United States-Pizza Hut.

UNITED STATES-PIZZA HUT.

Football fans will turn their eyes to Tampa on February 1, but for the employees at more than 6,200 Pizza Hut restaurants across the country, their attention will be tuned to the kitchens and the phone lines.

As football prepares to crown a new champion, Pizza Hut prepares for the company’s biggest day of the year, one in which approximately 2.5 million orders are placed for pizza, pasta and wings.

Each year on football’s big day, the Pizza Hut system sees an average 55% increase in business over a typical Sunday. To put all those sales into perspective, Pizza Hut pulled together some staggering stats that demonstrate how a hungry nation of football fans gets fed for the big game:

Pizza Hut will sell enough pizza to cover more than 50 football fields.