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Article: Talk about crust Pizza Hut selling deep dish it calls Chicago-style
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 25, 2002
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Pizza Hut thinks it can do what Chicago pizza chefs have been
perfecting for years: bake a Chicago-style pizza.
Pizza Hut announced Tuesday it is selling its Chicago Dish Pizza
for $11.99. That includes three toppings of the customer's choice--
which the company says is sometimes half the price of Chicago-style
pizza at local Chicago pizza restaurants.
Many chains, such as Pizza Hut, Domino's and Little Caesars, have
been selling deep-dish pizza for years, a knock-off of the Chicago-
style pie invented here in 1943 by Ike Sewell, who started Pizzeria
Uno and Pizzeria Due. Pizza Hut, owned by Yum! Brands Inc. of
Louisville, Ky., is the first international pizza chain to offer what