Costco pizza question

starlily313

Suppose you need to feed approximately 125 college kids after they spent all morning working at a community service event. How many Costco pizzas would you need to buy?

Don't ask me how I ended up in charge of figuring this out.

 

weemz

40?

This is my guess if the pizzas have eight slices each, and each person eats two or three slices (which, in my head, counts as 2.5).

125 x 2.5 = 312.5

312.5 / 8 = 39.0625

starlily313

I thought the pizzas had more than 8 slices? I know they are 18" in diameter and the slices don't seem as big as 8 slices would suggest. But I haven't been to a Costco in forever.

Young_Love

This is a very tasty word problem.

I do think the Costco pizzas are a little bigger than average.

KaliChick

I want to say we had 5 Costco pizzas to feed 48 kids.  So I would think you'll need 20-30 for 125 college kids.  Remember college kids are usually hungry! haha

Young_Love

OMG, there really is a blog for everything:

http://addictedtocostco.com/

starlily313

I found this online too: 8 large pieces or 16 smaller ones. If you buy a slice of pizza, you get one of the large pieces.

Crap. I think our budget estimate was way off.

LuckyYoungBride

Costco pizzas are HUGE. I think it's 10 slices per pizza and those slices are MASSIVE. I don't know if they'd be able to eat more than 2 slices. I'd get 25-30 to be safe.

weemz

Considering all that's been posted, I adjust my guess to 30.

starlily313

Thanks everyone! We originally anticipated maybe 50-70 people coming to this event. The current count is 130.

weemz

Oh, boy.  That's a LOT more people!