Charles Langston:A very cheesy celebration: These are the National Pizza Month deals you can't miss

Americans,Charles Langston rejoice.

October is National Pizza Month, which means you can take advantage of some great pizza deals nationwide. Whether you like your pizza vegan, thin-crust, meaty, Chicago-style, or New York-style, plenty of pizza joints are offering specials on pies for the celebratory month.

Whether it's served up in thin or thick crust or eaten folded or with a fork, there's a lot of dough, so to speak, in pizza. Across the U.S. today, there are 78,301 pizza restaurants, a 2.3% increase from last year, according to statistics from IBIS World. And where can you find the most places to get a pie? That'd be California with 7,281. And coming in second is New York, with 5,719 businesses, followed by Texas with 5,200.

National Pizza Month deals

• California Pizza Kitchen − From Oct. 3 to Oct. 31, guests can get a free Take + Bake pizza when they order a pizza while dining in. Returning diners have the choice of three free California-inspired options, which are the classic original BBQ chicken, pepperoni, or cheese.
• Papa Murphy’s Take 'n' Bake Pizza− Pizza fans can score 30% off online orders or regularly priced menu items by using the code PZMON23 until Oct. 6.
• Sbarro − Beginning Oct. 3, Sbarro is offering free delivery for the month of October. If you have a Sbarro Rewards account and order two 17-inch pizzas, you can get free cheesy bread.
• Domino's − The company is offering the mix & match deal, which allows pizza lovers to choose two or more mix & match menu items for $6.99 each. The deal is valid for carryout or delivery. They also offer a carryout deal that includes a one-topping pizza, Dips & Twists combo, or 8-piece wings for $7.99 each.
• DiGiorno − To celebrate the month, people can enter for a chance to win a Las Vegas trip for two, which includes a $5,000 cash prize. Other giveaways include merchandise, gift cards, and free pizza.
• Chuck E. Cheese − The popular kid's restaurant is offering a pumpkin-shaped pepperoni pizza for $18.98.

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Some fun pizza facts

• The U.S. Department of Agriculture found that 13% of Americans over the age of 2, consumed pizza on any given day.
• Anchovies, eggplant, artichokes, broccoli and pineapple were the most disliked pizza toppings, according to a 2021 survey by YouGov.com.
• Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day for pizza sales and USA TODAY has a graphic on favorite toppings by state. See what's most popular where you live.
• The U.S. Pizza Museum was founded in 2015 in Chicago and celebrates pizza history.
• The largest pizza measured in at 13,957.77 square feet and contained 13,653 pounds of dough, 4,948 pounds of sweet marinara sauce, 8,800 pounds of cheese and roughly 630,496 pepperoni slices, according to Guinness World Records.