Why are pizza boxes square when the pizza is round?

Answer 1

easier to make square things

Answer 2

It hasn't become economical to produce a round style of box. Packaging plays a big role in the pizza business and anything that can keep the price down without reducing the quality of a great pizza is money the pizzeria can put in the bank.
For many years pizzas came in paper bags, because the cost of those square pizza boxes was too high. If technology finds a way to produce a round style pizza container, it will be just a matter of time before the cost becomes efficient, and cost effective enough to use it. A gimmick like this, though may be what the world is looking for,...so who knows :o)

Answer 3

Very good question, have a star. However, I have no idea why round pizzas go in square boxes. Reminds me of that old saying: You can't fit a square peg into a round hole, unless it is a pizza - SMILE.

Answer 4

Well pizza are tossed or rolled or how ever they make the pizza sometimes it's a bit larger than the pan so to make enough room for the pizza they put it in a square box.

Answer 5

often wondered that one myself its probably easier to get a round pizza in a square box

Answer 6

When the boxes are made, they are flat. When the pizza shops get them, they have to assemble them. It's easier to assemble a square box, than a round one.

Answer 7

In Aberdeen there is a takeaway called The Tasty Tattie which has round pizza boxes. Genius really.

Answer 8

manufactering of boxes / cardboard storage and transport facilities have been using the square for many years. not only are the machines designed to make it that shape.. it's already cheaper.. (why change a good thing) and it would prove to not only be costly to make a special box in mass but the soft curves would prove less than functional and durable like the sharp, heavy duty angles such as we already use.

not only would we have to get designers but add to the factories the new device but new equipment and it would cost more in the long run... and yet we'd have a more faulty product... angles have proven not only in cardboard but in metals, plastics and other elements to be more durable.

besides squares are more easier to make into objects that don't need other applications to make it easily accessable. such as it'll be a bit harder to open a round box with a pizza in it than the flip top box. sure it's prettier but not as efficient.

OH and not all pizzas are round...


i doubt a pizza delivery guy is going to appreciate the round and very clumbsy boxes to transport, they'll slide and fall much more than a square, which is a very stackable, easily to fit anywhere and easy to grab without much complication design... to human and machine.

ever hear of a puzzle made completely of circles....? nah, they just don't fit as well as angles...


and angles are easier to compress also.. you just can't store as many curves as you could angular objects... either collapsed for storage or expanded for use.



:D

Answer 9

Its cheaper to make a square box then a round one.

Answer 10

It is cheaper to make a square box than a round one.

Answer 11

Perhaps due to the overly complicated origami-style folds one would need to make in cardboard to get that box round - in combination with the difficulty of pizza makers to toss their dough up and have it return in square form.