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Pizza Hut India has announced that the company will focus on delivery as a key driver of business growth in 2019 and introduce various initiatives to further enhance the delivery experience for consumers. Coherent with this aim, the brand has launched a rider…
Pizza Hut Malaysia will open its 400th store in within the next three months. The company says it plans 15 new stores this calendar year, part of the 67 it announced last year within three years. Parent QSR Brands operates 810 KFC locations in its territory…
Pizza Hut International on Tuesday announced that Unnat Varma, Managing Director, Pizza Hut India Subcontinent has been elevated to the position of Managing Director, Pizza Hut Asia Pacific effective 1 January 2019. In his new role, he will be responsible for…
Yum! Restaurants-led Pizza Hut is betting big on technology. The brand is investing technology at each every step from taking orders to delivery of the pizza. Elaborating more on the same, Managing Director, Pizza Hut (India Subcontinent), Yum! Restaurants,…
Taco Bell Thailand is scheduled to launch in Bangkok early next year. Thoresen Thai Agencies, which also holds the Thailand franchise for Taco Bell’s sister brand Pizza Hut, is planning to open the restaurant in Mercury Ville mall on the BTS Chidlom stop. The…
Another day, another Dilly – or so the saying probably goes in Baedal Minjok’s head office. The food-delivery app’s Dilly Plate robot has started serving up slices at a Pizza Hut restaurant in Mok-dong, western Seoul, according to both companies on Wednesday.…
Yum China sales rose 12 per cent in the quarter to June 30, boosted by more stores and currency gains. But same-store sales declined across both of its brands and margins contracted. The company reported total sales of US$2.1 billion which on a…
A Gold Coast Pizza Hut operator has been hit with a $216,000 fine for exploiting an Indian delivery driver and trying to cover it up. The Fair Work Ombudsman took action against against Dong Zhao after one of his drivers complained he’d suffered anxiety and…
Malaysian fast-food group QSR Brands is mulling an IPO to raise around MR2 billion (US$509.6 million). QSR Brands operates the KFC and Pizza Hut restaurant franchises in Malaysia and is part owned by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, which is looking…
Pizza Hut Indonesia operator Sarimelati Kencana is planning an IPO to raise US$58.7 million. Sarimelati Kencana runs 237 Pizza Hut Restaurants and 156 delivery outlets across 76 centres in Indonesia. The company said, it will offer up to 604.375 million new…
Pizza Hut Singapore has introduced a robot that takes orders and processes payments. In a five-day trial ending on Sunday, diners at the Safra Punggol Pizza Hut outlet will be the first in Southeast Asia to be able to try out the new technology. After the…
A strong fourth quarter has been recorded by Yum China Holdings, which runs KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants on the mainland. Its unaudited results for the quarter to the end of December show 5 per cent growth in same-store sales, up 7 per cent at KFC and 1 per…
Ogilvy & Mather Singapore has won the local creative account for Pizza Hut following a pitch. The agency-of-record account marks an extension of Ogilvy’s regional creative brief with the restaurant chain’s parent company Yum! Brands. Ogilvy did not specify a…
QSR Brands Malaysia Holdings is investing more than RM100 million (US$25.6 million) into opening at least 35 KFC outlets this year. MD Datuk Mohamed Azahari Mohamed Kamil says the company will spend between RM3 million and RM4 million for each outlet, and…
The company that runs Pizza Hut Indonesia plans an IPO that could raise as much as US$150 million. Sriboga Raturaya has taken on advisers for a listing of its foodservice and restaurant franchising unit, which also runs the Japanese noodle chain Marugame…
Pizza Hut Australia has taken its next big step back into the fore, unveiling a new brand image and concept store in a bid to redefine its position in Australia’s highly competitive pizza market. The new store, launched yesterday in Sydney has been designed…
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