How many pizza parlors are in the US?”
Apparently there is a Pizza Power Report !?!?! Who knew. The following info comes from http://www.pmq.com/mag/20061112/article.php?story=pizzapower2006 Store Counts – Compared to the previous year’s Pizza Power Report (2005), the total number of pizzerias in the U.S. dropped by 458 units, which represents a 0.7 percent decrease giving the pizza industry 69,386 total units. According to the NRA, there were approximately 900,000 restaurants in the U.S. at the end of 2005, which means pizzerias comprise 7.7 percent of all U.S. restaurants. Sales – Sales for the industry as a whole rose $309,054,060 (1 percent) to give the pizza segment overall sales of $31,214,460,060 for 2005. This $31.2 billion dollars in pizza sales represents 7.1 percent of the overall ‘eating place’ restaurant sales in the U.S., which according to the NRA was $437 billion. Store Averages – In 2005, the average store earnings
