How to Read Our Numbered Pizza Menu
An explainer for the numbered pan pizza menu at Top Pizza & Spaghetti House. The numbers are long-standing ordering shorthand — regulars ask for a large 14 and mean pepperoni. The list runs from simple single-topping pies to loaded combinations, includes vegetarian numbers like the cheese and mushroom pies, and keeps the old-school anchovy pizza on the board for the loyalists.
Listen to a regular phone in an order and you will hear code: a large 14, a medium 2. The numbered board has worked that way since 1968, and once you can read it, you order faster too.
The Numbers Are Shorthand
Each number is a fixed combination on our hand-tossed pan crust. Number 14 is pepperoni. Number 2 is ham and mushroom. The number never changes its meaning, which is the whole point — it is a contract between the kitchen and the people who have ordered the same pie for years.
The List Climbs From Simple to Loaded
Read the board top to bottom and the pies get busier. The low numbers stay near one or two toppings — ham, cheese, pepperoni and ham. The teens and twenties stack combinations, up to loaded pies like number 13, the all-dressed with pepperoni, green pepper, mushroom, and anchovy.
The Vegetarian Numbers
Meatless eaters have their own lane: number 4 (cheese), 6 (tomato, green pepper, onion, mushroom), 7 (mushroom and green pepper), 11 (mushroom), 23 (spinach and feta), and 25 (feta, green pepper, black olives, tomato, and onion).
The Anchovy Holdout
Number 12 is the anchovy pie, and it stays on the board for the loyalists who know exactly what they want. Most menus dropped theirs long ago. Ours kept its number.
If no number matches your craving, that is what Build Your Own is for.
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