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Do You Like Pizza?

The global financial downturn has hit many businesses hard. In places like Melbourne and across Australia pizza is becoming a growing comfort to us all, even in our times of need.

When the economy starts to turn, there are always those industries that keep looking up. Across Australia, the industry is strengthening, but in the south the market is moving in the favour of Melbourne Pizza Delivery. The pizza marketplace is one of the booming industries as we speak.

While the luxury industry has started to struggle and Australians tighten their purse strings, the pizza industry has fared quite well according to an article published earlier this year in an Aussie article. Considered an low-priced pleasure, Aussies turn to their number one comfort food in these tough economic times more and more - and pizza is one of our last affordable small pleasures. By January of last year, takeaway foods were up in sales by more than 11% over the previous year, and by the halfway mark Domino's reported an actual increase in pizza sales of almost 3%. Actually, Domino's was hiring while others were firing, just to fill the need for pizza stores.

Do take away customers prefer to order pizza from home or make it at home? By far the majority prefer not to learn tips to make pizza dough. Ordering is much preferred. So what will you have with your pizza? And what do we like with our pizza? But of course, a good, cold beer. The brewing industry has grown right alongside the biggest pizza names, claiming soaring profits of over 2% per quarter, and over a $411 million half-year profit for The Foster's Group, which holds an estimated 52% of the market share for beer in Australia.

When times are tough, the tough keep going, as these statistics easily show. So, so what if you've cut out your nights out on the town? You still have the comfort of good food, good colleagues, and a lot of spare time up your sleeve, now you don't need to cook!