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Date Posted: 07:50:34 02/01/04 Sun
Ordering Pizza Today? Beware!
If pizza from your favorite pizzeria is on your Super Bowl party menu, beware: Super Bowl Sunday is the busiest pizza day of the year. More pizza will be sold today than on any other day the entire year. So place your order early and be prepared to wait.
As USA Today puts it, "Pizza has become to Super Bowl Sunday what eggs are to Easter. Or candy canes to Christmas."
Pizza may be fattening and not a staple of any nutritious diet known to man, but it's perfect for those days when we're too busy to cook or have too many people to feed. It's cheap, easy to serve, and perfect for large groups.
And that is precisely why the top 5 pizza sales days are Super Bowl Sunday, New Year's Eve, Halloween, the night before Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day.
"There are situations socially tied to food categories," Jennifer Aaker, a consumer psychologist and marketing professor at Stanford University, told USA Today. "Just as you might go on an airplane and order a tomato juice, you watch the Super Bowl and eat pizza." Or eat pizza while passing out candy to trick-or-treaters. Or eat pizza when you're too tired to cook after ringing in the New Year. Or eat pizza while you're getting ready to cook the Thanksgiving feast.
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.
How to eat pizza guilt-free, even if you're on the Atkins diet: Eat a slice or two--not the entire pie.
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