Pizza places brace for Super Bowl rush

So many calls to Papa John’s in Marietta are expected on Super Bowl Sunday that fully staffed won’t even cut it for the business – they’ve hired extra workers just for the day.

The 3,200-restaurant Papa John’s chain expects to ship more than 2 million pounds of cheese and 350,000 pounds of pepperoni through its distribution center, involving 300,000 miles of travel or 1.3 round trips to the moon, according to Tony Thompson, president of Papa John’s Food Service.

The Domino’s Pizza chain expects to deliver more than 9 million slices of pizza Sunday.

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