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Leading Pizza Types on High School Menus

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

Pizza

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:

  • Flavor including buffalo, bbq, parmesan, vegetable and bean
  • Ethnicity / Cuisine including Italian, French, Hawaiian, Asian (General Tso) and Mexican
  • Protein including pepperoni, turkey, chicken, sausage, bacon and beef
  • Platform including flatbread, French bread, quesadilla, taco, bruschetta, fajita, stuffed and deep dish. Note: pizza bagels, dippers, and pizza burgers are not classified as pizza types and are covered elsewhere in the FlavorTrak database.
  • Whole Grain / Whole Wheat is tallied by Item Component (name), not Item Type — 10% of districts list whole grain / whole wheat pizza.

Most districts list on the menu 2 or 3 pizza flavors / varieties, but some districts offer a wider pizza selection, such as:

  • Atlanta Public Schools which lists 7 pizza types on the menu including buffalo chicken pizza, fajita pizza and pizza quesadilla w/ turkey.
  • New York City Department of Education which offers a selection of 7 pizzas including bacon pizza, margherita pizza, garden pizza and chicken spinach pizza.
  • School District of Palm Beach County (FL) offers 13 various pizza types including bean pizza, buffalo chicken pizza and Mexican pizza. 
Pizza Item Type / Variety / StyleIncidence
Cheese Pizza / Pizza97.1%
Pepperoni Pizza52.6%
Breakfast Pizza43.4%
French Bread Pizza w/ Cheese10.3%
Buffalo Chicken Pizza10.3%
Vegetable Pizza8.0%
Stuffed Crust Cheese Pizza8.0%
Stuffed Crust Pizza6.9%
Breakfast Pizza w/ Turkey Sausage6.3%
Stuffed Crust Pepperoni Pizza5.7%
Fiesta / Mexican Pizza4.6%
Sausage Pizza4.0%
Breakfast Sausage Pizza4.0%
Hawaiian Pizza3.4%
French Bread Pizza w/ Cheese and Meat2.9%
Deep Dish Cheese Pizza2.9%
Meat Lovers Pizza2.3%
Flatbread Pizza2.3%
BBQ Chicken Pizza2.3%
Vegetarian Pizza1.7%
Turkey Pepperoni and Cheese Pizza1.7%
Taco Pizza1.7%
Chicken Spinach Pizza1.7%
Bean Pizza1.7%
Bacon and Egg Pizza1.7%

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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.

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