- Approximately three billion pizzas are sold in the United States every year, plus an additional one billion frozen pizzas.
- Pizza is a $30 billion industry in the United States.
- Ninety-Four percent of Americans eat pizza regularly
- Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetarian toppings on their pizza.
- About 36 percent of all pizzas contain pepperoni, making it the most popular topping in the United States.
- The first known pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria, opened in Naples, Italy, in 1738.
- More pizza is consumed during the week of the Super Bowl than any other time of the year.
- On average, each person in the United States eats around 23 pounds of pizza every year.
- The first pizzeria in the United States was opened by Gennaro Lombardi in 1895 in New York City.
- Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350 slices per second.