Thanks for the heads up - I can’t wait to try it.

Merrill

Interesting question - I actually started to try and figure it out and than I decided why not Google the question - here is what I found:

Domino’s will deliver about 1.2 million pizzas on Super Bowl Sunday — nearly twice as many as on a regular Sunday. Little Caesars will push its Party Pack promotion: four large pizzas for as little as $20 in some areas. And Papa John’s expects its business will jump 70% in some areas — one reason CEO John Schnatter says he’ll put on a smock and work in a shop that day.

But perhaps no one embraces the Super Bowl more than Pizza Hut, the world’s most powerful and influential pizza seller. On Super Bowl Sunday, the company will unveil what it considers its biggest product idea in years: four square, topped-to-order pizzas in one large pizza box, which, at $11.99, costs about the same as a regular large pizza.

That information is from 2004 so i am sure the numbers are higher in 2007.

nice topic.

Merrill

I too am a pizza lover, although I am not as into buying them these days since slimming down. I have always been a deep dish pineapple and canadian bacon sort. Papa Johns has always satisfied along with an Italian joint that I used to frequent years ago in Huntington Beach Ca. called ‘Grivetti’s’. Their pizzas were Le Magnifique!

I wish to throw out a bigger stat question. Of the billions that pizzerias make selling pizza and ditto the cheese, what percentage of all that $$$$$ comes from one day? Yes I refer to Super Bowl Sunday! In fact, dare I say that watching college and pro football make Sat/Sun the two best days for sales/delivery? Shall I even include the Friday night lights of high school football? Does Texas have the biggest amount of pizza ingestion? I am guessing Philly! Again just some thoughts.

Take care friend!

Thanks for your comments - I didn’t realize you love pizza that much. I will print out your list and make sure I take it on upcoming trips.

Maybe one of these days we can share a pie together while are Sox are winning playoff games this year!

Merrill

Yes, I am definitely a big fan of pizza and the very word causes my eyes to glaze over the way Homer Simpson’s do when he says the word “Donut”. Pizza is there anything it can’t do.

When it comes to Pizza, I’m pretty old school. I’m not a big fan of the California “designer” pizzas, or the St Louis “flat” style with “Provel” cheese. Chicago Deep Dish is good, but the crust usually is too bland for my taste. I like a good chewy crust with real mozzarella and sausage and pepperoni.

Saturday night at Casa Graham has always been pizza night a tradition that continues even though we are now empty nesters.

Of course, NYC is pizza heaven and it’s rare that you find a bad pie there. I remember a small pizza shop in Brooklyn (Jes’s–no longer in business) that was everything a pizzeria should be. It was run by a young Italian guy who barely spoke English and his wife and infant son were always there. He made a great pie, but he knew where his priorities were. One Saturday night, I tried to place an order at 4:00, but he was closing because it was the day of San Gennaro festival.

The best kept secret in the Pizza World is Buffalo, NY. Sure it’s know for it wings (and to a lesser extent for Beef on ‘Weck) but it has a great pizza style: the crust is chewy and the sauce bites back (this makes it somewhat different from NYC pizza). Before you die, you have to get a pizza from Bocce Club (you can order them on-line, but I don’t think they’d be nearly as good). Also good is Santora’s. His kids opened up some shops serving Buffalo style pizza in Las Vegas, so those of you heading there for the AMA Conference take note.

You also usually find good pizza in college towns: Stephano’s in Knoxville, TN is a good example: good red sauce and a wheat crust. Highly recommended.

For those of you with a pizza obsession, I direct you to the great blog “Slice”: http://slice.seriouseats.com/ where you will not only find great evaluations of pizzerias, but even a iPod down-loadable walking tour of the Pizzerias of NY.