Pizza Hut Closing 500 Restaurants

Pizza Hut is shutting the hut on hundreds of restaurants.

Yum! The parent company of Pizza Hut announced they're closing about 500 under-performing dine-in locations as they refocus on carry-out and delivery.

Today.com reports:

The change will affect about 500 locations so Pizza Hut expects that number may drop to 7,000 in the next 24 months as the company closes underperforming restaurants.

The company has not released which locations will close. There are nearly 7,500 Pizza Huts in the U.S., with over 6,000 dine-in restaurants, 14 in central New York.