Seattle is famous for a lot of things: coffee, the space needle… and now, apparently, pizza! A surprising and somewhat unusual study by Mandoe Media set out to discover the top pizza city in the U.S.
Imagine everyone’s surprise when it turned out to be Seattle!
Here’s what to know about Seattle’s newest claim to fame.
How cities were ranked
Mandoe Media evaluated the following factors and assigned each a ranking to create a pizza ‘score’ for each city:
- Rating: An average rating of all pizza places in the city from online review sites.
- Excellence: Out of those reviews, what percentage of reviews were rated ‘excellent.’
- Choice: The number of pizza places each city offers.
- Interest: The number of Google searches for “pizza” per 100,000 of the population.
Once they gathered those numbers, Mandoe created an overall ‘score’ for each city, weighing Rating at 25 points, Excellence at 15 points, Choice at 5 points, and Interest at 10 points.
We don’t know how scientific that is, but here are the results!
Top Pizza Cities in the U.S.
You’re reading that right – there’s Seattle!
The city topped the charts, ranking the highest on all the above-mentioned metrics.
It’s no secret that Seattle has a pretty epic food scene. From the focus on fresh and local ingredients to the sheer variety of experimental cuisine (which apparently includes pizza), there’s a lot to pat ourselves on the back for.
If this ranking has put you in the mood, we have a roundup of 10 great places to grab a slice in Seattle that you can check out.
In case you want a closer look at the ‘numbers’, here’s a table breakdown of the top 10 pizza cities:
There you have it folks! You can think whatever you like about those numbers, but no matter what, one thing is for certain:
We’ve got a serious craving for pizza now.
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Alicia Lyons
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Alicia is a storyteller who chased the sun all the way to Calgary and decided to stay. When she’s not writing, she can be found stumbling along nature trails, curling up under a fuzzy blanket with a good book, or finding any excuse to eat.
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