线上课第9：Task3 听录音，填空。 In 1958, young college students, brothers Frank and Dan Carney, opened the first Pizza Hut restaurant in Wichita, Kansas，USA with US $600. The Carney brothers found that there was a great potential in franchises, so they to use that as a foundation for their business. A year later, the first Pizza Hut franchises store . In 1977， Pizza Hut became a subsidiary of Pepsi Co. Inc. Through mergers and acquisitions，as well as organic growth，Pizza Hut has secured a prominent position in the . Today，franchisees and joint venture partnership account for more than half of the Pizza Hut system's total units. Following the opening of the first international restaurant in Canada in 1968，Pizza Hut restaurants quickly appeared in Mexico，South America， ，Europe，the Far East and Africa. The red roof was introduced as the company which was soon to become world famous as an easily recognized guarantee of crispy pizza，delicious pasta and friendly in a pleasant atmosphere. Pizza Hut, a division of Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is now the world's pizza restaurant company with more than 8,000 units in the united States and more than4,000 units in over 90 countries and territories. The company is the recognized in the $25 billion pizza category worldwide. It has more than 250,000 employees worldwide，providing more than 1.7 million pizzas to more than 4 million each day.