Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut's Florida stores average -0.85 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.90 to -0.80), below the county baseline. Rank 1 of 7 pizza brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.85vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.90 to -0.80

0.26 vs 1.11raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

358stores in 56 counties, 1,141 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Pizza Hut is known for pan pizza and pizza. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

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By fiscal year

Relative to the county baseline, first visits of routine inspections. Open circle and * = fiscal year in progress (data as of 2026-11-09). Hover a point for n.

Most-cited violation codes

Citations per 100 routine inspections, Pizza Hut vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 1,141). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Pizza Hut	Florida	Ratio
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	76.4	39.9	1.92x
23	Non-food contact surfaces clean	43.0	23.6	1.82x
16	Dishwashing facilities designed, constructed, operated	30.8	17.0	1.81x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	23.2	43.6	0.53x
29	Plumbing installed and maintained	20.5	16.9	1.21x

Outcomes

6.5% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.26% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

100%of 345 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

No Pizza Hut store appears in DBPR's weekly closure extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06).

Other pizza brands

Ranked pizza brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	Pizza Hut	-0.85	-0.90 to -0.80	358
2	Domino's	-0.74	-0.78 to -0.70	489
3	Papa John's	-0.65	-0.71 to -0.58	297
4	Marco's Pizza	-0.52	-0.61 to -0.42	164
5	Little Caesars	-0.48	-0.55 to -0.40	235
6	Hungry Howie's	-0.47	-0.55 to -0.40	188
7	Jet's Pizza	-0.47	-0.64 to -0.29	40

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Pizza Hut elsewhere

Pizza Hut franchise costs and FDD: FranchiseLens Where Pizza Hut locates: PlazaLens

Store-level matching: a store counts for Pizza Hut when its DBPR business name matches the reviewed aliases in InspectLens's brand list. Co-branded units (for example KFC with Taco Bell) are not counted for either brand.