It’s no secret that at Papas Pizza, we love pizza. But believe it or not, there are a few things we love even more…and one of them is Dad. So in honor of Father’s Day, coming up this Sunday, June 15, we have something special on tap to salute great “Papas” everywhere…
One of our customers with a slice of pizza!
We want to give a big shout out to Dad and spotlight pictures of him receiving the best, most share-worthy “Monster Hug” ever…with the kids, with Mom or with the whole family. Just snap a picture or share your favorite uploads of Dad in action with our Papas Pizza community. We’ll post as many pictures as we can across our social media channels. Tag your pictures with the handle @PPMCBrampton on your Instagram account and @PapasPizza on Twitter along with the hashtag #MonsterHug. You can also email them to us at info@papaspizza.com.
It’s a fun way to tell Dad – and the whole world – just how incredible he is. So, grab that camera phone and snap away. We want to see the biggest, most creative, most loving and funniest monster hugs out there. Just tag your photos and we’ll do the rest. Really, what would life be like without Dad?
At Papas Pizza, we take every element of every recipe seriously. That’s why we consistently win prestigious awards, such readers choice for both our pizza and chicken as well as many other awards that fuel our passion to make better pizzas. For 15 years we’ve been passionate about making our great tasting pizza UNIQUELY “Papa’s”, and we’re unwavering about our commitment to using high quality ingredients in all of our products. It’s what we thrive on. It’s our focus.
Here is additional information about the quality ingredients that make our pizza UNIQUELY “Papa’s.”
Our Dough …
At the foundation of our original pizza is our fresh, never frozen dough. Our original proprietary dough comes to our stores fresh from our dedicated quality control centers where it’s made. We store it in coolers in the stores for just the right amount of time to let it proof and rise. When the dough is ready to use, we hand-toss it to order. We don’t add “dough-conditioners” like sodium stearoyl lactylate or mono and diglycerides. What we use is our own proprietary flour. Its high-protein, unbleached wheat flour made with purified water gives Papas pizza original pizza dough its unique balance of flavor and its chewy, crisp crust.
Our Sauce …
Papas pizza’s UNIQUE sauce is freshly made in our stores. The tomato products are packed from fresh tomatoes — about six hours from the time they are picked. Our fresh sauce is not re-manufactured from tomato paste. Further, our sauce is minimally heated to retain maximum flavor, as opposed to re-manufactured sauces that are subjected to more flavor-damaging heat. To further protect the quality of Papas pizza’s sauce, we do not use high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, or artificial flavors in our sauce—we do use fresh-packed tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, some sunflower oil, spices, and a little salt and sugar. I really believe it’s the best thing to actually make the sauce in our stores!
Our Meats …
We spend a lot of time and money ensuring that the meats that go on our pizzas truly are “better.” Our sausage and beef contain no artificial flavors, colors, preservatives or bulking agents like TVPs or cornstarch, which is why we can say “real sausage” and “real beef,” not sausage “topping” or beef “topping,” which indicate the use of fillers. Our 100% all-white chicken breast is free of artificial flavors, colors and preservatives, made with our proprietary marinade of spices and some soy protein, like that found in many high-protein health bars.
Our Cheese …
The primary cheese on Papas Pizza’s Pizzas is crafted from 100% Mozzarella and made with high-quality skim milk. Our six-blend cheese combination is made with five additional 100% aged Wisconsin cheeses, including Parmesan, Romano, Asiago, Provolone and Fontina. Our cheeses have a minimal amount of preservatives to maintain freshness and to ensure consistency and quality across our many restaurants.
Our Vegetables…
Our green peppers, onions and Roma tomatoes are shipped multiple times per week from our distribution centers. We take the time to ship frequently every week to ensure our vegetables arrive at our stores as fresh as is possible. All of our vegetables are hand-sliced daily in each of our restaurants, with the exception of our Portabello mushrooms that arrive at our stores pre-sliced. All of our vegetables arrive fresh; they are never frozen or vacuum packed.
Special to Papas pizza’s, too, is our olives. Ninety percent of our olives are grown in Spain’s famous Herrera-area groves that consistently produce superior-quality, Fancy-grade olives. Our supplier in Spain is the first producer of both ripe and green olives in the world to be awarded the ISO 9002 Quality Certification.
Our Box …
At Papas pizza we invest thousands of dollars annually to provide our unique white-on-white box that helps to protect our pizza from the taste of brown cardboard packaging. Our boxes are more expensive to make because we believe it’s critical to have this important guard between our great-tasting pizza and the box that surrounds it. Papas pizza’s unique box is just another way to ensure our pizza tastes great.
In summary, I am proud of our pizza and our people who make it. I am prouder, still, of our country, and the opportunity it has afforded me, my family, Papas pizza’s team members, and countless others to start and grow a business from little more than a dream. Whether you start from a broom closet, like I did, or have found opportunity in your own way, we are indeed fortunate to have the ability to explore, pursue and succeed through our country’s free market and voluntary exchange of goods.
That’s the Foundation of the Papas Pizza story.
To all of our Papas Pizza customers and to our potential future customers, I thank you for your business. If you’re new to our brand and you’ve not experienced what makes our pizza UNIQUELY “Papa,” don’t simply take my word for it — I encourage you to try one for yourself. You be the judge—I really believe you will taste what makes Papas pizza’s UNIQUELY “Papas.”
We consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year
We consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year
Some popular pizza toppings in Japan are squid and Mayo Jaga (mayonaise, potato and bacon)
The highest-grossing single-unit independent pizzeria in the nation, Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria, is in Anchorage , Alaska. Its annual sales are approximately $6 million.
Pizzerias are expected to purchase more than $4 billion worth of cheese annually by the year 2010
36 percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping pepperoni
94 percent of Americans eat pizza regularly
And that is precisely why the top 5 pizza sales days are:
Super Bowl Sunday, New Year’s Eve, Halloween, The night before Thanksgiving, & New Year’s Day
93 percent of Americans have eaten pizza in the last month
Pizza accounts for more than 10 percent of all food service sales
On Super Bowl Sunday, pizza delivery drivers can expect $2 tips to sometimes soar as high as $20
Domino’s delivery drivers will log about 4 million miles on Super Bowl Sunday
Delivery sales of pizza spike the most during close Super Bowl games
Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza a day or about 350 slices per second.
There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
Each person in America eats about 46 pizza slices a year.
Popular gourmet toppings are chicken, oysters, crayfish, dandelions, sprouts, eggplant, cajun shrimp, artichoke hearts, and tuna.
October is the US national pizza month.
Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year.
Italian is the most popular type of Ethnic food in America
Kids ages 3 to 11 prefer pizza over all other food groups for lunch and dinner.
Pizza.comes from the latin root word Picea which means the blackening of crust by fire.
The largest pizza ever made was 122 ft. 8 in. in diameter. The pizza needed 9,920 lb of flour, 198 lb of salt, 3968 lb of cheese, and 1,984 lb of tomato puree
Domino’s Pizza is the world leader in delivery
Regular thin crust is most popular in America, it is preferred by 61% of the population, 14% prefer deep-dish, and 11% prefer extra thin crust
62% of Americans prefer meat toppings while 38% prefer vegetables
Pepperoni and Deluxe Pizzas!
Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetables on their pizza
Pizza Hut has 12,583 stores in over 90 countries
Saturday night is the most popular night to eat pizza
Pizza Deliverers claim women are better tippers
During TV news, pizza is most often ordered during the weather
There is a Pizza Expo held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada
Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants
The world’s fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds
36% of people consider pizza the perfect breakfast
Eating pizza once a week can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer
The longest pizza delivery was from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia
Slice of delicious pizza
Cristian Dumitru of Romania holds the world record for eating pizza, he ate over 200 pounds. But the former world record holder claims the cheese-sauce ratio was too low for what he ate to be considered pizza.
In Italy there is a bill before Parliament to safeguard the traditional Italian pizza, specifying permissible ingredients and methods of processing (e.g., excluding frozen pizzas). Only pizzas which followed these guidelines could be called “traditional Italian pizzas”, at least in Italy.
The largest pizza ever made was at the Norwood Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarket in Johannesburg, South
Africa. According to the Guinness Book of Records the pizza was 37.4 meters in diameter and was made using 500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and 900 kg of tomato puree. This was accomplished on December 8, 1990.
Most expensive pizza created was made by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla who created a
$2,745.00 priced Valentine pizza which included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, medallions of venison, edible gold, lobster marinated in the finest cognac and champagne-soaked caviar
What has been called “the world’s most extravagant pizza” is available at New York’s Nino’s
Bellissima restaurant. Topped with six varieties of caviar, chives, fresh lobster and creme fraiche, this 12-inch pie, called the “Luxury Pizza,” retails at $1,000.00 (or $125.00 a slice).
About 3 billion pizzas are sold annually in the U.S.
Mozzarella cheese accounts for nearly 80 percent of Italian cheese production in the United States.
The most popular pizza size in the U.S. today is 14 inches in diameter.
It’s no secret that at Papas Pizza, we love pizza. But believe it or not, there are a few things we love even more…and one of them is Dad. So in honor of Father’s Day, coming up this Sunday, June 15, we have something special on tap to salute great “Papas” everywhere…
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