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National Pizza Day: Pizza By The Numbers

Portrait Of Boy Eating Pepperoni Pizza

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I could probably eat pizza everyday! It's my favorite food and based on the following numbers I'm not alone!

  • $38 billion worth of pizzas are sold every year in the U.S.
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  • 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year.
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  • Americans eat 350 slices of pizza per second.
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  • 13% of Americans eat pizza on any given day.
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  • 93% of Americans have at least one slice of pizza per month.
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  • The average American eats more than 23 pounds of pizza a year.
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  • Roughly 17% of males between the ages of 2 and 39 eat pizza for breakfast, lunch, or dinner on any given day.
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  • 251.7 million pounds of pepperoni are consumed every year in the U.S. just from pizza.
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  • 61% of Americans prefer thin crust pizza.
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  • There's a 35% rise in pizza delivery sales on Super Bowl Sunday.
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  • There are approximately 70,000 pizzerias across the United States.
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  • Most people eat pizza on Saturday nights.

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