I am always disappointed when I see somewhere offering pies and then it turns out to be pizza.
That said, when we do get pizza, we get large ones. Provides breakfast and lunch the next day too 
Sorry but thatās not what exponential means. If it grows like r^2 then it is polynomial
This is news? The only thing that chart teaches me is there is an untapped market for 22" pizzas.
I figure they ought to have pizzas in all the sizes TVs come in nowadays.
Shshshshsh!
Iāve always known this, and while Iām not one of those āIām so smart and thatās old news!ā people, Iām really trying to keep this fact under the radar of Big Pizza.
Quantity of food/calories, sure. But the crust near the center (IMO) tends to suffer on larger pizzas. And even though Iām a big guy, I just prefer small food. But thatās just like my opinion, man.
What about pizza weight as a function of number of toppings?
I donāt know about going bigger than a large, but one thing is clear to me:
Never order a small or medium pizza.
Smaller pizzas suffer from the wrong crust to non-crust ratio. Additionally, they often end up too thick/bread-y and without any crisp crunch.
IMHO, the correct size for a pizza is the standard large, i.e, the size of the standard pizza box size.*
And yes, quantity ā quality. (Remember Pizza Hutās āBigfootā?)
*Does not apply to artisanal pizzas, which are a different beast altogether.
āThe graph below is based on 74,476 prices from 3,678 pizza places around the countryā
So, something like 20 data points per restaurant? Small, medium, large, extra largeā¦ what else? It wouldnāt make sense to talk about toppings in this context, would it?
That might be logarithmic. Diverging, but very slowly. 
Yesterday I saw generic coffee on sale - 25oz $5.99. The smaller can was 11oz for $5.99. Yes, they were actually the same price; even the regular price was only a dollar higher.
Iāve always assumed that meant the cost of the can far outweighed the cost of the coffee, but itās more likely the cost of marketing and shelf space. Iām trying to figure out a way to arbitrage the two and get paid for not drinking any coffee at all.
Unless you chose the same topping set across all pizzas.
Thanks for pointing that out. Words have meanings There are rules. This isnāt Nam.
Leaving aside that minor usage gaffe, why has this story been picked up by so many sites? Itās usual for the larger package to have a lower unit price. Pizzas are no exception. It doesnāt have much to do with the formula for the area of a circle. And ignorance of that formula is not the main reason for ordering a smaller pizza.
One of the lessons I learned (that stuck) as a 14-year-old in basic economics was Marginal Utility when our excellent teacher had a volunteer eat as many chocolate bars as he could, and rate how much better each one made him feel.
Bigger may be better in a raw cost-benefit analysis, all other things remaining equal, but if you end up struggling to get those last slices down, you are setting yourself up to be unhappy with the experience.
Leaving waste brings me down (though leftover commercial pizza is also a good thing says science)
Shout-out to āMr Smithā, Nayland College 1987 for a good life lesson.
This is probably because energy and labor inputs account for the largest slice of the pizza-baking ahem pie, and ingredients are way down on the balance-sheet.
Based purely on this remark, it sounds like a solar powered robotic pizza oven would drastically increase your profit margins. (At least until competition brings the price down, in theory passing on the savings to the consumer.)
Someone get on this. I want cheap, clean, solar pizzas.
The weight of toppings will still increase on the square of the diameter assuming theyāre equally distributed.
Having used a calorie-counting app before I was aware of this. ItĀ“s better not to log pizza at all though, takes the fun right out of it.
bigger pizza = lower cost per square inch (but volume isnāt everything or weād all order super thick crusts)
most frugal purchase = cheapest pizza that provides the amount of food you intend to eat (but i think that isnāt the goal for most people either)
of course most volume per dollar isnāt my definition of a better deal, i donāt order the thickest crust possible to get the most cubic inches, more volume isnāt always more, capiche?
better deal = loaded toppings with all the toppings you love plus extra cheese if you like that because better pizza is the better value. Iād rather have less of something i like better then more of something crappier. i donāt eat at the cheapest pizza places or only frozen pizza because volume per dollar isnāt the real indicator of value. quality has to be the primary factor or forget it. not to mention that all this gets way more complicated when you consider that most pizza places offer a second pizza at a discount, and cheaper addons that add more volume filler (if that is what you are going for) at a lower price then bigger pizzas like bread sticks etc.
Iāve found a bottle of generic bottled water (I avoid advertised generic/commodity products - I hate the ads and I refuse to pay for them) where the 4l jug was the same price as the 1l bottle. Yikes!
Worse still: I was looking for a small bottle of javel water. It was priced higher than the three-times-as-much bottle! Now, I buy it in dollar stores.
/how is it that the spellchecker never heard of the word ājavelā?
