The DC "Pizza Index"

[NightWatcher]

Do you remember when we were on the verge of wars, late night military strikes, government shutdowns, or other big events out of DC how pizza joints would report record pizza deliveries, indicative of a lot of people working all nighters in their offices?

I wonder if there are any informal reports these days about events in DC. Does anyone know what Mueller's favorite delivery foods are, or what shops deliver more to the J Edgar Hoover Building or Capitol? Does the McDonalds nearest the White House go Def Con 1 when trump's on a tear? Does anyone know if there are any other similar indicators?

from Dec 1998

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/pizza121998.htm

Call it the Washington pizza index: The bigger the crisis and the more time that government staffers hole up in their offices, the more pizza they eat.

This week – with the confluence of impeachment hearings in Congress and war management over at the Pentagon – the index is shattering records.

"It's going haywire," said Frank Meeks, owner of 59 Domino's franchises in the Washington area and the capital's unofficial pizza historian.

The index's rise this week is propelled by large numbers of White House and Capitol Hill types, Pentagon staffers and media folks all working into the wee hours and ordering pizza to sustain them. The White House and Congress broke their previous three-day record for pizza deliveries, Meeks said, though at the Pentagon, the record set during the Persian Gulf War still stands.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Mueller's favorite food is Trump's lunch.

[TeamPooka]

3. congratulations on winning the internet today.

[underpants]

2. Dominoes? I thought this story was about pizza.

[rurallib]

4. !