I was halfway through my pepperoni pizza dinner last night before I remembered that I was having pizza for lunch today. I don’t mind having pizza that often, but it made me wonder how much pizza people ate on average. I figured it was a lot, and I wasn’t wrong.
Whether the following facts are completely accurate or not, they’re a lot of fun. All the sites I checked agreed, but none of them was a primary source. However, these numbers don’t seem outrageous considering how much pizza I like to eat. Enjoy!
- Americans eat an average of 46 slices of pizza a year. That is 350 slices of pizza eaten per second.
- The average American eats 40 pizzas per year, 3 billion pizzas for the entire country.
- Every day, 13% of Americans are eating some form of pizza.
- There are 70,000 pizza restaurants in America. 9,000 of them are in New York City.
I feel like I’m average when it comes to my pizza consumption, but it would be fun to count how much pizza I eat in a year. It wouldn’t surprise me if I were above average because pizza is awesome.