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- The world’s first pizzeria, known as Antica Pizzeria Port’
Alba, opened in Naples in 1830 and is still in business today.
- The first U.S. pizzeria opened at 53 1/1 Spring Street in New York
City in 1895 by Gennaro Lombardi.
- The Greeks were the first to use bread as a plate, topping their plankuntos
(bread) with various topping and baking.
- The average family eats pizza at home approximately 30 times per year!
- 350 million tons of frozen pizza is sold every year, and 5.1 billion
dollars of sales come from frozen and fresh pizzas every year!
- A 23 year old investor, Thomas Monaghan, borrowed $500 to buy and
open Domino’s first location in Detroit in 1960.
- The snow white mozzarella originally used for pizza in Italy is made
from milk of water buffalo.
- Americans eat an average of 46 slices of pizza a year, or 23 pounds
of pizza!
- A recent Gallup poll showed that kids between the ages of 3-11 years,
prefer pizza to all other meal options for lunch and dinner.
- Pizza has played a major role in television and the movies, starring
in such films as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Nightmare On
Elm Street and Toy Story.
- National Pizza Month began in 1987, and is the month of October.
- Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day, or about 350
slices of pizza a second.
- 36% of all pizzas ordered are with pepperoni.
- Women order twice as many vegetable toppings as men
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- North Americans eat more pizza than anyone else in the world!
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