Pizza Hut

Financing

Pizza Hut’s owner working to rebuild its development pipeline

Yum Brands, which also operates KFC, Taco Bell and Habit, doesn’t know when its normal rate of unit growth will return following a pandemic interruption.

Leadership

Tracy Skeans named chief operating officer of Taco Bell owner Yum Brands

The executive had been chief transformation and people officer and had already been acting as operations chief.

Pizza sales boomed during the pandemic. Technomic reveals consumers’ top picks.

The limited-time offer comes as competition in the pizza sector intensifies.

The giant Pizza Hut and Wendy’s franchisee is being sold to Flynn Restaurant Group and five other franchisees.

Flynn Restaurant Group will buy half of the 393 Wendy’s being sold by the bankrupt operator, along with all 900 Pizza Huts, while other operators will buy the remaining units of the burger chain.

Taste Tracker: Pizza Hut stuffs it to Papa John’s, Sonic enters the chicken sandwich wars and Dunkin’ buzzes in the new year.

The burger franchise is going to mediation in a dispute with its largest franchisee over a proposed bankruptcy sale to Flynn Restaurant Group.

Flynn Restaurant Group has an $816 million agreement to buy the big Pizza Hut and Wendy’s franchisee out of bankruptcy.

The private equity-owned operator will buy the locations in Virginia and West Virginia.

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