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In the early 1990s, Pizza Hut sought to attract children and pre-teenagers to build its dine-in business. [1] Through comedy writer Walter Williams and San Francisco advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Pizza Hut created The Pizza Head Show, a series of television commercials [1] to convey the message that Pizza Hut meant "weird fun". [2]
Pizza Hut, LLC [3] is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by brothers Dan and Frank Carney.The chain, headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates 19,866 restaurants worldwide as of 2023.
PepsiCo divested the brands in 1997, and these consolidated as Yum! The company operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, WingStreet (Pizza Hut's chicken wing menu), and Habit Burger & Grill since 2020, except in China, where the brands are operated by another company known as Yum China. Yum! previously also owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants.
Heidenreich was also the host of the children's game show Challenger until he left the show and Adrian de Vito & Zoe Sheridan co-hosted the show together. From 1993 to 1996 and again since 2019, Heidenreich starred in a series of television commercials for Pizza Hut , as 'Dougie the Pizza Delivery Guy', which he still is commonly known as.
NPC was the largest franchisee of both Pizza Hut and Wendy's, and owned more than 1,200 Pizza Hut locations and 385 Wendy's locations until March 2021. [2] O. Gene Bicknell opened his first franchised Pizza Hut restaurant in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1962. In 1984, Bicknell and NPC went public, finishing the decade with 320 locations.
Trump has also appeared in a number of television commercials for Pizza Hut. The first of these commercials aired in the United States in 1995, and featured him and his ex-wife Ivana promoting Stuffed Crust pizzas.
Frank became a franchisee of Papa John's Pizza in 1994. [2] By 2001, he owned 133 locations. Based in Houston, his company runs stores in Kansas, Arizona, Missouri, California, Texas and Hawaii, including several in his hometown of Wichita and the suburbs of Derby and Andover, under the franchise name PJ Wichita LLC., before selling the franchise to then Franchise President Terry Newman.
From 2020 to 2021, Robinson hosted the reality dancing show The Masked Dancer. He also has appeared in commercials for Pizza Hut, Dietz & Watson, Walmart, Dodge Motors, and Gain detergent. Since 2022, Robinson stars in and executive produces the Peacock series Killing It.