Editing Pizza Hut (section)

===China===
In China, Pizza Hut ({{zh|first=s|s=必胜客|t=必勝客|p=Bìshèng Kè}}) used an altered business model, offering a fine-dining atmosphere with knives and forks and using an expanded menu catering to Chinese tastes.<ref name=ChanZakhourp96>Chan, Savio and Michael Zakkour. ''[[China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them]]''. [[John Wiley & Sons]], 2014. Online: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=13LvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 96]. {{ISBN|1118834747}}, 9781118834749. – print: {{ISBN|978-1-118-83474-9}} p. 162. ("The Great Pizza Wars: In China, Everything Is Possible, but Nothing Is Easy", start p. 96, in Chapter 12: The China Market + The China Global Demographic = China's Super Consumers)</ref> By 2008, Pizza Hut operated restaurants and delivery locations. That year, the company introduced "Pizza Hut Express", opening locations in [[Shanghai]], [[Shenzhen]], and [[Hangzhou]].<ref>"[http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2008-03/03/content_81139.htm Pizza Hut Express enters China market]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150526153446/http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2008-03/03/content_81139.htm Archive]). ''[[Shenzhen Daily]]''. March 3, 2008. Retrieved on May 26, 2015.</ref> The 160 restaurants were in 40 Chinese cities in 2005.<ref>"[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/14/content_416417.htm Pizza Hut accelerates expansion in China]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150924065314/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/14/content_416417.htm Archive]). ''[[Xinhua]]'' at ''[[China Daily]]''. February 14, 2005. Retrieved on May 26, 2015.</ref> As of 2015, Pizza Hut had 1,903 restaurants in China.<ref name="Yum!-Brands-AR2015">{{cite web |url=http://www.yum.com/app/uploads/2015YumBrands_AnnualReport.pdf |title=Yum! Brands, Annual Report 2015 |publisher=yum.com |access-date=May 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328180540/http://www.yum.com/app/uploads/2015YumBrands_AnnualReport.pdf |archive-date=March 28, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As of the end of March 2024, Pizza Hut has over 3400 outlets in over 700 cities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our Brands {{!}} KFC|url=https://ir.yumchina.com/our-brands/|access-date=June 21, 2024|website=[[Yum China]]|language=en}}</ref>

Savio S. Chan (陳少宏, Pinyin: ''Chén Shàohóng'') and Michael Zakkour, authors of ''[[China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them]]'', stated middle-class Chinese perceive Pizza Hut as "akin to fine dining", though Pizza Hut was "China's largest and most successful foreign casual-dining chain".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTfxAwAAQBAJ&q=%22China%27s+largest+and+most+successful+foreign+casual-dining+chain%22&pg=PA96|title=China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them|first1=Savio|last1=Chan|first2=Michael|last2=Zakkour|date=September 3, 2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|via=Google Books|isbn=9781118905906}}</ref>