If you deliver pizzas for a living, you already know the truth: driving your own car for work costs money. Gas, oil changes, tires, repairs, insurance, car payments — it all adds up. The question is whether your employer is actually paying you back for what it costs you to do your job.
We think Pizza Hut of Southeast Kansas, Inc. isn’t paying its drivers what they’re owed — and we’ve filed a lawsuit about it.
What happened?
On July 31, 2026, a pizza delivery driver at a Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit against his employer Pizza Hut of Southeast Kansas, Inc. This lawsuit is named Sontag v. Pizza Hut of Southeast Kansas, Inc.
Mr. Sontag is asking the court to let him represent delivery drivers across the country that worked for this company. He says the company broke the law by not properly reimbursing the drivers for the cost of using their own cars on the job.
Many delivery drivers get reimbursed a flat per-delivery or per-mile reimbursement rate that does not cover what it actually costs to keep a car running. Meanwhile, the company gets to avoid the cost of owning and maintaining a fleet of their own cars, and benefit from lowball reimbursement rates. He argues that the drivers should have been reimbursed for their actual vehicle expenses, which the company didn’t track. He estimates that he and other delivery drivers incur costs above the IRS standard business mileage rate, which is currently $0.725 per mile, in part because the IRS rate does not include all vehicle expenses that delivery drivers incur, such as financing costs.
Who does this affect?
Pizza Hut of Southeast Kansas runs at least 94 Pizza Hut locations across the country, including in:
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Missouri
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Tennessee
- Texas
If you’ve delivered pizza for this company (or any pizza delivery company, anywhere in the country) this could apply to you.
If you are a delivery driver who has worked at this or any other pizza company around the country, contact our firm to find out if you might be owed unreimbursed expenses. We can explain the process you can go through to get those expenses back. Give us a call at (513) 202-0710 or fill out the form below for a free consultation.
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