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Bengus81

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4. Pizza Hut corporate left Wichita for Texas probably 25-30 years ago

Wed Feb 19, 2025, 08:45 AM

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After being founded here and always HQ'ed here they moved but they were bought by Pepsi if I remember right decades before that. There were a lot of people in Wichita who never went with them in that move.

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100 People In Corporate? modrepub Wednesday #2

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Gave it up Gak73 Wednesday #38

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