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Daily Bread for 6.21.26: The Rise and Fall of Pizza Hut

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Good morning.

Father’s Day (and the first day of summer) in Whitewater will be cloudy with afternoon showers and a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:37 for 15 hours 21 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 46.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1942, a Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the mainland United States.

The Rise and Fall of Pizza Hut:

Pizza Hut once dominated American pizza. Now its U.S. business is being sold for $1.7 billion by parent company Yum! Brands to a private equity company called LongRange Capital. Its mainland Chinese operations are being sold to the spinoff Yum China Holdings for $1.2 billion. WSJ explains the challenges that led one of America’s most iconic restaurant chains to this moment.

Tastes change.

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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, Outcome-Driven Argumentation, and a New Ethics Ordinance.

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