The Sicilian Pan Pizza is introduced.
Units open in Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.
Pizza Hut raises $342,000 for Easter Seals from national promotion.
Pan Pizza is introduced throughout the system.
Restaurant number 4,000 opens.
The Pizza Hut ET glass promotion is picked as the top marketing promotion of 1982 by the editorial staff of Chain Marketing and Management.
Pizza Hut serves one and a half million pounds of pasta annually.
Personal Pan Pizza®, with a five-minute guarantee, is introduced throughout the system.
Pizza Hut celebrates 25th anniversary.
Pizza Hut employs 10,000 teenagers from 16 to 19 years old.
BOOK IT!® national reading incentive program is launched with 200,000 elementary students enrolled.
There are more pizza locations than hamburger restaurants in the United States. Pizzerias account for 9.9% of all restaurants in the U.S.
Priazzo® and Calizza® are introduced.
The system celebrates the opening of its 5,000th restaurant, located in Dallas, Texas.
Delivery service, as a new concept, is initiated.
Fastest construction of a Pizza Hut restaurant takes place in Wichita, KS --- 39 days from start to finish. The national average is 85 days.
Hand-Tossed Traditional Pizza is introduced throughout the system.
Pizza Hut celebrates its 30th anniversary with a total of more than 6,000 restaurants and delivery units worldwide.
President Ronald Reagan awards Private Initiative Citation to Pizza Hut President Art Gunther for the creation of BOOK IT!® Program.
The Pizza Hut Jobs Plus® program expands nationwide to employ more than 10,000 individuals with physical and developmental disabilities. The Jobs Plus program is recognized as the largest corporate initiative of its kind in the food service industry.
Pizza Hut opens its 1,000th international unit in Welland, Ontario, Canada. Pizza Hut now serves 54 countries.
Pizza Hut sells 9.1 million "Land Before Time" puppets. When released to the public, the movie enjoyed the largest opening ever for an animated feature.
For the first time in history, Pizza Hut pizza is delivered to the White House. First Lady Barbara Bush throws a party for 200 Washington, D.C. children during a "Reading is Fundamental" reception.
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