Other forms: pizzerias
Craving a baked crust topped with sauce, vegetables, and melty mozzarella? You might want to visit a pizzeria, a shop where pizzas are made!
A restaurant that makes and sells pizzas is a pizzeria. While the name may sound Italian, it's an American invention dating from the 1940s, influenced by the word cafeteria. Though they weren't referred to this way until the mid-20th century, the earliest pizzerias opened in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York in 1905. Since then, Americans have embraced pizzerias, consuming about three billion pizzas per year by some estimates.