Pizza Hut Is Giving Out 1 Million Free Pizzas to Readers in Honor of Book It! Program’s 40th Anniversary

Mar. 15, 2025

Pizza Hut is handing out one million free pizzas.Photo: Pizza Hut

Bookworms are getting a cheesy treat.

Pizza Hutis giving away one million free personal pan pizzas in honor of the40th anniversary of its Book It! program: a reading initiative for students. Whether you are in or out of school, pizza lovers of all ages can score the freebie.

Pizza Hut started Book It! program back in 1984 and estimates that more than 1.5 billion pizzas have been given to readers through its initiatives. In the last 11 years alone, the pizza chain has given away 56 million personal pan pizzas, per a press release.

Other than the pizza offerings, the program has worked to enhance the reading opportunities for students across the country, such as offering discounted or free books to educators in Title 1 schools.

Taco Bell has other cheesy goodies right now. TheBig Cheez-It menu items are backat the fast food chain.

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Taco Bell and Cheez-It are collaboratingagain with an XL cracker (16 times the cracker’s usual size!) after their limited run in June, which included a Crunchwrap Supreme and Tostada.

Taco Bell Big Cheez-It menu items.Taco Bell

Taco Bell

As of Sept. 20, the Big Cheez-It will be available to purchase solo for $1 so customers can “craft their own cheesy innovations at home,” per apress release.

Plus, the Big Cheez-It Crunchwrap Supreme got a makeover since it was last available. The menu item has the usual Crunchwrap ingredients — beef, nacho cheese sauce, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream — but now has two Cheez-Its in the middle instead of just one. The item, which is wrapped in a grilled flour tortilla, costs $5.50.

The Big Cheez-It Tostada uses the jumbo cracker instead of a crispy tostada. The Cheez-It is then topped with beef, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream and goes for $3.

source: people.com