Pizza Hut Adds Plant-Based Meat to the Menu, Marking a First for National Pizza Chains

The partnership with Beyond comes as fast food rapidly embraces faux meat

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Pizza Hut announced today it has added two Beyond Meat items to its menu, becoming the first national pizza chain to jump on the plant-based protein trend at locations across the country.

Beyond’s rival, Impossible Foods, had a three-market test with Little Caesars restaurants in 2019 (the product sold out before the two-month trial ended), and Pizza Hut previously worked with Kellogg-owned brand Incogmeato for some local sampling of faux meat pizza toppings.

Pizza Hut follows in the footsteps of fast food heavyweights like the burger behemoths (Burger

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