The dream is real (Picture: Pizza Hut)

When Year 9 students at Clearview Middle School in New Jersey were asked to come up with new food products as part of a statistics project, they thought big.

They brainstormed a few ideas and the one that proved most popular in the focus groups was the bacon and mac ‘n’ cheese stuffed pretzel crust pizza. Because obviously.

As part of their project, the students had to write to real food companies explaining their idea and asking for feedback.

Allyson Sooy, Sean Flannery and Nick Gabriele chose to write to Pizza Hut about their epic pizza concept.


They drew this detailed diagram:

Click to enlarge (Picture: Pizza Hut)

Pizza Hut were understandably impressed with the sales pitch – ‘You love mac ‘n’ cheese, you love bacon, then you would love this pizza!’



They decided to write back.

Click to enlarge (Picture: Pizza Hut)

The letter, which the trio read aloud to the class, finished with the intriguing invitation to ‘take a quick trip down with your class to the multipurpose room.’

Allyson, Sean and Nick read their letter to the class (Picture: Pizza Hut)

Pizza Hut had decided to make their pizza dreams a reality.

Meet the bacon and mac ‘n’ cheese stuffed pretzel crust pizza – with a choice of pepperoni or margherita topping.

Two words: Pretzel crust (Picture: Pizza Hut)

Pizza Hut’s head of product development Barbie King told ABC News how she and her team waited in the multipurpose room to surprise the students with their creation.

She said the children’s project ‘really spoke to us, so we wanted to take their idea and run with it.’

Class teacher Anne Paoletti described the surprise as ‘spectacular’. She said: ‘The students were thrilled that their idea was heard.’

We’ve just got one question – this is going to be added to the Pizza Hut menu, right?

Watch the kids get an awesome surprise here:

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