Tasty trivia and deals for Pizza Hut’s Hut Day!
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June 5 is Hut Day, and to celebrate, we found some tasty trivia about Pizza Hut!
🍕 Pizza Hut was founded by brothers Dan and Frank Carney, still in college, when they borrowed $600 from their mother in 1958 to open a pizza place while attending Wichita State University.
🍕 Before the red roof logo was adopted in 1969, Pizza Hut had a cartoon mascot, Pizza Pete, who also served as its logo. Pizza Pete was still used in the 1970s on bags, cups, and advertisements, but was eventually phased out.
🍕 Pizza Hut once offered a limited-edition perfume that smelled like “fresh dough with a bit of spice.” The packaging for the perfume, originally only available through promotional contests, looked like mini pizza boxes. A few surfaced on eBay for as much as $495.
🍕 A hot item in the 1970s were Pizza Hut Easy-Bake ovens. Kids could use the toy to bake tiny Pizza Hut pizzas under a 60-watt light bulb.
🍕 Pizza Hut used star power in their commercials. Celebrities like Elijah Wood, then 11, Ringo Starr, the Monkees and former Soviet statesman Mikhail Gorbachev all appeared in Pizza Hut ads.
🍕 Pizza Hut’s Book It! program is 40! Kicked off in 1984, the program encouraged kids to read by rewarding them with “praise, recognition and pizza.”
🍕 Pizza Hut was early to online ordering. In 1994, Pizza Hut and The Santa Cruz Operation created PizzaNet, a then-unique program allowing computer users to place orders via the internet.
🍕 Pizza Hut pizza has been to space! In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company to deliver pizza into space. The pizza recipe had to undergo “rigorous stabilized thermal conditions” to ensure it would be edible when it got to the International Space Station.
🍕 Pizza Hut accounts for 3% of U.S. cheese production. The company uses over 300 million pounds of cheese each year and is one of the largest cheese buyers in the world. To make that much cheese, 170,000 cows are used to produce an estimated 300 billion gallons of milk.
To celebrate Hut Day, Pizza Hut locations owned and operated by Flynn Group LP (FG) are offering a one-day-only BOGO deal exclusively on Wednesday, June 5. Guests who purchase any large menu-priced pizza will receive a large one-topping pizza for free by using the promo code FREEPIZZA.
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