Pizza Hut is a pizza restaurant , or pizza parlor . Pizza Hut also serves salads , pastas and bread sticks . This was announced as being a temporary name change to reflect the chain 's new emphasis on healthier foods On January 19 , 2009 , Pizza Hut announced that the Pasta Hut trial had ended and that the names of all stores previously converted to Pasta Hut would be converted back to Pizza Hut , following an online poll in which 81 % chose to keep the Pizza Hut name .