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Pizza Fun Facts

• The average pizzeria uses roughly 55 pizza boxes per day.
• We consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year
• Pizzerias are expected to purchase more than $4 billion worth of cheese annually by the year 2010
• 36 percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping pepperoni
• 94 percent of Americans eat pizza regularly
• 62% of Americans prefer meat toppings while 38% prefer vegetables
• Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on their pizza
• Pizza Deliverers claim women are better tippers
• During TV news, pizza is most often ordered during the weather
• Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants
• The world's fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds
• 36% of people consider pizza the perfect breakfast
• Eating pizza once a week can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer
• The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia
• Most expensive pizza created was made by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla who created a $2,745.00 priced Valentine pizza which included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, medallions of venison, edible gold, lobster marinated in the finest cognac and champagne-soaked caviar
• Mozzarella cheese accounts for nearly 80 percent of Italian cheese production in the United States.
• The most popular pizza size in the U.S. today is 14 inches in diameter.
• About 3 billion pizzas are sold annually in the U.S.