Pizza Hut
American restaurant chain and international franchise
Pizza Hut is a pizza restaurant, or pizza parlor. Pizza Hut also serves salads, pastas and bread sticks. In 2008, Pizza Hut serves chicken wings as a part of the Wingstreet restaurant franchise logo. The line was discontinued in 2013. Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 by Dan and Frank Carney. The company is known for its Italian-American cuisine menu, including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts.
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Type | Wholly owned subsidiary |
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Industry | Restaurants |
When it was created | Wichita, Kansas (1958) |
Headquarters | Plano, Texas, U.S.[1] |
Key people | Dan and Frank Carney (Founders) |
Things made | Italian-American cuisine pizza pasta desserts |
Employees | 30,000+ |
Website | pizzahut.com |
HistoryEdit
Pizza Hut was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, by Dan and Frank Carvey.[2] The first Pizza Hut location was at a intersection in Wichita.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Pizza Hut hopes new headquarters in Plano will help bolster innovation". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ↑ "1958: Birth of a Pizza Chain". Time. Retrieved March 3, 2016.