Editing Pizza Hut (section)

===Russia===
[[File:Pizza Hut sign in Moscow, Russia, just before the store opened, 1990.jpg|thumb|Pizza Hut advertisement in [[Moscow]], Russia in January 1990, just before the restaurant opened]]
Former Soviet Union leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] starred in a [[Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial|1998 Pizza Hut commercial]] with his granddaughter Anastasia Virganskaya to raise money for the Perestroyka Archives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/23/gorby.pizza/ |date=December 23, 1997 |newspaper=CNN |title=Gorbachev's pitch for pizza released |access-date=August 14, 2019 |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722161634/http://http/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The ad "obviously exploited the shock value of having a former world leader appear... [and] played on the fact that Gorbachev was far more popular outside Russia than inside it". It was filmed on a multi-million budget with a cinematic quality, including mounting cameras on the [[Kremlin]] and shutting down [[Red Square]] to get the establishing shots of the square, and dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles, to show Pizza Hut as a global brand compared to its American rivals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/28/mikhail-gorbachev-pizza-hut-ad-thanksgiving-miracle/|title=Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle|first=Paul|last=Musgrave|access-date=December 1, 2019|archive-date=December 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201001221/https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/28/mikhail-gorbachev-pizza-hut-ad-thanksgiving-miracle/|url-status=live}}</ref>

More recently, Pizza Hut has had various celebrity spokespeople, including [[Jessica Simpson]], [[the Muppets]], [[Damon Hill]], and [[Murray Walker]].

In 2000, Pizza Hut paid for their logo to appear on a Russian [[Proton (rocket family)|Proton rocket]], which launched the Russian [[Zvezda (ISS module)|Zvezda]] module.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news|url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/13/alpha.products/ |title=Pitching products in the final frontier |work=CNN |date=June 13, 2001 |access-date=May 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105095945/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/13/alpha.products/ |archive-date=January 5, 2010 }}</ref>