Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Pizza is pervasive on high school menus, with 98% of 175 high schools listing pizza on the menu. For comparison, 100% of the top 175 districts list Sandwiches on the menu, 93% list Burgers, 97% Salads and 100% Prepared Entrees.
Most of the time, the pizza item type is simply described as Cheese Pizza (97% of high school districts list on the menu) or Pepperoni Pizza (53%), but other flavors and varieties are emerging. All in all, there are 44 pizza types monitored by FlavorTrak K12 Menus.
Pizza menu selections in high schools are segmented by:
Most districts list on the menu 2 or 3 pizza flavors / varieties, but some districts offer a wider pizza selection, such as:
| Pizza Item Type / Variety / Style | Incidence |
|---|---|
| Cheese Pizza / Pizza | 97.1% |
| Pepperoni Pizza | 52.6% |
| Breakfast Pizza | 43.4% |
| French Bread Pizza w/ Cheese | 10.3% |
| Buffalo Chicken Pizza | 10.3% |
| Vegetable Pizza | 8.0% |
| Stuffed Crust Cheese Pizza | 8.0% |
| Stuffed Crust Pizza | 6.9% |
| Breakfast Pizza w/ Turkey Sausage | 6.3% |
| Stuffed Crust Pepperoni Pizza | 5.7% |
| Fiesta / Mexican Pizza | 4.6% |
| Sausage Pizza | 4.0% |
| Breakfast Sausage Pizza | 4.0% |
| Hawaiian Pizza | 3.4% |
| French Bread Pizza w/ Cheese and Meat | 2.9% |
| Deep Dish Cheese Pizza | 2.9% |
| Meat Lovers Pizza | 2.3% |
| Flatbread Pizza | 2.3% |
| BBQ Chicken Pizza | 2.3% |
| Vegetarian Pizza | 1.7% |
| Turkey Pepperoni and Cheese Pizza | 1.7% |
| Taco Pizza | 1.7% |
| Chicken Spinach Pizza | 1.7% |
| Bean Pizza | 1.7% |
| Bacon and Egg Pizza | 1.7% |
Foodservice Research Institute specializes in collecting information from commercial and non commercial operators. We created FlavorTrak K-12 Menus to assist your targeted research efforts by quantifying category usage levels. Our experience with the MenuMine menu information database has been used to create a service with an exclusive focus on the school foodservice segment.
