article_snippet: Hunt Brothers Pizza provides gas stations and convenience stores with ingredients and start up equipment but doesn't charge franchise fees.
article_snippet: As a result Hunt Brothers Pizza now boasts more U.S. sites than either Domino's or Pizza Hut, with 7,300 locations in 28 states.
article_snippet: It beats Pizza Hut and Domino,' said 23-year-old Brittany Bunch, who buys Hunt Brothers about once a week during breaks from her job at a water damage company.
article_snippet: Hunt Brothers, which is privately owned, fine-tuned this approach starting in the early 1990s when four brothers who'd worked separately in the restaurant industry joined forces to sell pizzas to convenience stores.
article_snippet: Hunt Brothers had 750 locations by 1994, said Solsvig. '
article_snippet: The convenience store model is different from a free-standing restaurant, and a Hunt Brothers outlet is likely to bring in far less than the more than $700,000 an average Domino's makes a year, said Darren Tristano, a restaurant industry analyst with Technomic.
article_snippet: Pit stop: In a typical Hunt Brothers arrangement, outlets pay about $10,000 for an oven, freezer, display case and other equipment
article_snippet: - Hunt Brothers then just pay the Nashville, Tennessee-based company for the pizza ingredients .
article_snippet: Fred England, a food vendor at a furniture factory about 30 miles east of Andersonville, added a Hunt Brothers to his lunch counter about a year ago to keep his customers from looking elsewhere for his customers pizza fix. '
article_snippet: The 35-year-old Andersonville resident said The 35-year-old Andersonville resident buys Hunt Brothers about twice a week. '
highlights_snippet: Hunt Brothers Pizza provides gas stations and convenience stores with ingredients and start up equipment but doesn't charge franchise fees .
  
highlights_snippet: Hunt Brothers Pizza currently has 7,300 locations in 28 states .
  