Fun Facts

According to an American Dairy Association random sampling survey, pizza is America's fourth most craved food, behind cheese, chocolate and ice cream.

Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year.

There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States

Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second

Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices (23 pounds) of pizza a year.

Pizza is a $30 billion per year industry

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.

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

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!)

93% of Americans eat AT LEAST one pizza per month.

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. (interesting….)

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