Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Pizza Hut Franchise
A Yum! Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1959. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Pizza Hut, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $367K – $1.8M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 18,381
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.1M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry pizza-hut Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut needs $367K–$1.8M to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $367K
- HI $1.8M
- FEE $25K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 18,381
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #71/223
- UNT# #9/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Little Caesars ($380K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Pizza Hut (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Pizza Hut's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -0.8% net unit growth (YoY) 11/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Pizza Hut's investment ranks nationally
Pizza Hut's listed Item 7 low of $367K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Pizza Hut vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$367,000 Around the middle lower than 32% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $25K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.3%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.1M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
550 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1958
- Franchising Since
- 1959
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Pizza Hut
This Pizza Hut page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Pizza Hut.
Large-network capital outlay for Pizza Hut
Signature read: 18,381 locations · Item 7 low $367K
Pizza Hut, a Yum! Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1959 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1958 , currently with 18,381 total locations (17,673 franchised, 708 company-owned; 96% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in TX. The registry records a total initial investment between $367K and $1.8M, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $25K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales with a separate 4.3% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 10.3%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Pizza Hut. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.1M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $66K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Pizza Hut's footprint shrank over the past year, down 0.8% with 550 closures on the record. This is a network-count observation only; the registry does not record reasons for openings or closures.
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Related reading for Pizza Hut: Understanding FDDs , Pizza Hut lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Pizza Hut's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Pizza Hut , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($367K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (18,381 here).
What to do with this
Pizza Hut at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Pizza Hut scores 56/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $367K – $1.8M entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #71 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Little Caesars sits at a comparable investment level ($380K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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