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National Pizza Month: The Perfect Pizza for Offices Everywhere

October; the month where it starts getting colder than my soul, which calls for a higher consumption of warmer foods, including pizza. Did you know that October is National Pizza Month? Neither did I until recently. Startled by such news, I didn’t know how to start getting on my pizza game until ezCater came around into my life. 

What’s the deal?

Angry Orchard Unfiltered mac n cheese cheese
Megan Japczyk

Did you know that so far this year, offices nationwide have consumed 67.6 million lbs of ‘za? Neither did I. I don’t think that I have a basic understanding of how much pizza that actually is, but whatever that number is, I’m with it. Despite the popularity of a classic cheese pizza, offices aren’t shying away from adding toppings, since according to ezCater, the perfect office pizza would be 33% cheese, 29% of a meat topping, 11% veggies and 27% “custom” toppings. Custom toppings include, but aren’t limited to, butternut squash ricotta cranberry, pineapple salsa bacon and fresh jalapeño, chicken club ‘za, taco pizza, chicken tikka masala, and sriracha chicken avocado. Quite the interesting set of combos if you ask me.. scratch that, I wasn’t asked. The nice thing about pizza is that it remains the official Friday junior pick me up in offices, with 22.1% of all pizza orders being requested on Friday junior… aka Thursday. Within the past year, American offices have spent almost 90 million dollars on cheese pizza alone… that’s a whole lot of cheese pizza for National Pizza Month. The nice thing about that quick fact is that it just so happens to be more than double the highest paid NBA player’s salary for a year… guess he needs some pizza too.

What else is there to know?

National Pizza Month pizza pepperoni
Emily Waples

The weight amount equivalent to how much pizza offices order on a yearly basis equals 33,800 tons of pizza… that’s basically the weight of 23,550 cars. The thing with National Pizza Month is that ‘za is ‘za, regardless of if you get a cheap 99 cent slice, or if you get your ‘za from Artichoke or any other artisanal pizza shop. Isn’t that nice to know? Toppings, plain, or straight up cheese, it doesn’t matter how you consume pizza during National Pizza Month since by the end of the day, it’s all pizza that’s going straight into your stomach… and out the other end… tmi, I know.

Liz is a 25-year-old freelance writer that's based in Brooklyn, New York with her foster cat, Leif. Liz has received her start in the media world at Spoon University, and has acquired over 3.8 million views on her Spoon articles alone with millions more views on her syndicated content while finding her appreciation for consuming and producing branded content. Liz also has her articles syndicated on Business Insider, Insider, MSN, and Teen Vogue in addition to having her most popular article cited by Elite Daily. Liz has also contributed to YourTango and Entrepreneur.When Liz isn't writing, Liz is probably listening to music, walking around aimlessly like the hot mess that she is, cuddling with her cat, consuming new food dishes and drinks, at an event, at therapy with her one and only therapist that she absolutely adores, at an appointment with someone from her medical team, making up random dance moves in her bedroom, or figuring out what to do with herself. Liz's favorite cheese is feta and a pet peeve of hers is when people don't use the word "simultaneously" in the right manner.To get in touch with Liz, she can be reached at itslizab@gmail.com, @astrrisk on Instagram, and on LinkedIn. Liz is always down to be invited to an event or to talk about food, booze, and mental health. Liz's pronouns are she/her/hers.Please be patient when getting in touch with Liz - she probably is unaware as to what day it is, and might be dancing for her therapist.... to the Macarena, of course.