Pizza Hut’s Lack of Foot Traffic Plagues Store Sales


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Pizza Hut is banking on delivery to get store sales back to where they once were, and it soon may have help from Yum! Brands' official delivery partner, Grubhub.

Pizza Hut’s parent company, Yum Brands, is still dissatisfied with the brand’s store sales, which have been plagued by low foot traffic in recent quarters. The Plano, Texas-based chain reported flat comparable-store growth in the fourth quarter, with a small 1 percent uptick in system-wide sales for the entirety of 2018. Results, however, lag in comparison to the 3 percent and 6 percent comparable sales bumps posted by other Yum Brands subsidiaries KFC and Taco Be