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Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, and 93% down at least one pizza per month.
In 2004, Super Bowl Sunday was the busiest day of the year. Domino's sold close to 1.2 million pizzas, which is about 42 percent more pizzas compared to a normal Sunday.
Domino's opened its 7,000 store worldwide on April 10, 2001 in Brooklyn, New York
Did you know that the dots on domino’s pizza represent the first three Domino's Pizza stores. The plan was to add a dot for every new store, however, with Domino's current store count over 7,000, that would have been impossible to continue!
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!)
The World's Fastest Pizza Maker makes 14 pizzas in 2 minutes and 35 seconds.
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.
Pizza is now consumed all over the world, though travelers are often amazed by how different cultures have adapted pizza to their own preferences.
An Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi opened the first U.S. pizzeria in 1895 in New York City.
While originally thought to be poisonous, Spaniards who had been to Mexico and Peru introduced the tomato to Italy in the 16th century.
Mozzarella cheese was originally made from the milk of water buffalo!
62% of Americans prefer meat toppings on their pizza, while 38% prefer vegetarian pizza.
More pizza is consumed during Super Bowl week than any other week of the year.
America consumes around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year.
In the U.S., there are about 61,269 pizza parlors.
Kids between the ages of 3 and 11 prefer pizza over all other foods for dinner.
October is national pizza month
The world's largest pizza order came from the VF Corporation in North Carolina who ordered 3,386 pizzas for its 40,160 employees nationwide.
The world's largest pizza measured 37.4 meters in diameter, and was baked in South Africa in 1990.
Pizza Hut is the largest pizza company in the world.