This really hasn’t got any thing to do with the hotel biz, but this is too classic to pass up. Pizza Hut has reportedly agreed to pay 2.5 million dollars to Russia for permission to paint a giant Pizza Hut logo on the side of the spacecraft. I mean, come on, who the hell is their market base for this one? Martians? Read the full story. Here is a snippet:

He refused to name the exact price. Company officials had wanted to use lasers to shine a giant logo on to the surface of the moon, but they started looking for an alternative promotional idea when they learnt that the image would have to be as big as Texas to be seen by earthlings more than 380,000 kilometers (238,000 miles) away.