Pizza locations close to the Pentagon received a spike in enterprise over this previous week of worldwide warfare – and one social media account might have really predicted the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear websites.
On Saturday, June 21, at 7:13 p.m. EST – shortly earlier than President Donald Trump introduced through Reality Social of the U.S. bunker-buster assault, Pentagon Pizza Report tracked a “HIGH exercise [of sales] on the closest Papa Johns to the Pentagon.”
@PenPizzaReport‘s account is devoted to “open-source monitoring of pizza spot exercise across the Pentagon (and different locations).” The X deal with went reside final August — months earlier than the 2024 election — and it already has over 203,000 followers.
One native pizza operation additionally confirmed a giant increase in visitors throughout the wee hours of Monday evening, simply as ceasefire talks between Iran and Israel had been coming to mild. Pizzato Pizza, the year-old Lyon Park pie store situated a four-minute drive from the Pentagon, stays open till 3 a.m. (Close by Domino’s and Papa Johns, in the meantime, shut at midnight.) Pizzato counts spicy vodka pepperoni and rooster barbecue pizza as a few of its hottest orders. Associate Ali Hatim runs Mumbai Darbar Indian Delicacies in Alexandria, so there’s additionally butter rooster and rooster tikka pizzas (2626 N. Pershing Drive). We, The Pizza, the chain from High Chef star Spike Mendelsohn, in addition to Excessive Pizza and space Domino’s outposts additionally continued to expertise a gross sales increase on Tuesday afternoon.
Pizza seems to be the pre-strike meal of alternative for prime U.S. navy officers who’re hunkered down within the Pentagon, per the Guardian. Deliveries to the high-profile Arlington deal with reportedly doubled proper earlier than the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, and jumped once more earlier than Operation Desert Storm in 1991. After all, there wasn’t any social media round again then to trace such surges.
The five-sided construction is house to at least one pie possibility, Mosaic Pizza Firm, however hours are solely 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Pentagon’s prolonged concessions roster exhibits a 5 Guys is coming quickly to its meals court docket.
