Playing three different video-game systems on a big screen plasma TV while enjoying surround sound and free Pizza Hut pizza for a year might sound like a dream, but that prize package will become very real for one lucky winner. And, with the new promotion, everyone who orders online at pizzahut.com will get 30 days of free game rentals from GameFly.com.

“Gamers have always been big fans of Pizza Hut so this sweepstakes is a natural fit,” said Brian Niccol, Pizza Hut CMO. “Your next online order at pizzahut.com could be your ticket to a gaming package that will make you the envy of all your friends.”

Order Online for Your Chance to Win

From May 27 through July 26, customers ordering online at pizzahut.com can enter for their chance to win the “Gamer’s Fantasy Package.” One lucky winner will take home a prize package valued at over $10,000, including a 60” LG Plasma TV, an XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation3 gaming systems, a Bose Home Theater System, a Berkline home theater seating set and a popcorn machine. GameFly.com will make sure you have plenty of games to play on your new systems with a free one-year subscription, while Pizza Hut will make sure you don’t go hungry with a year’s worth of free pizza. Five first prize winners will receive one-year trial memberships to GameFly.com, while 500 second-prize winners will receive 60 day trial memberships. Official rules and contest details are available at pizzahut.com.

Everyone’s a Winner with a Free Month of GameFly.com

Even if you don’t take home the Gamers Fantasy Package, you can still score big with a free month of GameFly.com when you order online at pizzahut.com. Beginning May 27th, customers placing an online order will receive a code good for 30 days of free game rentals from GameFly.com, a $22.95 value. GameFly.com is your ticket to thousands of your favorite video game titles delivered right to you door.

The P’Zone is Back!

If you’ve got one hand glued to your game controller and only one hand free for eating, then you’ll be glad to welcome back the P’Zone. The P’Zone from Pizza Hut has savory toppings and mozzarella cheese sealed inside a folded 12” pizza crust, perfect for feeding hungry gamers while they’re otherwise occupied. Each P’Zone is baked calzone-style and served with marinara sauce. P’Zones come in one of three flavors: Classic, Meaty, and Pepperoni. With over a pound of ingredients baked inside, you can get one P’Zone for $5.99 or two for $10.99.

About Pizza Hut

As the world’s largest pizza restaurant company with almost 6,200 restaurants in the United States and more than 4,000 restaurants in 100 other countries, Pizza Hut, Inc., is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM). The company’s 49-year legacy of leadership and innovation has made it the recognized leader in the $37 billion pizza category. Those hungry for more information can go to the official Pizza Hut Website at www.pizzahut.com.

About GameFly

GameFly™ is the leading online video game rental service. With a choice of more than 5,000 titles, GameFly offers the widest selection of games for the PlayStation® 2, PlayStation® 3, Xbox™, Xbox 360™, GameCube™, Game Boy™ Advance, Nintendo DS™, Nintendo Wii™ and PSP™ without the hassle of due dates or late fees. With plans starting at $15.95 a month, GameFly subscribers can rent one to four games at a time and keep them for as long as they like. Subscribers manage their GameQ™ online and receive games directly from the U.S. Postal Service via first class mail. GameFly is also a great source for high quality, used video games at exceptional prices. For more information and a free trial, please visit www.gamefly.com.

It was inevitable that someone would capitalize on the American passion for pizza and beer, and literally put two and two together.

Illinois homebrewer and entrepreneur Tom Seefurth contracted with Sprecher Brewery in Glendale, Wis., to produce Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer, brewed with tomatoes, garlic, oregano and basil.

Seefurth was the first to admit that a pizza beer is not the type you would want to chug a six-pack of. He described it as a “culinary beer,” designed to drink with food.

I had an experience with something similar when I tried a thyme beer at a former brewpub in De Pere, Wis. By itself, it tasted awful, but with a pizza, it wasn’t too bad. So with that in mind, I had a Pizza Beer by itself and later with some pizza bread.

The aroma was encouraging - it was mostly like fresh-out-of-the-oven pizza dough with a hint of garlic, though the garlic became more pronounced as the beer warmed up.

The copper-colored beer was nice and clear with a head that didn’t last too long. The first taste started off with the tomato and garlic dominating, and the oregano and basil coming through more in the aftertaste. The flavor is all pizza, overwhelming any actual beer flavor, though I could tell the base beverage wasn’t just some cheap mass-produced knockoff.

The flavors were solid, but this is not a beer I would ever drink again by itself. I had another with some pizza bread and it did complement it well. On the other hand, I like a somewhat plain beer with my pizza in order to counteract the excessive salt and oil in most of them. And since I like pizza with lots of garlic, fresh tomatoes, herbs, etc., do I really need a beer with the same ingredients?

That’s something people will have to decide for themselves.

Although it’s currently only sold in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, Seefurth said the beer can be mail-ordered from Sam’s Wines and Spirits 800-777-9137; www.samswine.com, and Top Shelf Wine and Spirits 847-214-8300; www.topshelfwineandspirits.com, if your state allows shipping of alcohol products.

HAGERSTOWN, MD - Rocky’s Pizza has been voted number one in Hagerstown for their famous pies, but now they are known for another reason; professional wrestling.

When you see the father-son tag team, they are usually tossing pizzas. However, they tossed their opponents around a wrestling ring.

“I was really nervous about it. I was facing a guy who is 6′5″ and an ex-WWE guy, so I wasn’t taking him very lightly, that is for sure. I was very nervous, but I was very prepared,” said Vinnie Schiano, Di Cola, Owner of Rocky’s Pizza.

Vinnie and his son, Cocky Rocky, took on the hated team of Corporal Punishment and Gusten Uberstud. Now, Cocky Rocky is no new name in the ring. But, his father has only been training for the past two months.

“I was really thinking about protecting my father at all costs,” said Cocky Rocky Dicola, NWL Wrestler.

It was his fatherly instincts that got Vinnie in the ring and the support of the crowd that kept him going.
 
“It was so exciting to hear my family yelling because it gave me more power and more strength to go on with it. I was scared at first when I got in there, but then I just heard the fans going off and I said to myself, ‘I know I can do this,’” said Schiano Di Cola.

“When we won the match, the last thing I said to my dad was, ‘I love you man, thank you.’ It really meant a lot to me to share that with my father. A lot of people I know would love to do it, but I’m glad to say I got to do it,” said Di Cola.

Having the father-son duo step into the ring is part of what the wrestling organization is all about. Not only do they entertain their audience, but it’s good family fun at the same time.

“We keep it as clean; good versus evil without all the dirty things and the bad words and the gestures that you will see at a lot of these other places,” said John Rambo, NWL Instructor.

The winners couldn’t let their opponents go home empty-handed. Fans got to smear some of the famous Rocky’s Pizza in the losers’ faces. After the win, Vinnie said he plans on continuing his training as a professional wrestler.

Pizza Hut anticipates preparing almost two million pizzas during the hours leading up to the Super Bowl.Nearly 50% of the Pizza Hut deliveries and carry-outs occur in the two hours prior to kick off and during the first hour of the Super Bowl.

Pepperoni is the most requested topping followed by Italian sausage and extra cheese. Breadsticks are the most popular side order followed by wings and cinnamon sticks. Pan Pizza is the most popular followed by  Hand-Tossed Style Pizza.

Domino’s delivered 400 million pizzas last year… that’s a pizza (and a slice) for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Pizza is a $30 billion per year industry.1

The World’s Fastest Pizza Maker makes 14 pizzas in 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

Domino’s opened its 7,000 store worldwide on April 10, 2001 in Brooklyn, New York

Domino’s drivers cover 9 million miles each week in the U.S. alone. (That’s 37.5 round trips to the moon every week!)

In 2004, Super Bowl Sunday was the busiest day of the year. Domino’s sold close to 1.2 million pizzas, which is about 42 percent more pizzas compared to a normal Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday ranks among the top five days for pizza deliveries annually, up there with Thanksgiving Eve, New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve and Halloween.

Ever wonder about what the three dots stand for in the Domino’s Pizza logo? They represent the first three Domino’s Pizza stores. The plan was to add a dot for every new store, however, with Domino’s current store count over 7,000, that would have been quite impossible to continue.

Super Bowl Takeout and Delivery Fact Sheet:

* According to National Restaurant Association research, roughly one out of seven (15 percent) Americans order takeout or delivery food from a restaurant for a Super Bowl gathering at their house or someone else’s house. For younger adults (ages 18-34) who watch the Super Bowl * this year held on Sunday, February 5 * that figure rises to 22 percent.

* Of those who ordered takeout or delivery, 58 percent ordered pizza, 50 percent ordered chicken wings, and 20 percent ordered subs or sandwiches.

* Those living in larger households (three or more members) were more likely than others to order takeout or delivery on Super Bowl Sunday, as were those living in a metropolitan area, and those living in the Northeast.

* In addition, approximately one in 20 Americans (4 percent) watch the big game at a restaurant or a bar.

October is National Pizza Month, (US). It was first so designated in 1987 and continues to be the traditional time for celebration of one of America’s most important and popular food industries.

Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza EACH DAY, or about 350 slices per second.

Pizza is a $41+ BILLION per year industry. There are approximately 69,000 pizzerias in the United States. Approximately 3.5 BILLION pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year. (Source: Blumenfeld and Associates)

Pizzerias represent 17% of all restaurants. (Source: Food Industry News.)

Pizza accounts for more that 10% of all foodservice sales. (Source: Food Industry News.)

93% of Americans eat AT LEAST one pizza per month. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

66.66% of Americans order pizza for a casual evening with friends. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

Each man, woman and child in America eats and average of 46 slices, (23 pounds), of pizza per year. (Source: Packaged Facts, New York.)

Italian food ranks as the most popular ethnic food in America. (Source: National Restaurant Association.)

According to a recent Gallop Poll, children between the ages of 3 and 11 prefer PIZZA over all other food groups for lunch and dinner.

A study done by a U.S. Department of Agriculture statistician and home economist found that in a three-day survey period, 42% of children between the ages of 6 and 11 has eaten pizza. (Source: Smithsonian Magazine.)

94% of the population of the U.S. eats pizza. (Source: Parade Magazine.)

Favorite Pizza Toppings in the United States

Pepperoni is by far America’s favorite topping, (36% of all pizza orders). Approximately 251,770,000 pounds of pepperoni are consumed on pizzas annually. Other popular pizza toppings are mushrooms, extra cheese, sausage, green pepper and onions.

Gourmet toppings are gaining ground in some areas of the country such as chicken, oysters, crayfish, dandelions, sprouts, eggplant, Cajun shrimp, artichoke hearts and tuna. More recent trends include game meats such as venison, duck and Canadian bacon.

Mozzarella cheese represents 30% of total cheese output. Production of Italian cheeses such as mozzarella, provolone, ricotta, parmesan and Romano by U.S. cheese makers more than doubled between 1980 and 1992, from 688.6 MILLION pounds per year to nearly 2 BILLION pounds per year. (Source: Cheese Market News.)

Manufacturers’ sales of pizza cheese should top $44 BILLION by 2006. U.S. per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese was 7.93 pounds in 1994 and is predicted to reach 12.51 pounds by 2005. (Source: Business Trend Analysts, BTA)

62% of Americans prefer meat toppings on their pizza, while 38% prefer vegetarian toppings. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetarian toppings on their pizza. (Source: Bolla Wines.)

Barbeque pizza emerged as one of the more popular pizza variations in a 1994 study by the National Restaurant Association. Nearly 33% of menus offered some form of this dish. Other popular variations were Mexican pizza, white pizza, five-cheese combos, non-cheese pies and traditional Italian pizzas such as Margherita, Florentine and new potato pizzas. (Source: National Restaurant Assocation).

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