Hunt Brothers Pizza operates 9,000 locations inside gas stations and convenience stores, generating $500 million annually. The chain puts tiny 50-100 square foot pizza stations in existing stores, selling slices for $2.89 and quarter-pizzas for $5.49. Operators pay $10k for equipment with no royalty fees, only required to buy ingredients from Hunt Brothers.
Our buddy Val tweeted this out. He goes, 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. 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 like 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.
