Pizza Hut History
In 1958, Frank and Dan Carney had an idea for a great local pizza restaurant in Wichita Kansas. When a friend suggested opening a pizza parlor--then a rarity--they agreed that the idea could prove successful, and they borrowed $600 from their mother to start a business with partner John Bender.
Renting a small building at 503 South Bluff in downtown Wichita and purchasing secondhand equipment to make pizzas, the Carneys and Bender opened the first Pizza Hut restaurant; on opening night, they gave pizza away to encourage community interest. The small 25 seat restaurant only had room for 9 letters on the sign… the building looked like a hut… so 'Pizza Hut' was born!
A year later, in 1959, Pizza Hut was incorporated in Kansas, and Dick Hassur opened the first franchise unit in Topeka, Kansas. Fifteen years later, we opened the first UK restaurant and since then we've become the biggest Pizza Company on the planet!
A subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., the company oversees more than 11,000 pizza restaurants and delivery outlets in 90 countries worldwide.
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Fun Facts in Pizza Hut Histor
- Pizza hut are the world's largest user of cheese, one of their secret recipes is the Insider pizza and that alone uses a pound of cheese on each pizza. Over the course of a summer, it is estimated that Pizza hut uses a 100 million pounds of cheese. Pizza Hut uses more than 300 million pounds of cheese annually.
- To make that amount of cheese requires 360 million gallons of milk.
- Pizza Hut purchases more than 3 percent of all cheese production in the United States, which requires a herd of about 170,000 dairy cows to produce it.
- They also use 700.000.000 pounds of pepperoni and 525.000.000 pound of tomatoes in one year.
- Ringo Starr (the drummer of the Beatles) played in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1995, together with The Monkees.
- Gorbachev (the former president of the USSR) also played in a Pizza Hut commercial.
- In 2001 Pizza Hut sponsored a pizza delivery to the international space station.
- One of the bad guys in the movie Spaceballs is called Pizza the Hutt.
- The oldest Pizza Hut that is still functional is in Wichita, Kansas.
