Pizza Hut

About Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut, LLC 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 19,974 restaurants worldwide as of 2025.
On the show — 46 mentions total
He invented it in the 1980s and Pizza Hut stole it. He once accidentally made a pizza badly, made the crust too big, saw there's this big hole in my crust — let's stuff it with cheese.
from 544: No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 at 00:45:33 · read transcript
Other times Pizza Hut came up
With money in mind. Like the invention of the car, which just somehow magically happens. The crucial thing is, he's got a patent. Then he called up Pizza Place, he called up Pizza Hut and said, look, do you want this stuffed crust thing I've invented? Pizza Hut said, no. Eight years later, what shows up on Pizza Hut's menu? It's a stuffed crust. What did they claim?
544: No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 · listen
It was a limited edition offer in 2012 and it came with a red ruby ring, a limousine, which took you to your location of choice, flowers, fireworks, a photographer, and the cherry on the icing, a $10 dinner box. What's a $10 dinner box? It's like a box with a pizza in it, some cheese sticks. Another thing that Pizza Hut has is its own perfume called Ode to Pizza Hut. It smells apparently like a freshly opened box of pizza, although a professional smellologist, whatever we're calling them, actually said it smells like cinnamon, baby powder, and most overwhelmingly, feet. They're not my favorite toppings.
25: No Such Thing As A Randy Rat In Polyester Pants, 2014-09-05 · listen
Hey, you want to hear some stuff about pizza? Go on. This was a publicity stunt by Pizza Hut in the early 2000s. They claimed that they were the first company in the world to deliver a pizza to outer space because the company sent one on a Russian rocket to the International Space Station. Then Yuri Usachev, one of the Russian cosmonauts living there, ate it.
25: No Such Thing As A Randy Rat In Polyester Pants, 2014-09-05 · listen
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Coordinates: 33.0198, -96.6989