Carney Frank (Frank Carney)

Carney Frank (Frank Carney)

Biography

2020: Death from COVID-19

In the morning on December 2, 2020 at the age of 82 years the entrepreneur and the cofounder of Pizza Hut Frank Carney died. A cause of death - complications against the background of a disease of a coronavirus.

According to Fox News, Frank Carney suffering from Alzheimer's disease died from pneumonia.

Influence of an entrepreneurship of Frank Carney and his solution to open the first Pizza Hut together with the brother Dan in 1958 can feel any who appreciates cult red roofs of a brand and delicious pizza, - the representative of Pizza Hut told. - Its heritage will live in the big and small cities through the whole country and worldwide, at restaurants which for decades integrated people and served as the evidence of its vision of a brand and its success in quality of the business leader. We express our deepest condolences to Carney's family.

Carney and his elder brother Dan began to be engaged in pizza in 1958 when both studied at the State university of Wichita. For $600 provided to them by their mother two brothers opened the first pizzeria of Pizza Hut. Such name, according to the official statement of Pizza Hut, received an institution because "on their sign there was a place only for eight letters".

Developing the business, Carney's brothers finally sold Pizza Hut of PepsiCo company for $300 million in 1977 though later Dan claimed that his younger brother probably "lost the most part of what he made in Pizza Hut", being engaged in other entrepreneurial projects, including the real estate, oil, gas, automotive industry and many other things.

When he decided that he is going to make something, he just went to it, - Dan noted.

Nevertheless, Dan claimed that Frank Carney was not "depressed", and rather "is aggressive-minded to create something new". The entrepreneurial spirit of Carney, admittedly, was one of lines of which he most of all was proud.

I am the most successful guy in the world, - Carney told the Wichita Eagle edition about the work once.[1]

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