Today is National Pizza Day

Today is National Pizza Day, a day we can have no problem celebrating.

Here are some fun facts about pizza:

• The average pizzeria uses roughly 55 pizza boxes per day.
• We consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year.
• 36 percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping pepperoni.
• 94 percent of Americans eat pizza regularly.
• The top 5 pizza sales days are Super Bowl Sunday, New Year's Eve, Halloween, night before Thanksgiving, & New Year's Day.
• Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350 slices per second.
• The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia
• Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants.
• Pizza comes from the latin root word Picea which means the blackening of crust by fire.