“Countless hours were spent testing and perfecting every detail here to create our take on Detroit-Style pizza,” said David Graves, chief brand officer, Pizza Hut.

Supremo: Topped with Italian sausage, red onions, and green bell peppers.

Meaty Deluxe: Loaded with bacon, Italian sausage, and Crispy Cupped Pepperoni.

Double Cheesy: Layered with two kinds of cheese, including aged Parmesan.

The additional handcrafted Detroit-Style recipes include: That’s a whopping 80 slices of pepperoni on one pizza. It’s topped with 32 slices of regular pepperoni and another 48 slices of Crispy Cupped Pepperoni, which crisp up in the oven and provide a crunchy texture and zesty flavor. The Detroit Double Pepperoni in particular is a work of pizza art. There are four new Detroit-style recipes to choose from – each loaded up with toppings and cheese that can only be supported by that thick, rectangular signature Detroit-Style crust. To make this new menu item truly unique, Pizza Hut incorporated its own take on a few elements – such as the new, vine-ripened tomato sauce that’s only available on its Detroit-style pie – which it tested eight different versions of before finding the perfect taste.

True to the traditional Detroit-style, each pizza is rectangular-shaped, features cheese all the way to the edges to create that crispy, thick, caramelized crust, is loaded with toppings, and finished off with a tomato sauce on top to keep the crust light and airy.

After spending over a year developing and perfecting the Detroit-style pizza, trying more than 500 iterations, and testing several of those in the Midwest – the Pizza Hut menu has now been changed for the better. Over time, Pizza Hut has received requests to bring this style to menus across the country. The decision to launch Detroit-style pizza comes from the growing popularity of the pizza style across the country – that’s right, the rest of the country is catching on to the great found love of Detroit’s pizza. But since 2016, its menu penetration has surged by 150%, with most of its growth occurring last year. “It’s no longer a Midwest-only thing.”Īccording to CNBC and Datassential, which tracks food and beverage trends, Detroit-style pizza is only on 0.4% of restaurant menus. “Detroit-style pizza is the fastest-growing trend in pizza,” David Graves, chief brand officer of Pizza Hut U.S., told CNBC. The soft and airy square crust, along with the crunchy exterior and caramelized cheese that edges the pizza are what come to mind when Detroit-style pizza is mentioned. It’s the characteristic of the pizza that is most important. The key ingredient in a proper Detroit-style pizza isn’t something you eat – it’s the pan and how the pizza is baked, according to. The iconic restaurant known for innovating and launching some of America’s favorite pizzas, like Original Stuffed Crust® and Original Pan®, has recently announced – the all-new Detroit-style pizza. The restaurant chain is giving the nation what Detroiters love best. Whether you have lived in Detroit all of your life or you have just recently moved to the Motor City, if you’ve tried it, you know Detroit-style pizza lives up to its reputation. Pizza Hut is integrating Detroit into its menu nationwide.

Detroit style pizza hut