<Li> Yum China within China </Li> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.pizzahut.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 by Dan and Frank Carney . The company is known for its Italian - American cuisine menu including pizza and pasta, as well as side dishes and desserts . Pizza Hut has over 16,000 locations worldwide as of 2015, and is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., one of the world's largest restaurant companies . </P> <P> Pizza Hut was founded in June 1958 by two Wichita State University students, brothers Dan and Frank Carney, as a single location in Wichita, Kansas . PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut in 1977 . Before closing in 2015, the oldest continuously operating Pizza Hut was in Manhattan, Kansas, in a shopping and tavern district known as Aggieville near Kansas State University . The first Pizza Hut restaurant east of the Mississippi River opened in Athens, Ohio in 1966 by Lawrence Berberick and Gary Meyers . </P>

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