12.5 million pizzas will be sold today – and local restaurants knead the dough
The Super Bowl is today, followed by Tuesday’s National Pizza Day and Valentine’s Day on the 14th. It’s estimated that 12.5 million pizzas will be sold today, alone - and nearly one-in-ten of us thinks pizza makes for a perfect Valentine’s Day. That means you’re going to enjoy more slices, this week, than Roger Federer.
Taste of Cincinnati All Winter Long, a marketing initiative to help sustain restaurants and bars struggling through the cold and socially distanced early months of 2021, is celebrating pizza all week (and all winter long). You can help support local restaurants by dining-in, carrying-out, driving-thru and ordering delivery of these great pizza offers, A to Z:
- Adriatico's Pizza - Buy one personal pizza, get one of equal/lesser value FREE (Dine-in only) 
- Catch-a-Fire Pizza - 20% off gift cards of $60 or more 
- Chameleon Pizza - Monday night special - $4 off all pizza pies 
- Dead Low Brewing - $5 eight-inch cheese pizza 
- Fireside Pizza - Gift cards 15% off 
- Jim and Jack’s on the River – Buy any extra-large pizza, get a FREE order of garlic bread sticks with dipping sauce 
- Mac's Pizza Pub - Purchase a $50 gift card, receive an additional $10 gift card 
- O Pie O - 20% off $25, $50, and $100 gift cards 
- Red Rose Jems - Buy any size pizza and get a 10-inch, one topping pizza FREE 
- Rusconi Pizza Kitchen - 20% bonus added to every e-gift card sold 
- Wildfire Pizza Kitchen – Any large specialty pizza, cheese bread and two slices of cheesecake for $25 
- Zablong Peculiar Pizza – Get a special Cadillac Ranch pizza with rchicken, bacon, ranch sauce, cheese blend and black pepper for $9. 
PIZZA PI - BY THE NUMBERS
- $46.24 billion – Total U.S. pizza industry sales for the period of Oct. 2019-Sep. 2020 
- 350 – the number of pizza slices sold in the U.S. every second 
- 98 – the percentage of people who say they like pizza 
- 10 – the percentage of people who like to have a glass of wine with their pizza 
- 4 – the percentage of women who would rather eat pizza than have a significant other 
Sources – NationalToday.com, Pizza Magazine, Food Safety News.


 
            