Pizza Cash™: Feed the Family with Pizza Cash! Consumers can use Pizza Cash towards the purchase of pizza at over 15,000 locations throughout the U.S. Pizza Cash can be used towards eat in, takeout or delivery of one of America’s favorite foods.
- The average American consumes 50 slices of pizza each year.
- The U.S. restaurant industry is expected to tally $537 billion in sales in 2008.
- Approximately 3.5 billion pounds of tomatoes are used annually to make pizza, according to the National Association of Pizzeria Operators.
- Wyoming has fewer pizzerias than any other state - 129. California has the most with 5,735.
- According to NPD Foodservice Information Group, pizza is America's favorite hand-held food.
- Independents account for approximately 33 percent of industry's sales.
- 36 percent of all pizza sold in the U.S. contain pepperoni.
