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  • New concept for Pizza Hut Hong Kong

    New concept for Pizza Hut Hong Kong

    Yum! Brands has unveiled a new concept store in Hong Kong – Pizza Hut Super Delco.

    The delivery-based, eat-in store model features smaller scale fast casual or a convenient eat-in area with seating for 30-50 customers. The company believes the new store model is ideal for locations with high traffic and in dense residential areas.

    In place of the stark, plastic look of the last generation of fast food stores, Pizza Hut Hong Kong Super Delco features cast iron ‘star-burst’ chandeliers, mosaic, light-wood tables and rustic grasses arranged amidst artisan olive oil bottles. In the words of Yum!, it looks more like a character-filled coffee bar than a pizza restaurant.

    Designed to create “a relaxing and intimate ambiance”, the new Super Delco offers “a flavorful oasis from the hectic lifestyle of millennials living in Hong Kong”, says Yum!.

    Pizza Hut Hong Kong is aiming to be the city’s ‘most loved’ pizza brand and the chain already boasts more than 100 outlets. It is one of the few Super Delco located anywhere in the world.

    Richard Leong, CEO of Pizza Hut Hong Kong, is excited about the opportunities the Delco Model store will bring to the region.

    “Pizza Hut Super Delco is a new business channel that will continue to be an engine of growth for us as the Hong Kong restaurant space becomes more competitive and the neighborhood dining scene is evolving. We also need to cater to a younger millennial generation seeking for a convenient meal replacement.”

    The Super Delco design was intentional as research showed that millennials in Hong Kong are looking for a relaxing place to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and light meals (e.g. Panini or cake) during weekends in their neighborhood.

    It’s not just the design of the new Super Delco that’s infused with flavour: the menu brings new dishes, offering solutions for small groups or individuals with a focus on pasta, rice and mini-pizza.

    Dishes already proving popular among local customers include the Chinese New Year Pizza – Cheesy 7 Fiesta in the shape of a flower, and in Taiwan, the Pineapple Bun Stuffed Crust Pizza.

    “The overwhelming amount of encouraging responses to the new store opening has given the Hong Kong Pizza Hut team confidence in this exciting new venture,” Yum! said in a statement.

    More Super Delcos will now be opened in Hong Kong during the year.

  • Yum’s China sales fall less than expected, shares rise

    Yum’s China sales fall less than expected, shares rise

    Yum Brands Inc, owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, said on Wednesday that sales at established restaurants in its biggest market China fell less than feared in the fourth quarter as it fights to recover from a food scandal involving a minor supplier, and its shares jumped 2.1 percent.

    Same-restaurant sales in China, Yum’s number one market for revenue and profit, fell 16 percent for the quarter that ended on 27 December on continued fallout from allegations that a former supplier used expired meat.

    But the decline was less severe than the 19.4 percent drop expected by analysts polled by Consensus Metrix, and shares in Yum rose USD1.51 to USD75.16 in extended trading.

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  • Pizza Hut to double Thai network

    Pizza Hut to double Thai network

    Pizza Hut Thailand plans to double its store network within five years.

    In an exclusive interview with The Nation newspaper, the new GM of Pizza Hut Thailand, Sabina Rizvi, says the company has a five year strategic plan to double its current 97-strong network and to achieve double digit profit growth.

    “We want to more than double the number of our Pizza Hut stores in Thailand in the next five years. We will invest more than half a billion baht (US$15.3 million) in our five-year expansion.”

    She said 70 per cent of the new stores would be delivery outlets.

    Last year Pizza Hut opened its first Express restaurant format in Thailand, in the Mega Bangna shopping centre in Bangkok and a second at Seacon Square. At just 50sqm, these outlets are a quarter the size of the standard 200sqm Pizza Hut restaurants in the country. With smaller footprints, rental rates are considerably lower, but the store’s focus is more on delivery or selling to customers who can dine in shared tables of a foodcourt environment.

    Rizvi said the stores were trading well.

    Pizza Hut Thailand posted eight per cent growth in the first three quarters of last year.

    “My vision is to make Pizza Hut the most loved pizza brand in Thailand,” Rizvi said.

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  • Pizza Hut to sell gluten-free pizza

    Pizza Hut to sell gluten-free pizza

    Beginning Jan. 26, roughly 2,400 of the chain’s 6,300 domestic locations will begin selling gluten-free pizzas. The move comes two years after rival Domino’s rolled out a pizza sold with a gluten-free crust — but not entirely gluten free. Pizza Hut will be the first major pizza chain to sell a pizza that is certified gluten-free.

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