Agreed. This sounds more like 3-5 pizza team.

"There is no cannibalism in Amazon. And when I say, 'none', I mean, well, there is a certain amount."

I'm part of a team of 6-10 people and I might be the only one who eats carbs.

It's definitely more about the theory of a small team than literal pizza.

In reality seems more like a 6-10 pizza team... /s

How big are your pizzas?

Italian pizzas are sized for one person; I think that's true for a large part of the world.

In Poland, a large pizza will make two people full, and four people each wishing for "just one more slice".

Can we talk diameters? In the US at the big 3 pizza chains a "large" pizza is approximately 14" in diameter, usually cut into 8 slices. It should satisfy 2-4 adults.

It’s not just diameter - Italian pizza is thin and light, American pizza is deep and heavy. Hence why America moved towards “sharing” formats, because eating a whole dish is challenging for a single person.

There is thin crust vs Chicago deep dish and “Sicilian”. Some thin crus places are really thin.

There is also the matter of toppings. You can have traditional like four seasons, margherita, or you can have bbq chicken with eggs and potato topping.

Teams ought to be grouped on the same religious wavelength (for/against) regarding pineapple and anchovies. Diversity in this respect would be quite deleterious to morale.

I've had "shepherd's pie" pizza before. They used mashed potatoes for the sauce. It was pretty tasty, but I could feel the carbs.

That's too vague because American pizza includes thin crust, regular, stuffed-crust, and Chicago-style (thick, pan-style). You gotta be more specific when ordering. ;)

In Poland, when you order from pizza chains (as opposed to regular restaurants, which tend to have overpriced, undersized and undertopped "italian" pizzas), the "large" size circles around 40cm in diameter (which Google tells me is around 15.7"), cut into 8 pieces. Thickness varies, but you usually don't get very thin pizzas unless you ask specially for that option.

14" is closer to medium size, which depending on earlier meals may just about satisfy two adults, or leave them hungry. With four adults, I can only see it leaving them wanting another pizza.

Pretty sure I could eat that myself.

I just checked one of the big chains. A single slice of plain cheese pizza is 295 calories. So an 8 slice "large" pizza would be 2,360 calories. Don't get me wrong, I've done it before, but that's a lot of food for an average adult.

I Guess it also depends if it’s a thin base, or pan.

I just love food. Sometimes hard to stop eating. Especially when I go taiwan or japan. I always put on a lot of weight.

Assuming that's accurate (I feel they may be overshooting here, but I guess it depends on the chain), that's little more than daily requirement for a single adult.

It matches my experience - I can keep myself fully fed for a whole day on a single large pizza. It also reinforces my point - such a pizza might suffice as a dinner for two, but will hardly satisfy more people.

Even area per person wouldn't cut it. 0) Kilocalories and 1) g of protein per cm^3 per person perhaps.

Just checked one of the big chains, a single slice of cheese pizza is 295 calories, or 2,360 per pizza.

edit: here we just say calories, but it's meant "kilocalories"

Weight would be a better measure. Over here, large pizzas can be in excess of 1kg.

14" == 35.56 cm

Should be asking "how big are your team members?"

At amazon, you'd praise whatever deity you believe in, because you never get free food there. Except for coffee.

That used to be true, but it has changed a bit over the years. One day in 2004, some team from Microsoft was supposed to visit for a long meeting. The Microsofties knew that they weren't going to get lunch at Amazon, so they ordered their own catered lunch to be delivered to the meeting room. Then they had to cancel for some reason, but the food was still delivered. Word got out and the Amazon employees on the 8th floor descended on the food like a swarm of locusts. They had never experienced free food at work before, nor would they ever experience it again. Except for the time Steve Raichle showed up to promote his book, and set up some kind of barbeque equipment on the lawn behind the PacMed building, handing out free barbeque. People waited in line for more than 30 minutes, again because the concept of free food at work was totally unheard of.

I worked mostly in their NYC office until 2014 and never got free food, except for really bad pizza once over my 5 year tenure.