Pizza Hut Officially Adds Vegan Pizzas To Their Menus In The UK

As the innovations revolving around vegan food continue to get more creative and delicious, an increasing number of restaurants are incorporating the plant-based lifestyle into their menus. Fatburger recently brought in the Impossible Burger, and McDonald’s even tested out a McVegan sandwich of their own. Now, Pizza Hut is jumping into the fray with a lineup of vegan pizzas that are launching across the entire United Kingdom.

Haven’t seen many posts with this but this is the trial of the new #VeganPizzaHut pizza.. I believe it costs £1 extra with Violife’s vegan pizza cheese. It actually tastes really nice even my non vegan brother liked it (compared to the other two he tried from #firezza and #zizzis ) Not 100% like dairy cheese of course but very tasty on its own merits. I doubt you’d be able to tell it was dairy free however, since the yummy veggies are the main focus 😁. Very happy (yes, I travelled to get it.. to Bluewater and the waiter said it’s very likely they’ll continue serving it when the trial is over – the first day it came out, 40% of the customers came for it so it must be popular, already!)

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Over the past couple of months, a few locations in the UK were testing out the vegan pies, according to Metro News. After drawing praise from PETA and facing massive demand once the news broke, the global pizza giant decided to give the country what it wanted and launched its vegan pizzas at all 262 locations nationwide. Grubstreet reports that it does come at an upcharge of one Euro, so be prepared for that extra cost.

VEGANS. You asked. We listened.
Our Vegan Cheese is here to stay in ALL HUTS NATIONWIDE! 😋🌿🧀 pic.twitter.com/0UzJYLvvsr

— Pizza Hut UK (@pizzahutuk) November 27, 2017

To make their plant-based pizzas possible, Pizza Hut has been working with Violife, a Greek producer of pseudo cheeses that’s starting to make an impact in the United States as well. Here, 107 different locations across the nation either use Violife for their own pizzas or sell it in their stores.

This is definitely not the first vegan pizza option to be made available at a major fast food player, as Domino’s offers vegan cheese in Israel and several smaller chains, like Blaze Pizza, do the same. However, Pizza Hut UK’s incorporation of vegan pizzas is definitely a telling sign of the growing acceptance of plant-based fare as it becomes even more mainstream.