Pizza Hut goes record-breaking: world’s largest pizza baked in California with Airrack

Pizza Hut says it has claimed a new entry in the record books: a giant pie measuring 13,990 square feet that the chain and YouTuber Eric “Airrack” Decker built at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The stunt, which Pizza Hut says was confirmed by Guinness World Records on Jan. 18, 2023, tied a product relaunch to a high‑profile publicity moment—and the finished pizza is slated for donation to charities in Los Angeles.

The event was presented as a celebration of Pizza Hut’s return of the Big New Yorker, a menu item last widely available in the 1990s, and as a milestone for Decker’s online audience. Pizza Hut’s announcement frames the attempt as both a marketing move and a philanthropic effort: after the build and verification, the company said the pizza would be distributed to local organizations.

Scale and ingredients

The assembled pizza was constructed on-site at the convention center and required industrial quantities of dough, sauce and toppings. Pizza Hut’s description of the build highlights the logistics behind such a large single pie.

• Dough: about 13,653 pounds
• Sauce: approximately 4,948 pounds of sweet marinara
• Cheese: more than 8,800 pounds
• Pepperoni: roughly 630,496 slices

Those figures underscore the coordination needed to bake and assemble a pizza of that footprint—temperature control, ingredient staging and a workforce to shape and top the surface before the final verification.

Why it matters now

For readers, the story combines three timely elements: a record‑setting food build, a brand reviving a nostalgic menu item, and a content‑creator partnership tied to a social‑media milestone. Pizza Hut framed the project as a response to customer demand for the Big New Yorker, while Decker told the company he wanted to reward his viewers after reaching a major subscriber goal.

Pizza Hut’s announcement did not provide a detailed timeline for the charity distribution, but the company emphasized that the pizza would be donated locally in Los Angeles. The decision to donate rather than sell the record pie helped position the stunt as community‑oriented as well as promotional.

Whether you follow food trends, brand marketing or online creator culture, the episode underlines how legacy chains and digital stars increasingly collaborate on spectacles designed to attract attention across platforms—and, in this case, to deliver a large helping of pizza to the community.