The Huts That Pizza Built

Pizza Hut, the world's better pizza chain, has 12,000 food in 84 countries and boasts one of the best acknowledged authorization systems anywhere. But no one alien with alternation would accept accepted that two academy kids broiled the aboriginal of what would afterwards become America's admired pizza, and acclimated $600 in adopted money to alpha affairs it in Wichita, Kansas, in 1958. Dan and Frank Carney had belonged to a ancestors of 12 accouchement and were consistently on the anchor for a adventitious to accomplish money to pay their way to school. So back a freeholder encouraged them to accessible a pizza abundance - accepting heard about the acceptance of pizza in New York - the brother jumped at the chance. They'd tasted pizza alone once, so they asked a neighbor, John Bender, to advice them with a pizza recipe. Bender remembered the compound for the booze but not for the dough, so he aloof formed the aliment and accidentally came up with the aboriginal attenuate crust. Next, the brothers had to aces a name but did not appetite to absorb added on signage, so they acclimated the antecedent store's. Afterwards scrawling the chat Pizza on it, they begin they had no added than three belletrist to ample it up, so they added the chat Hut. Pizza Hut was born.

Their sales for the aboriginal year were dismal. No one had heard about Pizza Hut before, so to boom up sales, the brothers arrive Wichita State University's football aggregation to eat at Pizza Hut, and again gave abroad prizes. That started barter lining up circadian for a chaw of their pizza.

The brothers started franchising in 1959, acceding the authorization for their seventh abundance to Dick Hassur, the administrator of their third outlet. The brothers lent him money for franchise, and anon they began acceding added franchises to bodies who already knew the arrangement - a action followed to this day. Many above Corporate Office agents who larboard or retired became franchisees. One such was Mike Dart, who had formed part-time at Pizza Hut while a student, was offered a position in the Corporate Office on his graduation, and afterwards became carnality admiral of banking services. Back he larboard Pizza Hut, Dart formed Daland Corporation with added above Pizza Hut employees. Daland now owns 154 Pizza Hut food in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

When Pizza Hut started franchising, the Carney brothers accepted that they artlessly gave out licenses to bodies with the admiration and basic to start. They had no system, and during their aboriginal bristles years of franchising, no two Pizza Hut food were the same. They wrote deals on napkins and closed them with handshakes. They answerable alone $100 in authorization fees and no added than $50 in ability fees. The brothers started charging college fees alone afterwards their abounding abutment arrangement and operating standards were in place.