Pizza Fun Facts

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1. The average pizzeria uses roughly 55 pizza boxes per day
2. We consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year
3. Some popular pizza toppings in Japan are squid and Mayo Jaga (mayonaise, potato and bacon)
4. The highest-grossing single-unit independent pizzeria in the nation, Moose's Tooth Pub and Pizzeria, is in Anchorage , Alaska. Its annual sales are approximately $6 million.
5. Pizzerias are expected to purchase more than $4 billion worth of cheese annually by the year 2010
6. 36 percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping pepperoni
7. 94 percent of Americans eat pizza regularly
8. And that is precisely why the top 5 pizza sales days are:
9. Super Bowl Sunday, New Year's Eve, Halloween, The night before Thanksgiving, & New Year's Day
10. 93 percent of Americans have eaten pizza in the last month
11. Pizza accounts for more than 10 percent of all food service sales
12. On Super Bowl Sunday, pizza delivery drivers can expect $2 tips to sometimes soar as high as $20
13. Domino's delivery drivers will log about 4 million miles on Super Bowl Sunday
14. Delivery sales of pizza spike the most during close Super Bowl games
15. Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350 slices per second.
16. There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
17. Each person in America eats about 46 pizza slices a year.
18. Popular gourmet toppings are chicken, oysters, crayfish, dandelions, sprouts, eggplant, cajun shrimp, artichoke hearts, and tuna.
19. October is the US national pizza month.
20. Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year.
21. Kids ages 3 to 11 prefer pizza over all other food groups for lunch and dinner.
22. Pizza.comes from the latin root word Picea which means the blackening of crust by fire.
23. The largest pizza ever made was 122 ft. 8 in. in diameter. The pizza needed 9,920 lb of flour, 198 lb of salt, 3968 lb of cheese, and 1,984 lb of tomato puree
24. Italian is the most popular type of Ethnic food in America
25. Domino's Pizza is the world leader in delivery
26. Regular thin crust is most popular in America, it is preferred by 61% of the population, 14% prefer deep-dish, and 11% prefer extra thin crust
27. 62% of Americans prefer meat toppings while 38% prefer vegetables
28. Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on their pizza
29. Pizza Hut has 12,583 stores in over 90 countries
30. Saturday night is the most popular night to eat pizza
31. Pizza Deliverers claim women are better tippers
32. During TV news, pizza is most often ordered during the weather
33. There is a Pizza Expo held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada
34. Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants
35. The world's fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds
36. 36% of people consider pizza the perfect breakfast
37. Eating pizza once a week can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer
38. The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia

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