Pie In The Sky? Now You Can Charge Your Pizza

Hungry for pizza but short of cash and stuck at home? Pizza Hut is going to let you charge it.

The nation’s biggest pizza chain said Wednesday it will expand its program of accepting most major credit cards to all company-owned outlets by mid-September, including using cards to pay for home deliveries.

Dallas-based Pizza Hut said it is the first pizza chain that will take credit cards nationally. It is investing $3 million in phone lines and card verification equipment.

Its biggest rival, Domino’s Pizza, has similar capabilities in more than a third of its company-owned stores and hopes to take cards at all the company-held outlets by the end of next year.

Both chains say taking credit cards makes it more convenient for customers while making drivers a less tempting target for robbery.