Pizza fun facts

PIZZA HUT FOOTBALL GAME FACTS

Pizza Hut anticipates preparing almost two million pizzas during the hours leading up to the Super Bowl.

Nearly 50% of the Pizza Hut deliveries and carry-outs occur in the two hours prior to kick off and during the first hour of the Super Bowl.

Pepperoni is the most requested topping followed by Italian sausage and extra cheese.

Breadsticks are the most popular side order followed by wings and cinnamon sticks.

Pan Pizza is the most requested followed by  Hand-Tossed Style Pizza

Domino's delivered 400 million pizzas last year... that's a pizza (and a slice) for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Pizza is a $30 billion per year industry.¹

The World's Fastest Pizza Maker makes 14 pizzas in 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

Domino's opened its 7,000 store worldwide on April 10, 2001 in Brooklyn, New York

Domino's drivers cover 9 million miles each week in the U.S. alone. (That's 37.5 round trips to the moon every week!)

In 2004, Super Bowl Sunday was the busiest day of the year. Domino's sold close to 1.2 million pizzas, which is about 42 percent more pizzas compared to a normal Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday ranks among the top five days for pizza deliveries annually, up there with Thanksgiving Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve and Halloween.

Ever wonder about what the three dots stand for in the Domino's Pizza logo? They represent the first three Domino's Pizza stores. The plan was to add a dot for every new store, however, with Domino's current store count over 7,000, that would have been quite impossible to continue.

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Super Bowl Take-out Facts: Pizza's Number One
01-23-2006

Super Bowl Takeout and Delivery Fact Sheet:

* According to National Restaurant Association research, roughly one out of seven (15 percent) Americans order takeout or delivery food from a restaurant for a Super Bowl gathering at their house or someone else's house. For younger adults (ages 18-34) who watch the Super Bowl * this year held on Sunday, February 5 * that figure rises to 22 percent.

* Of those who ordered takeout or delivery, 58 percent ordered pizza, 50 percent ordered chicken wings, and 20 percent ordered subs or sandwiches.

* Those living in larger households (three or more members) were more likely than others to order takeout or delivery on Super Bowl Sunday, as were those living in a metropolitan area, and those living in the Northeast.

* In addition, approximately one in 20 Americans (4 percent) watch the big game at a restaurant or a bar.

October is National Pizza Month, (US). It was first so designated in 1987 and continues to be the traditional time for celebration of one of America's most important and popular food industries.

Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza EACH DAY, or about 350 slices per second.

Pizza is a $41+ BILLION per year industry. There are approximately 69,000 pizzerias in the United States. Approximately 3.5 BILLION pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year. (Source: Blumenfeld and Associates)

Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants. (Source: Food Industry News.)

Pizza accounts for more that 10% of all foodservice sales. (Source: Food Industry News.)

93% of Americans eat AT LEAST one pizza per month. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

66.66% of Americans order pizza for a casual evening with friends. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

Each man, woman and child in America eats and average of 46 slices, (23 pounds), of pizza per year. (Source: Packaged Facts, New York.)

Italian food ranks as the most popular ethnic food in America. (Source: National Restaurant Association.)

According to a recent Gallop Poll, children between the ages of 3 and 11 prefer PIZZA over all other food groups for lunch and dinner.

A study done by a U.S. Department of Agriculture statistician and home economist found that in a three-day survey period, 42% of children between the ages of 6 and 11 has eaten pizza. (Source: Smithsonian Magazine.)

94% of the population of the U.S. eats pizza. (Source: Parade Magazine.)

Favorite Pizza Toppings in the United States

Pepperoni is by far America's favorite topping, (36% of all pizza orders). Approximately 251,770,000 pounds of pepperoni are consumed on pizzas annually. Other popular pizza toppings are mushrooms, extra cheese, sausage, green pepper and onions.

Gourmet toppings are gaining ground in some areas of the country such as chicken, oysters, crayfish, dandelions, sprouts, eggplant, Cajun shrimp, artichoke hearts and tuna. More recent trends include game meats such as venison, duck and Canadian bacon.

Mozzarella cheese represents 30% of total cheese output. Production of Italian cheeses such as mozzarella, provolone, ricotta, parmesan and Romano by U.S. cheese makers more than doubled between 1980 and 1992, from 688.6 MILLION pounds per year to nearly 2 BILLION pounds per year. (Source: Cheese Market News.)

Manufacturers' sales of pizza cheese should top $44 BILLION by 2006. U.S. per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese was 7.93 pounds in 1994 and is predicted to reach 12.51 pounds by 2005. (Source: Business Trend Analysts, BTA)

62% of Americans prefer meat toppings on their pizza, while 38% prefer vegetarian toppings. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetarian toppings on their pizza. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

Barbeque pizza emerged as one of the more popular pizza variations in a 1994 study by the National Restaurant Association. Nearly 33% of menus offered some form of this dish. Other popular variations were Mexican pizza, white pizza, five-cheese combos, non-cheese pies and traditional Italian pizzas such as Margherita, Florentine and new potato pizzas. (Source: National Restaurant Assocation)