Pizza Hut closed hundreds of stores last year: See where restaurants shuttered as new ownership takes effect

In June, fast-food restaurant giant Yum Brands announced it would sell Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital. Yesterday, LongRange Capital announced it had completed its acquisition. The pizza chain has seen significant changes to its physical store footprint in recent years. Before being acquired, Pizza Hut closed 261 U.S. stores in 2025, according to the pizza chain’s latest franchise disclosure document (FDD), released in March 2026. Those store closures have continued into this year. According to the document, Pizza Hut operated 5,031 franchise and company-owned locations across the United States at the end of fiscal year 2025, a net loss of 206 restaurants from the start of the year. Of those locations, 75 were company-owned and 4,956 were franchised. Which states lost the most Pizza Hut locations? Pizza Hut closed 259 franchised locations across 40 states in 2025. (The document notes that some of those stores have relocated.) Here’s how many stores closed in each state: California: 28 Florida: 25 Illinois: 20 Georgia: 18 Texas: 16 Indiana: 10 Minnesota: 10 Pennsylvania: 10 Wisconsin: 10 Louisiana: 9 New York: 9 Alabama: 8 Ohio: 8 Maryland: 6 South Carolina: 6 Ke…