Pizza Hut news and trends

Yum Brands Q1 Earnings Show Digital Sales Surge Amid Broader Challenges
Earnings // May 01, 2024

Yum Brands, the company behind Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell, reported mixed results in its Q1 earnings announcement Wednesday (May 1) with challenges evident in its traditional sales channels, but a significant milestone in its digital growth strategy. Despite a 3% decline in same-store...

Yum Brands Doubles Tech Spending, Expands Use of Generative AI
ResTech // April 01, 2024

Fast food company Yum Brands aims to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across the operations of its restaurants. The parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and The Habit Burger Grill spent $21 million on “digital, technology and innovation capabilities” in 2023, up from $11...

Domino’s Trails Papa John’s in Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps
Mobile Order Ahead // February 12, 2024

Valentine’s Day is coming up, and if the way to your loved one’s heart is through their stomach, PYMNTS is here to help. Each month, the Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps determines the most popular restaurants in the industry based on certain metrics like...

Papa John’s Pizza Still Tops Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps
Mobile Order Ahead // January 05, 2024

The new year brings movers, shakers and newcomers to this ranking, as competition is sizzling in the mobile order-ahead realm. This edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps sees not only a triple tie but four double ties. Will our top three apps hold onto...

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Labor Day Edition — American Express, Pizza Wars And Wells Fargo

September 04, 2017
Today, nationwide, Americans are celebrating the joys of hard work and earning an honest day’s living by sleeping late, going one last time to the beach and soaking up the last of the 75 percent off Labor Day sales instead of going to work. It’s good to take one day a year to remind ourselves that perhaps the greatest joy […]

Quick Reads
Yum Brands Doubles Tech Spending, Expands Use of Generative AI

April 01, 2024
Fast food company Yum Brands aims to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across the operations of its restaurants. The parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and The Habit Burger Grill spent $21 million on “digital, technology and innovation capabilities” in 2023, up from $11 million the previous year, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported […]

California Pizza Huts Slash 1,200 Jobs as in-House Delivery Ends

December 27, 2023
Two California Pizza Hut locations are eliminating in-house delivery, resulting in 1,200-plus driver layoffs. The job cuts impact Pizza Hut delivery drivers across California, including at Sacramento, Palm Springs and...

Ransomware Attack Affects 300 UK Yum! Brand Restaurants

January 19, 2023
The fast food company Yum! Brands has announced a major cybersecurity breach in the U.K. In a Wednesday (Jan. 18) statement, the firm, which operates KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco...

Pizza Hut Will Add ‘Hut Lane’ Drive-Thru At 1,500 Locations

March 31, 2021
Pizza Hut will now be rolling out a new digital option called “The Hut Lane,” according to a company blog. The new service is touted as “doubling down on safety...