Where Did All Those Pizza Hut/Taco Bell Hybrid Restaurants Go?

The combination of Taco Bell and Pizza Hut under one roof was possible because both chains share the same corporate parent, Yum! Brands. However, most locations will close by 2024.

Yum! started opening these hybrid locations in the early 2000s to compete with McDonald's, believing the combination of pizza and fast Mexican would give them an advantage.

Intended to give diners more choices in one space, Taco Bell's sales vastly outperformed those of Pizza Hut, making the space a liability that quickly led to closures.

Yum! Brands never went on record with a rationale for breaking up the hybrids, but it quietly started closing locations, or converting them to single-chain units, in the 2010s.