• Question: why does a round pizza come in a square box?

    Asked by SkyeB to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Traditionally you make pizza flat by rotating the dough, so it assume a round shape. It is much easier to cut a piece of box to have a square shape that it to have a round one.

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      I think its just because a square box is easier and more cost effective to make, transport flat-packed and assemble

    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      You can’t actually stack circular boxes side by side any more efficiently than you can square boxes whose side is the same length as the diameter of the circle — circles take up the same total space but don’t use all of it! Since squares are easier to make, you may as well stick with them…

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