WingStreet is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken. It is owned by Yum! Brands

Yum! Brands

Yum! Brands, Inc. or Yum! is a United States-based Fortune 500 corporation. Yum! operates or licenses Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet restaurants worldwide....

, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread....

. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread....

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History

Pizza Hut franchises began offering buffalo chicken wings in 1995. In 2003, Yum! launched WingStreet

WingStreet

WingStreet is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken. It is owned by Yum! Brands, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut.-History:Pizza Hut...

 as a hybrid combo unit with an existing Pizza Hut franchise. In 2007, Pizza Hut/WingStreet opened their 1,000th restaurant. In 2007 and 2008, a thousand WingStreet stores a year were opened. On October 19, 2009, Company president Scott Bergren publicize WingStreet's national launch.The chain predicted aggressive growth, adding more than 4,000 locations by 2010.

Wings

WingStreet restaurants sell breaded and traditional buffalo wings

Buffalo wings

A Buffalo wing, hot wing or wing is a chicken wing section that is traditionally fried unbreaded and then coated in sauce...

 for take-out and delivery. The chain has eight sauces in two heat ratings: Spicy and the tamer Saucy variety. Their sauces are: Lemon Pepper, Spicy BBQ, Honey BBQ, Garlic Parmesan, Spicy Asian, and Mild. They also have sauce-free wings called Naked wings. WingStreet now has three different categories of Buffalo sauce: Buffalo Mild, Buffalo Medium, and Buffalo Burning Hot.

WingStreet offers three styles of wings: Bone-In, Bone-Out, and Traditional. Both the Bone-In and Bone-Out wings are breaded while the Traditional are not and do not have the bones removed.

In addition to wings the WingStreet brand usually includes extras such as fried cheese sticks, chicken tenders, apple pie

Apple pie

An apple pie is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples. It is sometimes served with whipped cream or ice cream on top...

s, and WingStreet Potato Wedges. In addition, there are additional items based upon location: curly fries, jalapeno poppers and onion rings

Onion rings

Onion rings are a form of fast food commonly found in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and some parts of Asia. They generally consist of a cross-sectional "ring" of onion dipped in batter or breading and then deep fried; a variant is made with onion paste...

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Awards and recognition

Pizza Hut/WingStreet wings have won several awards:

• Best Medium Traditional Wing Sauce (National Buffalo Wing Festival 2006, 2008, 2009)
• Best Hot Traditional Wing Sauce (National Buffalo Wing Festival 2007)
• Best Medium Sauce AND Best BBQ Sauce (Atlanta Wing Festival 2007)
• Best Take-Out Wings with Medium Sauce (Denver Post 2007)

External links

• Official website