If you are a stock market follower than you have noticed Domino’s and Netflix both companies stock surges to record high as investors bet on streaming and contactless pizza delivery during coronavirus pandemic period. Let’s talk about pizza chains. How much do you really know about the pizza chain? I did some digging, and came up with some incredible facts you didn’t even know about pizza chain.
1.) Pizza Hut has opened its first vegetarian restaurant (even offering Jain food) in Gujarat, a state on the western coast of India. Domino’s Pizza has some restaurants in Gujarat, which offer completely vegetarian menu.
2.) Notable countries where Domino’s or Pizza Hut is not No.1 pizza chain:
- Cannada: Pizza Pizza
- Russia / Kazakhstan : Dodo Pizza
- Ireland: Apache Pizza
- South Korea: Mr.Pizza
- Spain / Portugal / Chile / Colombia : TelePizza
- Philippines : Greenwich Pizza
- South Africa : Debonairs Pizza
- Norway: Peppes Pizza
- Poland : Da Grasso pizzeria
- Lithuania / Lativa : Čili
- Italy : Spizzico
- Thailand : The Pizza Company
3.) Telepizza is currently the largest non-American pizza chain in the world. Pizza-La is the second highest-grossing pizza chain in Japan after Domino’s Pizza. PizzaExpress is also a notable UK restaurant chain.
4.) Pizza Planet is a fictional pizza restaurant that appears in every Pixar movie. The Pizza Planet truck has become one of Pixar’s most recognized and hidden Easter Eggs.
5.) The first online food order was a pizza from Pizza Hut in 1994.