Pizza fans could spend over €60,000 on the food over their lifetime

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A poll of 2,000 adults in the UK who regularly purchase pizza found they'll eat it seven times a month on average.

This includes a combination of takeaway and shop-bought pizzas – amounting to £70 (€82) a month or more than £750 (€874) a year.

Commissioned by Chicago Town, the study also found 35 per cent consider the dish to be the UK’s favourite fast food.

Pizza brings people together

However, the study found slow delivery times and poor-quality service mean more and more pizza fans are opting for a home cooked version.

Rachel Bradshaw, spokesperson for Chicago Town Takeaway pizza - which can be delivered to your door via grocery service Gorillas and cooked at home, within 30 minutes - said: “Pizza is all about getting together.

"Whether it’s a midweek treat with the family, or with friends over a game of football at the weekend.”

More than half (56 per cent) said they generally wait an hour or more for their takeaway treat and just seven per cent feel it always arrives on time, without fail.

And half usually receive pizza that is ‘warm or lukewarm’, with only five per cent getting theirs over the threshold ‘piping hot’.

As many as 80 per cent of those polled through OnePoll have also had a pizza or cancelled mysteriously somewhere between the takeaway shop and their home.

Money spent on takeaway pizzas by the average pizza fan

In a lifetime: £42,487 (€49,514)

In a year: £675 (€786)

A month: £56 (€65)

Money spent on shop-bought pizzas by the average pizza fan

In a lifetime: £10,437 (€12,163)

In a year: £166 (€193)

In a month: £14 (€16)

TOTAL LIFETIME SPEND: £52,924 (€61,677)

Via SWNS