But experience during previous government crises has caused some pizza companies to come up with their own crisis plans. The huge demand has inevitably led to slower delivery times.
Kim, "and a typical Wednesday is about $600 or $700." "Wednesday we did about $2,000," said store manager U.H. Armand's on Capitol Hill has been working double time to fill orders to such customers as CNN's local bureau, as well as to congressional offices. Other capital pizza purveyors say their delivery lines are lighting up as well. Indeed, Meeks said, Iraq and the "impizzament crisis," as he calls it, have the White House in a red zone panic mode.Ĭapitol Hill set its previous Domino's pizza record during the 1995 government shutdown, consuming $9,100 worth, but in the past three days has beat that record with $11,600 worth of orders. In those three days, the White House placed $2,600 in orders.Ĭompare that with the past three days, during which White House staffers downed $3,100 worth of pies. Lewinsky also figured in another pizza-delivery frenzy: the previous three-day record for White House orders to Domino's was set after the Lewinsky story broke in mid-January. Had they not shared that pizza, history may well have turned out very differently. Lewinsky, an unpaid intern, was working at the White House because other employees had been furloughed. Lewinsky and President Clinton, according to Lewinsky's daybook.
17, 1995, during the government shutdown, was "pizza night" for Monica L. The White House and Congress broke their previous three-day record for pizza deliveries, Meeks said, though at the Pentagon, the record set during the Persian Gulf War still stands.Įxperts like Meeks like to remind people that much of the present turmoil in Washington can be traced to pizza. The index's rise this week is propelled by large numbers of White House and Capitol Hill types, Pentagon staffers and media folks all working into the wee hours and ordering pizza to sustain them. "It's going haywire," said Frank Meeks, owner of 59 Domino's franchises in the Washington area and the capital's unofficial pizza historian. This week – with the confluence of impeachment hearings in Congress and war management over at the Pentagon – the index is shattering records. With Capital in Panic, Pizza Deliveries SoarĪn aide to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) carries a stack of pizzas during the day-long impeachment debate on Friday.Ĭall it the Washington pizza index: The bigger the crisis and the more time that government staffers hole up in their offices, the more pizza they eat. : With Capital in Panic, Pizza Deliveries Soar
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