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A Pizza Hut restaurant has incurred the wrath of school officials in Kansas City, Mo., for refusing to deliver a takeout order to a high school in a neighborhood that the company considers too dangerous for its drivers.

Dorothy Shepherd, the principal of the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, complained to the school board after Pizza Hut last month spurned her attempt to order food for a student luncheon.

A spokesman for the Dallas-based chain said the decision was made locally not to deliver to the school because it is located in a high-crime area and is too far from the restaurant...