Pizza Hut Japan deal

Pizza Hut Japan turned a television verdict into a 13-day sale within hours: after TBS aired its April 11 judging special, the chain said its “Goku Niku Gochiso 4” with cheese-roll crust would be 50 percent off for takeout from April 11 through April 23. The trigger was a prime-time show called “Job Tune,” where “super first-class” pizza chefs score chain-restaurant menu items on whether the taste matches the price. Pizza Hut brought 10 items onto the April 11, 2026 episode, its first appearance on the program in about 3 and a half years. Pizza Hut said 7 of those 10 items passed, and 2 got unanimous approval: its “Shin Tokuuma Bulgogi” pizza and its cheese-roll crust. The company’s release also said its top 3 “meat pizzas” all passed, which gave it an easy bundle to promote right after the broadcast. That bundle is the part getting discounted. “Goku Niku Gochiso 4” is a four-flavor pizza built from Aomori garlic beef skirt steak, black pork soy-mayo, bulgogi, and teriyaki-mayo chicken, and this offer is only for the medium size with the cheese-roll crust. The math is simple and very Japanese-chain specific: the regular listed price is 3,655 yen, and the campaign price is 1,827 yen for takeout, a savings of 1,828 yen. Delivery is excluded, the crust cannot be swapped, and Pizza Hut says quantities are limited by store. The cheese-roll crust is not a side detail in this story. Pizza Hut says the rim is filled with cheese, comes with a separate honey-maple syrup packet, and normally costs an extra 420 yen on a medium pizza, which helps explain why the company centered the promotion on that crust after it got unanimous praise. This kind of tie-in is normal for “Job Tune.” TBS built the April 11 episode around Pizza Hut’s employee-recommended top 10, and even the broadcast’s viewer giveaway was Pizza Hut gift cards worth up to 10,000 yen, so the show and the chain were clearly set up for a same-night retail push. Pizza Hut Japan had already been running aggressive April discounts before this, including its monthly “Hat Day” takeout campaign from April 8 to April 10 with medium pizzas starting at 810 yen. The new half-off meat-pizza deal lands right after that window, which lets the chain keep a discount story going almost straight through mid-April. If you are actually trying to use the deal, the useful detail is the deadline: Pizza Hut says the offer runs only until Thursday, April 23, 2026, at participating stores in Japan. It is a takeout-only promotion tied to one specific menu build that the company says was spotlighted by the April 11 television judging result.