Article: Wichita, Kan., Pizza Hut Operator Lost $1.6 Million in 1997.

By Dennis Pearce, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 18--Lower sales and the closing of five restaurants caused American Restaurant Partners, a Wichita-based limited partnership that operates 63 Pizza Hut restaurants, to lose $1.6 million last year.

The company said this week in releasing its year-end and quarterly results that the loss came on sales of $38.9 million, about 40 cents per unit. (A unit is the partnership equivalent of a share.) In 1996, sales were $40.4 million and earnings were $1.6 million or 40 cents a unit.

The loss follows a fourth-quarter loss of $1.2 million, or 29 cents a unit, on ...

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