Sunday, February 04, 2007

Pizza anyone?

The top 5 pizza sales days are:

1. Super Bowl Sunday
2. New Year's Eve
3. Halloween
4. The night before Thanksgiving
5. New Year's Day

Fun facts to know and tell about pizza, according to FranchiseHelp and USA Today:

* 94 percent of Americans eat pizza regularly.
* 93 percent of Americans have eaten pizza in the last month.
* Pizza is America's fourth most-craved food, behind cheese, chocolate and ice cream.
* Americans consume over 100 acres of pizza a DAY, about 350 slices per second. And that's on a regular day--not Super Bowl Sunday or Halloween!
* Pizza accounts for more than 10 percent of all food service sales.
* Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the United States each year.
* On Super Bowl Sunday, pizza delivery drivers can expect $2 tips to sometimes soar as high as $20.
* Domino's delivery drivers will log about 4 million miles on Super Bowl Sunday.
* Delivery sales of pizza spike the most during close Super Bowl games.
* There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States. These pizzerias represent 17 percent of all restaurants.
* Frozen pizzas that could be purchased in grocery stores were first introduced in the United States in 1957 and soon became the most popular of all frozen food.

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