Guide Note

The world's largest pizza chain, Pizza Hut specializes in personal and "pan" pizzas, which comes with a thicker crust. They also serve pasta, breadsticks and buffalo wings.

Pizza Hut is owned by the PepsiCo subsidiary Yum! Brands, Inc., which also owns Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell.

Fast Facts

1. 1958: First opened in Wichita, Kansas
2. 34,000 Locations
3. Locations in over 100 countries
4. Tagline: Gather 'round the good stuff
5. Headquarters: Addison, Texas
6. One personal pan pizza contains 620 calories and 11 grams of saturated fat

Since the early 1990s, Pizza Hut has introduced several new menu items, some of which have been discontinued. The large, rectangular "Bigfoot" pizza was available for under a year. Their "Stuffed Crust" variant, however, has been a successful menu item since the late 1990s.

Pizza Hut has frequently had endorsements from celebrities, including commercials featuring Donald Trump, Ringo Starr, Rush Limbaugh and Jessica Simpson. Prominent product placement appeared in Back to the Future Part II, when the McFly family quickly heats up a Pizza Hut pizza that comes in a small silver package.