Before Ordering Your Next Pizza, You Should Know These 15 Things About Pizza Hut

by N/A, 9 years ago | 2 min read

There's a lot your should know about this pizza giant.

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1. Many locations have been repurposed.

2. It was founded by two brothers.

Dan and Frank Carney were students at Wichita State University when the opened the pizza shop in 1958.

3. They've offered engagement packages.

Newly engaged couples could get the engagement pizza pack, which included a $10 dinner box, a limo, a ruby ring, fireworks, flowers, and a photographer, for $10,010.

4. The Book It! Program has been around for 30 years.

The Book It! program, which encourages children to read (and offers them pizza in exchange) has been around since 1984.

5. The pizza has been to space.

In 2001, a pizza was sealed and sent to the International Space Station.

6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was great for the brand.

Pizza Hut spent about $20 million on campaign materials for the partnership between the brand and the movie.

7. There was once a mascot for the company.

Before the red roof logo became synonymous with Pizza Hut, a mustached man named Pizza Pete was the mascot.

8. They wanted to appear on the moon, but haven't yet.

A marketing campaign suggesting that the brand's logo be projected on the moon was turned down in 1998 after they realized that it would cost them hundreds of millions of dollars.

9. Pizza Hut perfume once existed.

Pizza Hut planned to release a perfume in 2012 that smelled like fresh dough, with a little bit of spice. It was released via contests on Facebook and Twitter. You can find bottles for sale on eBay.

10. There are lots of famous people in Pizza Hut commercials.

An 11-year-old Elijah Wood starred in a commercial and Ringo Starr appeared in one too.

11. Pizza Hut introduced the pan pizza.

They started the craze in 1980 and Domino's and other competitors quickly followed.

12. You can even buy a Pizza Hut Easy Bake Oven.

In the 70's, you could bake little pizzas under a 60 watt light bulb with this Easy Bake Oven.

13. Franchises popped up almost immediately.

Within a year of starting the business, the first franchise was opened in Topeka, Kansas.

14. The company accounts for 3% of U.S. cheese production.

They use more than 300 million pounds of cheese a year.

15. They were the first company to offer online ordering.

They started PizzaNet in 1994.