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Article: Not your old Pizza Hut. (La-Van Hawkins Urban City Foods Management Inc to reform Pizza Hut stores in Detroit, Michigan)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- July 6, 1998
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New owner to move HQ here, redo stores
Detroit area Pizza Huts soon will have a new look and a new attitude.
La-Van Hawkins, principal owner of La-Van Hawkins Urban City Foods Management Inc., recently bought 89 Pizza Hut stores in metropolitan Detroit and plans to give each one a makeover. That covers all but one location in Pizza Hut's Detroit market and includes both dine-in and carryout/delivery stores.
More than half the Pizza Huts also will serve Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hawkins said.
Hawkins also owns 17 Burger King franchises here and 55 in seven other markets. He is known for putting his personal touch - Afro-centric design ...