First Opened at Bluff and Kellogg Streets

Two former WSU students, Dan and Frank Carney, borrowed $600 to open this first Pizza Hut. Their corporation grew to become the world's largest pizza chain and was sold to PepsiCo in 1977 for $300,000,000.

The building was moved to this site to serve as a symbol and reminder to our students how young individuals through hard work and initiative can still rise from modest beginnings to positions of leadership and success. To future young entrepreneurs this building is dedicated.

Assisting the Carney brothers in preserving and restoring this structure during 1984 were:

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This plaque was donated by Professor Fran Jabara, Founder and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, to honor my former students

Marker is on Perimeter Road 0.1 miles east of Harvard Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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