Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of the year for pizza sales! And while we can't count on our favorite team to win the game, businesses like Papa Murphy's (the fifth largest pizza chain in the nation) certainly count on lots of hungry customers to rush through their doors. We'd love to have you join us at a Papa Murphy's store in our area to watch the “workout” THE ENTIRE WEEK BEFORE the Super Bowl to tackle all those game day pizza orders!

These are the Game Day Stats for the # of pizzas Papa Murphy’s sells Super Bowl Sunday:

Nearly 16,000 GALLONS of sauce

More than 7 million slices of pepperoni

More than 119 TONS of shredded mozzarella

Roughly 401,000 dough balls

PAPA MURPHY’S DIFFERENCE:

Papa Murphy’s is so successful on Super Bowl Sunday because the company capitalizes on the new trend of staying home with family to watch the big game. At Papa Murphy’s, you pick your own fresh ingredients and take the pizza home to bake in your own oven – VS- waiting on the delivery boy with a cold pizza.

The new trend of staying home for the Super Bowl is catching on. In fact, 46% of Americans will watch the Super Bowl at home with their family. And did you know pizza is the favorite meal for children ages 3 -11 and the nation’s 4TH most craved food.

Ravens OR 49ers? The Big Winner is Pizza!

Winning Super Bowl Pizza Stats:

More pizzas are sold on Super Bowl Sunday when the game is close

Americans eat roughly 77 football fields of pizza each day (about 100 acres)

The only other holiday when people eat more pizza than Super Bowl Sunday is Thanksgiving

Americans eat about 350 slices of pizza/second!

Americans will spend more than $50 million on food during the four days leading up to the Super Bowl

On Super Bowl Sunday, local pizza stores surveyed report that their customers are about twice as likely to pick up their orders rather than have it delivered (pizzamarketplace.com)

Top 5 Pizza Sales Days:

1) Super Bowl Sunday

2) New Year’s Eve

3) Halloween

4) Night before Thanksgiving

5) New Year’s Day