DAN AND FRANK CARNEY
(1931–; 1938– ) cofounders of Pizza Hut (1958)
“Frank and Dan Carney were helping out one day in their dad’s grocery store in Wichita, Kan. when the landlady dropped by complaining about her other tenant, a seedy tavern next door. She’d just read in the Saturday Evening Post about a pizza parlor in New York City. ‘Now, you two boys,’ she suggested to the college students, ‘could open up a nice respectable pizza place right here next to your dad’s grocery.’ ” And so, the $167 million (sales) Pizza Hut chain was born.” —“A Pizza a Day” (May 15, 1975)