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2 gru 2020 · Frank Carney, who with his brother started the Pizza Hut empire in Wichita, died Wednesday from pneumonia. He was 82. Carney had recently recovered from COVID-19, but had Alzheimer's disease...
4 gru 2020 · Frank Carney, who founded Pizza Hut with his brother Dan and helped build it into the world’s largest pizza chain, died on Wednesday at an assisted living facility in Wichita, Kan. He was 82.
3 gru 2020 · The co-founder of Pizza Hut knew little about the Italian treat growing up in Kansas. But he built the pizza business with his brother and later defected to the rival Papa John’s pizza chain.
2 gru 2020 · Frank Carney was a 19-year-old student at Wichita State University when he and his 26-year-old brother, Dan, borrowed $600 from their mother to start a pizza business in 1958 near their family's Carney's Market.
He was also CEO of Pizza Hut, which is owned by Yum!, president and CFO of Yum! Restaurants International, Yum! Brands chief strategy officer and served in various real estate and restaurant development leadership roles in KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
Pizza Hut, LLC [4] is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. The chain, headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates 19,866 restaurants worldwide as of 2023. [5]
The Carneys, who owned 10 percent of the company's stock, pocketed a cool $32 million. Frank was asked by PepsiCo to remain as Pizza Hut's president and to serve on PepsiCo's board of directors as well. Carney did so until 1980, when he left both posts and the pizza business for good.
