorship of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and its former moniker The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour Pizza Hut was included in the acknowledgment alongside Taco Bell and KFC which PepsiCo owned at the time In 2000 Pizza Hut was a part time sponsor of Galaxy Motorsports 75 Ford in the then NASCAR Cup Series driven by Wally Dallenbach Jr Pizza Hut was the shirt sponsor of English football club Fulham F C for the 2001 02 season 101 Terry Labonte drove selected events with Pizza Hut as the primary sponsor of his 44 car for Hendrick Motorsports in 2005 102 Brian Vickers also drove a Pizza Hut car in the NASCAR Busch Series for Hendrick Pizza Hut purchased the naming rights to Major League Soccer club FC Dallas stadium Pizza Hut Park prior to its opening in 2005 which were allowed to expire in January 2012 103 In October 2015 Pizza Hut signed sponsorship deals with the Dallas Mavericks Dallas Stars and American Airlines Center 104 In February 2018 Pizza Hut signed a sponsorship deal to be the official pizza sponsor for the National Football League 105 106 Pizza Hut sponsored the 14 Brad Jones Racing Holden ZB Commodore driven by Todd Hazelwood for both of the Darwin Triple Crown and Townsville 500 in 2021 107 In March 2022 Pizza Hut signed a sponsorship deal to be the official Quick Service Restaurant for the Supercars Championship 108 Book It Pizza Hut has sponsored the Book It reading incentive program since it started in January 1985 109 110 Students who read books according to the goal set by the classroom teacher in any month from October through March are rewarded with a Pizza Hut certificate good for a free one topping Personal Pan Pizza and the classroom whose students read the most books is rewarded with a pizza party Book It was conceived in 1984 during a dinner with Art Gunther President of Pizza Hut and Bud Gates SVP of Marketing at Pizza Hut as a way to help Gunther s son read more 111 The program has been criticized by some psychologists on the grounds it may lead to overjustification and reduce children s intrinsic interest in reading 112 Book It was also criticized by the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood in 2007 who described it as one of corporate America s most insidious school based brand promotions A pamphlet produced by the group argued the program promoted junk food to a captive market made teachers into promoters for Pizza Hut and undermined parents by making visits to the chain an integral part of bringing up their children to be literate 113 However a study of the program found participation in the program neither increased nor decreased reading motivation 112 The program s 25th anniversary was in 2010 The Book It program in Australia ceased in 2002 Criticism nbsp Pizza Hut pizzas are commonly known to contain high amounts of salt In the United Kingdom Pizza Hut was criticized in October 2007 for the high salt content of its meals some of which were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an adult The toppings that consumers prefer however ham sausage bacon etc naturally contain high levels of salt 114 To meet the Food Standards Agency 2010 target for salt levels in foods between 2008 and 2010 the company removed over 15 of salt across its menu 115 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 116 An attempt by Pizza Hut to have the case dismissed in November 2015 failed 117 In December 2016 the case Linkovich v Capital Pizza Huts 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