WingStreet® by Pizza Hut® Wishes America a "Flappy" National Chicken Wing Day

WingStreet will recognize the "holiday" with 60 cent traditional and boneless wings on 7/29; Additional "Flappy Hour" celebration from 7-2-9 (7-9 p.m. EST) on 7/29

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Jul 29, 2015, 06:00 ET

PLANO, Texas, July 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Sweet. Tangy. Spicy. Saucy. They are all ways to describe chicken wings, but on July 29 -- affectionately recognized as "National Chicken Wing Day" – another word will be used to describe wings at WingStreet by Pizza Hut: cheap!

This year on National Chicken Wing Day, WingStreet by Pizza Hut will be serving up boneless, breaded and traditional wings for 60 cents each, available via dine-in, carryout or delivery (minimum purchase requirements for delivery varies by location). WingStreet, which serves more wings per year than any other wing company in the country, has eight available sauces for its wings: honey BBQ, spicy BBQ, buffalo mild, buffalo medium, buffalo burnin' hot, honey Sriracha, sweet chili, and garlic parmesan.

In addition, wing lovers looking to score even more WingStreet wings can join a digital "Flappy Hour" from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST on July 29. Follow the @WingStreet Twitter handle during this time for fun chicken wing trivia and for the chance to be randomly selected to win a gift card to put towards additional wing purchases.

"We believe that far and away we deliver the best chicken wings in the business," said Jared Drinkwater, vice president of marketing, Pizza Hut. "We felt it was a great opportunity to bring a little more excitement to National Chicken Wing Day by offering a great deal on all of our wings and a special opportunity for all our social media fans on Twitter."

The 60 cent wing deal will be available for dine-in, carryout or delivery. To order now, visit www.wingstreet.com or www.pizzahut.com.

About Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), delivers more pizza, pasta and wings than any other restaurant in the world. The company began 57 years ago in Wichita, Kansas, when two brothers borrowed $600 from their mom to start a pizzeria.

What started out small has become the biggest pizza company in the world and today operates more than 15,600 restaurants in more than 90 countries serving innovative pizzas, traditional favorites like the signature Pan Pizza, and much more. Pizza Hut also is the proprietor of the BOOK IT!® Program, which is a long-standing children's literacy program used in more than 630,000 classrooms nationwide. For more information, visit www.pizzahut.com. Follow Pizza Hut on Facebook (www.facebook.com/PizzaHut), Twitter (www.twitter.com/pizzahut) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/pizzahut).

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