--- title: Price Data Shows Ordering Bigger Pizza Is Always Better Deal description: Go on, just do it canonical: https://time.com/10555/math-proves-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-27T16:15:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:21.601Z og:title: Price Data Shows Ordering Bigger Pizza Is Always Better Deal og:description: Go on, just do it og:url: https://time.com/10555/math-proves-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pizza og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Price Data Shows Ordering Bigger Pizza Is Always Better Deal twitter:description: Go on, just do it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Math Proves You Should Always Order the Bigger Pizza by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 27, 2014 4:15 PM UTC  Sausage pizza being served Sausage pizza being servedGetty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 27, 2014 4:15 PM UTC If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that pizza is delicious. Everyone loves pizza. Like, the United States government even took the time recently to [prove that](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/10/us-government-pizza-consumption-report/). So, that’s one of the reasons why you should always opt for the bigger pie when you’re out at a pizzeria with friends (or alone — we don’t judge) so that you simply have more delicious pizza to enjoy. The other reason, though, is that it’s pretty much always a much better deal. Some heroes at NPR [crunched the numbers](http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/282132576/74-476-reasons-you-should-always-get-the-bigger-pizza), looking at 74,476 prices from 3,678 pizza places across the U.S. They point out that a 16-inch pizza, for example, is really four times the size of an eight-inch pizza, though most people would probably think it would be double. On average, consumers spend $16.59 for a 16-inch pie. To get the same amount of pizza, they’d have to spend $33 on four eight-inch pies. If math isn’t your thing, just trust us on this one. It’s a much, much better deal. So next time you’re out for pizza just go ahead and opt for the largest size. Can’t argue with math! ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/10555/math-proves-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/10555/math-proves-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza/"},"headline":"Math Proves You Should Always Order the Bigger Pizza","datePublished":"2014-02-27T16:15:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:21.601Z","description":"Go on, just do it","url":"https://time.com/10555/math-proves-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Pizza","Science topic","Math"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ba5bdf0dc390f01/69868362e8524b108660196b/149615739.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pizza","caption":"Pizza","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/10555/math-proves-you-should-always-order-the-bigger-pizza/","name":"Math Proves You Should Always Order the Bigger Pizza"}}]}] ```