Pizza Fun --Trivia & Stats

Pizza Statistics

• Pizza is one of the most popular foods in your grocers' freezer case! Frozen pizza accounts for 7.4 percent of total frozen food sales.


• The average American eat over 23 pounds of pizza per year.


• 56% of working moms with kids under 13 years of age say pizza is their children's favorite food.


• Americans eat about 891 slices of pizza per second and 166 acres of pizza per day.


• More than 1.8 billion slices of frozen pizza are sold each year. To eat just one day's worth of frozen pizza purchases, one would have to eat a slice of pizza every day for 13,863 years.

Pizza Facts

• Pepperoni is the most popular pizza topping, anchovies are the least favorite.


• The number one pizza consumption week is the week prior to the Super Bowl.


• October is National Pizza Month.


• Pizza means "pie" in Italian. It is a yeast dough covered with tomato sauce, topped with cheese and meat or vegetables and then baked. Without topping to weigh it down, the bread would puff up when it is baked.


• Pizza was created over 500 years ago by the women of Naples, Italy.


• Pizza makers started to spin the dough in the air during the 1930's. The gesture of spinning dough is for show only; it is not a function of pizza making.

Palermo’s Facts

• Palermo’s uses approximately 3.4 billion tomatoes a year to produce pizza sauce.


• Palermo’s manufacturing facility is 135,000 square feet, that’s equal to two football fields.


• The temperature in our spiral pizza freezer is 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.


• Palermo’s makes over 90 different pizza sauces.


• Our freezer can hold over 100 semi truck loads of pizza.