Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) is an international fast food pizza delivery corporation headquartered just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Tom Monaghan. As of 2006, it had 8,000 corporate and franchised stores in more than 54 countries. It was the second-largest pizza chain in the United States when it went public in 2004 for just under $15 a share
On April 1, 2008, Pizza Hut sent emails to customers advertising that they now offer pasta items on their menu. The email (and similar advertising on the company’s website) stated “Pasta so good we’ve changed our name to ‘Pasta Hut’.” The name change was a publicity stunt held in conjunction with April Fools’ Day, extending through the month of April, with the company’s Dallas headquarters changing its exterior logo to Pasta Hut. This name change was also used to promote the new Pizza Hut menu to be newly introduced, which included a much larger focus on child’s menu’s and the introduction of a free salad bowl with every child’s meal. Also the new tortilla wraps used to make Spin Rolls and Chicken Wraps have a much higher fiber content than before. The First Pasta Hut Ad has the Original Pizza Hut restaurant being imploded and recreated, but when they construct the new building, the sign saying “Pasta Hut” is placed on the building.
Pizza Hut’s main advertising slogan is “Gather ’round the good stuff”. Pizza Hut does not have an official international mascot, but at one time, there were commercials in the United States called ‘The Pizza Head Show.’ These commercials ran from 1993-1997 and were based loosely on the Mr. Bill shorts from Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. The ads featured a slice of pizza with a face made out of toppings called ‘Pizza Head’. 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”.
An analysis conducted by a team of HACCP certified food safety auditors, upon 1000 restaurants worldwide, has concluded that compared to the other major fast food corporations, Pizza Hut have a much significant reduction of fat. However, it has been proven that the salt contents in the meat-containing pizzas, have a relatively high amount.
It has also been brought to light that Pizza Hut uses a Silicone–Based Chemical, Polymethylsiloxane, as an additive in their cheese. . This chemical has not received final FDA approval as a safe food additive.
Pizza Hut sells pizzas in four different sizes: personal (an individual serving), small, medium and large, though most stores have done away with the small size. A variety of toppings are available, plus “specialty” styles, including Meat Lovers, Pepperoni Lovers, Cheese Lovers, Veggie Lovers, Double Cheeseburger, Supreme, Super Supreme and the newly introduced Pizza Mia. The pan pizza has a thicker crust than most other commercially available pizzas. Unlike most of Pizza Hut’s competitors (such as Domino’s deep dish or Papa John’s Perfect Pan), Pizza Hut does not charge extra for its pan pizza, except in Poland Australia
Pizza Hut also sells Stuffed Crust pizza, with the outermost edge wrapped around a coil of mozzarella cheese; Hand-Tossed, more like traditional pizzeria crusts; Thin ‘N Crispy, a thin, crispy 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; and The Edge pizza, where the toppings nearly reach to the edge of the pizza. There is a crust that is not as thick as its pan pizza, and not as thin as its thin crust, used on the Full House XL pizza, discontinued in 2007.
The chain was founded in 1958 by Dan and Frank Carney. The Original Pizza Hut building was later relocated to the Wichita State University campus.Additional restaurants were opened, with the first franchise unit opening in 1959 in Topeka, Kansas. At the same time Pizza Hut was growing in and around Kansas, Shakey’s Pizza was developing a stronghold along the West Coast. The competition provided Pizza Hut the impetus to evaluate its mission and direction. Dan and Frank Carney saw Shakey’s expanding into their territory and realized that they needed to determine if Pizza Hut should be in the entertainment business or if it should be a neighborhood pizza restaurant. They decided to stick with the neighborhood business and realized that they needed to have a good standard image. The Carney brothers began to systematize operations and building designs to counter the competition from Shakey’s. The franchise network continued to grow through friends and business associates, and by 1964 a unique standardized building appearance and layout was established for franchised and company-owned stores, creating a universal look that customers easily recognized.
By 1970, with 314 stores nationwide, Pizza Hut went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker symbol PIZ. In 1977, Pizza Hut was acquired by Pepsico, who later also bought KFC and Taco Bell. In 1997, the three restaurant chains were spun off into Tricon, and in 2002 joined with Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants to become YUM! Brands. Pizza Hut has opened Pizza Hut Express which specialize in small 9″ pizzas. The oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut in the world is in Manhattan, Kansas, in a shopping and tavern district known as Aggieville.
Pizza Hut is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Addison, Texas, USA (a northern suburb of Dallas) specializing in American-style pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread. Pizza Hut is the world’s largest pizza restaurant chain and is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., whose restaurants total approximately 34,000 restaurants, delivery-carry out units, and kiosks in 100 countries.
Pizza Hut is split into two restaurant concepts, the original family dining-style Pizza Hut and the fast food concept Pizza Hut Express. The original format stores are full service pizzeria with a larger menu, wait staff and seating while the Pizza Hut Express locations are fast food style restaurants with limited menu and service. The Pizza Hut Express locations are often paired with Yum! Brands’ other concept Wing Street.
A pizza farm or pizza garden is a circular region of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza wedges.
The farm’s segments produce ingredients that can be used in pizza, such as wheat for the crust, tomatoes or herbs, pigs for pork for pepperoni.
This has grown into cottage industry in the United States, more as a tourist and specialty niche than as a serious supplier of pizza ingredients to the food industry at large.
It has also become a novelty style for organizing gardens.
Some pizzas can be very high in salt and fat and concerns have been raised about the negative effect these pizzas can have on people’s health.[10] Pizza Hut has come under criticism for the high salt content of some of their meals which were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an adult
However, it should also be noted that commercially made fast food pizza is very different from well made Italian pizza, particularly from a good restaurant which is concerned with using only good ingredients, or even more so in a homemade pizza. The salt and saturated fat content of a homemade pizza is usually far less if using original recipes. Mozzarella cheese is not as fatty as many other cheeses, and should be used judiciously in any event. Feta cheese, which has an even lower saturated fat content, is often used in homemade pizza recipes. There is the added bonus of being able to include other healthy ingredients as well, such as fresh tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, rocket, spinach, courgettes (baby marrow) and eggplant, as just a few examples.
In Italy there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing(e.g., excluding frozen pizzas). Only pizzas which followed these guidelines could be called “traditional Italian pizzas”, at least in Italy.
Italy has also requested that the European Union safeguard some traditional Italian pizzas, such as “Margherita” and “marinara The European Union enacted a protected designation of origin system in the 1990s.