The $540 Million A Year Pizza Business

Name: The $540 Million A Year Pizza Business
Uploaded: 2024-05-15T02:27:54+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this segment Sam Parr (via a retweet from Val) introduces Hunt Brothers Pizza, a largely unknown pizza chain that has built a $500 million‑plus annual…

15 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment Sam Parr (via a retweet from Val) introduces Hunt Brothers Pizza, a largely unknown pizza chain that has built a $500 million‑plus annual business by deploying ultra‑small pizza units (50‑100 sq ft) inside existing convenience stores and gas stations. The model places a compact pizza kitchen in the host location, allowing the host to serve a hot pizza in about five minutes. The product is sold by the slice or a "hunk" (a quarter‑pizza) at $2.89 each (or two hunks for $5.49). Operators purchase the equipment for roughly $10,000, but unlike traditional franchises there are no ongoing royalties, licensing fees, or contracts; the only requirement is that they buy the pizza ingredients from Hunt Brothers. The company has scaled to roughly 9,000 locations nationwide, generating over $500 million in revenue, illustrating a novel, low‑overhead franchise‑free approach to fast‑food pizza distribution.

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Our buddy Val tweeted this out. The biggest pizza chain in the country is one I've never heard of, Hunt Brothers Pizza. These guys went in and basically found a new way to do the pizza business. They've spread to 9,000 stores, and I'm pretty sure they're doing over $500 million a year in revenue. What these guys do is they created a pizza restaurant that is only 50 or 100 square feet. The way it works is they put them into convenience stores, gas stations. The owner of the gas station now has a little pizza shop inside, so he can pop in a pizza, it takes 5 minutes, it comes out broiling hot, and they can sell them by the slice, or as they call them, by the hunk. A hunk of pizza is 1/4 of a pizza, and they sell it for like $2.89, or you can get 2 hunks for $5.49. Basically, you buy the equipment for $10 grand, but then after that, there's no contract, there's no licensing fee, there's no royalty fee. So it's very different than a traditional franchise. All you do is you have to buy the ingredients from them.