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Pizza Hut continues to expand in Spain and ends 2021 with its first opening in Santiago de Compostela

With this opening, the emblematic American brand inaugurates its first establishment in the province of A Coruña and consolidates its presence in Galicia, where it already has 4 stores and generates around 70 jobs.

Madrid, 30 December 2022 - Pizza Hut continues to drive its expansion in Spain and ends the year with its first opening in the town of Santiago de Compostela in A Coruña. In this way, the emblematic American brand thus inaugurates its first shop in the province and consolidates its presence in Galicia, where with this new establishment it has 4 in the autonomous community.

The new establishment, located at Calle Rúa de Senra nº 7, has 210m² of premises and will generate around 14 new jobs in the area, in addition to the more than 1,400 jobs that the brand has already created in the country, 71 of them in Galicia. Thus, from now on, the approximately 95,000 residents of the city will be able to enjoy the authentic American flavour through such innovative and iconic products as the Masa Pan and the Rolling Pizza.

In Spain, Pizza Hut, which is a brand operated by the multi-brand group Food Delivery Brands, has a total of 71 establishments in almost all the Autonomous Communities. Looking ahead to 2022, the brand has a strategic expansion plan that aims, among others, to consolidate its presence in cities with a large number of tourists, such as Santiago de Compostela, Madrid and Barcelona.

Rafael Molinero, franchisee of the new Pizza Hut shop in Santiago de Compostela, highlights that "it is exciting for me, after 2 years linked to Food Delivery Brands, to embark on this new stage and become the franchisee of the first Pizza Hut shop in Santiago de Compostela, thus contributing to the brand's expansion plan in the country and bringing the authentic American flavour of our products to the local residents" .

Pizza Hut is a brand that has been around for more than 60 years and today has become the world's leading pizza brand with more than 18,700 shops in 113 markets. A brand that has always been characterised by its originality and its capacity for innovation, even managing to be the first brand to take pizzas into space, and which now lands for the first time in Santiago de Compostela.