The brothers were born and raised Wichita, Kansas, where they live today. In June of 1958, when Dan was 27 and Frank was 20, they borrowed about $600 from their mother and opened "B & B's" a beer and pizza establishment designed to appeal to the local college community. Two years later they franchised the first Pizza Hut in Topeka. They changed the concept of the franchise to a quality family restaurant specializing in pizza and proceeded to expand the franchise. By 1977 when they sold the franchise to Pepsico for an estimated $310 million, Pizza Hut had become the world's largest pizza chain with annual sales exceeding the billion dollar mark.