"Americans love pizza. In fact, according to research by Gozney, a third of people in the U.S. eat pizza every week. That's hardly surprising when you consider the sheer number of pizza options available. The U.S. frozen pizza market, for example, was valued at more than $6.6 billion in 2022 (per Grand View Research). And then there are all the pizza restaurants - we're talking, quite literally, about thousands upon thousands of pizzerias."
"If you were a kid in the 1980s, there is a good chance you remember ShowBiz Pizza Place. If not, we'll refresh your memory: There was a four-piece animatronic band of animal characters, called The Rock-A-Fire Explosion, who would play rock songs while you scoffed down pizza and guzzled soda. After that, you could play video games, like the 1980s favorite "Dragon's Lair," for example. Has it all come flooding back?"
Americans consume pizza widely, with about a third of people eating pizza weekly and over 74,000 pizza restaurants in the U.S. The frozen pizza market exceeded $6.6 billion in 2022. Market saturation has generated intense competition, leading to the disappearance of several pizza chains such as ShowBiz Pizza Place, Eatza Pizza, and Pizza & Pipes. ShowBiz featured an animatronic band, arcade games, and once operated more than 200 locations before merging with Chuck E. Cheese by the early 1990s. Chuck E. Cheese continues to operate roughly 470 U.S. locations but faced bankruptcy in 2020.
Read at Tasting Table
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]