{"id":12198,"date":"2015-03-05T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12198"},"modified":"2015-03-21T01:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T05:24:37","slug":"bow-before-the-might-of-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/bow-before-the-might-of-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Bow Before The Might Of Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pizza1.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pizza1.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pizza1-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even as fast food has suffered declining sales, pizza chains are seeing astonishing growth. The Economist explained why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pizza became popular in America after World War 2 when soldiers returned from Italy and spread it to the masses.<\/li>\n<li>People (mistakenly) assume that pizza is healthier than other fast food as it contains what is seen as a good balance of meats, veggies, dairy, and grains.<\/li>\n<li>After the financial crisis people stopped going out to eat, but ordering a pizza at home still seemed relatively cheap.<\/li>\n<li>There is also innovation: from bacon stuffed crusts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/images\/search?q=pizza+in+a+cone&amp;FORM=HDRSC2\">pizza in a cone<\/a> there are countless chains that offer a different take on the traditional pizza experience.<\/li>\n<li>This keeps consumers coming back \u2013 and since many of these innovations are difficult to replicate at home, it also means that pizza chains offer an experience that people can&#8217;t get anywhere else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the dominance of pizza <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2015\/02\/economist-explains-24\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2015\/02\/economist-explains-24\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as fast food has suffered declining sales, pizza chains are seeing astonishing growth. The Economist explained why: Pizza became popular in America after World War 2 when soldiers returned from Italy and spread it to the masses. People (mistakenly) assume that pizza is healthier than other fast food as it contains what is seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-12198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chicago-deep-dish1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12203,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions\/12203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}