Pizza Hut
American multinational restaurant chain
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| 2025 | Pizza Hut ceases operations in Chile due to challenging economic sales conditions. |
| 2025 | Pizza Hut announces plans to return to Argentina, with exact date of re-entry not yet confirmed. |
| 2024 | Release of documentary film 'Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts', directed by Matthew Salleh, which explores the repurposing of abandoned Pizza Hut restaurant buildings across America. |
| September 2024 | Pizza Hut celebrated its 50th anniversary in New Zealand with pop-up lunch and dinner buffet and dessert events in Auckland. |
| June 2024 | Some Pizza Hut locations reportedly reintroduced the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. |
| May 2024 | Australian franchisee Pizza Pan Group was fined AU$2.5 million for sending 10 million marketing spam messages in violation of Australian spam laws. |
| March 31 2024 | Pizza Hut reached over 3,400 outlets in more than 700 cities in China, significantly expanding its market presence from the 1,903 restaurants reported in a previous period. |
| 2023 | Pizza Hut UK restaurants introduced Beyond Meat Pepperoni to their menus, launching innovative vegan pizza options including the Big New Yorker with vegan cheese and Beyond Pepperoni. |
| June 2023 | Allegro sold Pizza Hut Australia to US franchise operator Flynn Restaurant Group. |
| 2022 | Pizza Hut suspends operations in Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2022 | Pizza Hut ceases operations in Panama after reporting economic losses. |
| March 2022 | Pizza Hut signed a sponsorship deal to become the official Quick Service Restaurant for the Supercars Championship. |
| 2021 | Pizza Hut sponsored the #14 Brad Jones Racing Holden ZB Commodore driven by Todd Hazelwood for the Darwin Triple Crown and Townsville 500. |
| 2021 | Pizza Hut introduced a special menu item to commemorate the 25th anniversary of stuffed crust pizza: 'nothing but the stuffed crust', a ring of dough filled with cheese. |
| March 2021 | Flynn Restaurant Group acquired NPC's 937 Pizza Hut locations. |
| August 18 2020 | Pizza Hut announced it would close up to 300 restaurants following the bankruptcy of NPC International, one of its largest franchisees. |
| March 2020 | Pizza Hut Hong Kong partnered with IKEA on a joint venture, creating a pizza box-inspired side table and a cross-promotional menu item. |
| August 7 2019 | Pizza Hut announced plans to close about 500 of its 7,496 dine-in restaurants in the US by mid-2021. |
| June 25 2019 | Pizza Hut announced it was bringing back the logo and red roof design used from 1976 to 1999. |
| March 2019 | Pizza Hut announced the return of the P'Zone pizza after several years of absence. |
| January 2019 | Pizza Hut announced beer delivery expansion to 300 locations across the US, with plans to reach 1,000 locations by mid-year. |
| 2018 | Pizza Hut officially launched its first restaurant in Ethiopia, expanding its international presence into the African market. |
| February 2018 | Pizza Hut signed a sponsorship deal to become the official pizza sponsor for the National Football League. |
| 2016 | Private equity firm Allegro Funds and a local management team acquired the master franchise agreement for Pizza Hut in Australia from Yum! Brands. |
| February 2016 | The original New Lynn dine-in restaurant was demolished and replaced with a takeaway store. |
| 2015 | The oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut in the Aggieville District of Manhattan, Kansas, closed after opening in 1960. |
| October 2015 | Pizza Hut signed sponsorship deals with the Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, and American Airlines Center. |
| 2014 | Curbed.com reported 6,304 traditional Pizza Hut units still standing with the iconic shingled roofs and trapezoidal windows, despite the company's shift towards delivery. |
| November 19 2014 | Pizza Hut announced a rebrand to increase sales, expanding the menu and redesigning employee uniforms. |
| 2012 | Pizza Hut opened a standalone WingStreet pilot store in Denton, Texas, which was unsuccessful and closed the following year. |
| March 31 2011 | Priszm, owner of Pizza Hut in Canada, went into bankruptcy protection in Ontario and British Columbia. |
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