Most restaurant menu items are sold and served as individual servings, like a hamburger or an order of chicken wings. Pizza is a multiple serving item. Family and friends meet at a restaurant. They order a pizza to share slices from the pizza. Before the Coronavirus, pizzas served at restaurants were typically cut on a flat cutting board, then served on a plastic serving tray. The other popular option restaurants would serve the pizza was an aluminum plate, which the pizza was also cut on. Both, the plastic serving tray and the aluminum serving plate allow very little room for the patrons to handle the serving devices to move towards or away from them without their fingers touching the pizza.
As well, These two popular methods of cutting and serving pizza to restaurant patrons present a very common and awkward situation. The slices aren’t cut all the way through the pizza crust. The patrons are faced with figuring out how to, “tear apart” the slices of pizza.
As we begin to ease ourselves back into dining at restaurants, restaurants are faced with the daunting task of sanitizing and cleaning their store’s surfaces to prevent people transferring the virus by human contact. Should the pizza and restaurant industry consider
alternative solutions to serving pizza for safety and well being of their patrons?