Two closed Pizza Hut locations in the Levittown area will become quick-service fried chicken restaurants.
The closed Pizza Huts on Oxford Valley Road in the Fairless Hills section of Falls Township and the Summit Square Shopping Center in Middletown will be renovated and reopen as HNT Chicken locations, the Doylestown Intelligencer reported. It also reported the chain plans to open in Bensalem and Lower Southampton.
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Jignesh “Jay” Pandya, who operates franchise eateries and is a developer, told the newspaper the locations would be open by mid-February.
HNT Chicken opened a location right before Christmas at Philadelphia Mills, and the Philadelphia Business Journal reported the company plans to open 40 to 50 eateries in the Philadelphia region, creating as many as 1,000 jobs.
HNT Chicken opened in Rio de Janeiro in 1995 and began opening locations in other parts of Brazil in the following years. An expansion in America began last year and involved Pandya’s son. HNT stands for “hot ‘n’ tender.”
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A number of Pizza Huts operated by Pandya, including the ones becoming HNT Chicken locations, shuttered abruptly in fall 2019. In 2018, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported Franchising.com awarded Pandya the 2018 Mega Growth Leadership MVP Award after he took the title of the largest Pizza Hut franchisee in Pennsylvania.
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