Pizza Hut sends beer, too
Phoenix location nation’s first to offer new service
You can now have beer delivered with your pizza through Pizza Hut’s new delivery program that debuted in the Phoenix area Tuesday.
You can now have pizza and beer delivered through Pizza Hut’s new delivery program that debuted in the Phoenix area Tuesday.
The downtown Pizza Hut location at First and East Pierce streets is the first in the nation to launch the beer-delivery service.
The Yum! Brands pizza chain also plans to add wine to the Phoenix location in January and expects to expand the libations delivery service to other metro areas in 2018.
Yum! Brands also owns the restaurant chains Taco Bell and KFC.
“Me and the rest of the team, we’re pretty excited for something new and different,” said Aaron Beasley, a manager at the downtown Phoenix Pizza Hut. “We are the first ones starting it and we got to make it rock.”
Six-packs of Bud Light, Budweiser, Shock Top and Kilt Lifter, all Anheuser Busch Inbev products, are the first beers available for $10.99 each, Beasley said. Bud Light and Budweiser cost $3 a bottle, and Shock Top and Kilt Lifter, an Arizona craft brew, are $3.50.
Delivery workers will check customers’ IDs during deliveries in the same way people would be ID’d at bars. All de-
“It’s an opportunity to make money for our company and to get people cold beer and good, delicious pizza.” Aaron Beasley Manager, Downtown Phoenix Pizza Hut
livery drivers will be 21 or older, and orders will comply with Arizona liquor laws, said Matt Simpson, a marketing manager for Pizza Hut.
Beer deliveries come at no additional cost, Beasley said, with pizza deliveries usually costing between $2 to $3 depending on the delivery location. But the beer will be transported in a special cooler to keep it at a crisp serving temperature.
The downtown Phoenix Pizza Hut delivers from 27th Avenue to 24th Street and north to Interstate 10 and south to Interstate 17, said Simpson on Tuesday.
Pizza Hut chose to begin the pilot at this location because Phoenix’s demographics mirror the rest of the nation and the downtown location was already licensed to sell liquor.
“We’re not going after a certain age group,” Simpson said. “Just pizza and beer lovers 21 and older.”
Simpson said that although Pizza Hut plans to quickly expand beer deliveries nationwide next year, it will depend on each state’s liquor laws.
“It’s definitely still early and we haven’t gotten any beer deliveries yet, but I’m sure it will pick up this evening and into the night,” Beasley said. “It’s an opportunity to make money for our company and to get people cold beer and good, delicious pizza.”